Wednesday, December 3, 2008

News And Opinions...

1.Anti government protests are still protesting in Bangkok's airport.There are more than 10,000 people stranded in Bangkok and can't take the flight back to their own countries as the airport is closed,the government has no choice but to send small vans to the city to bring the stranded tourists back to their country or send them to the another airport to take the other country's airport.

Opinions:
I think that we should not go to Bangkok as it's a very dangerous place.There are a lot of protestersprotesting in the Bangkok's airport, if we were unlucky we might get hurt or burnt,and if we were there, we would be stranded at Bangkok and had to wait for hours,queuing up for your turn to sit on the small van to go back to your own country.

2.Mumbai Terrorism attack.Mumbai 's two hotel has been attacked by terrorist.Both of the
hotel's attackers used bombs and machine guns.There are more than one hundred people died in the hotel.Ms Lo Hwei Yen,a lawyer lived in one of the hotel 17th floor.She was the first Singaporean to be shot died in the hotel and was being held hostage by the terrorists, the terrorist said that they will not kill women but to hold them hostage, but they break their promise when more policemen came to the hotel and surround them.The terrorists started shooting on the people who was held hostage(Most of the people held hostage were women).
Unfortunately,the terrorist shot just right throught Ms Lo Hwei Yen's head and fractured her skull.She was found died on the 10th floor.Luckily, some Singaporeans escaped from the hotel and arrived at the Singapore's airport safe and sound.

Option:
Mumbai(India)'s terrorist attack made many people afraid to go to Mumbai(India) for a holiday.
Ms Lo Hwei Yen's husband said that the last week when he and Ms Lo Hwei Yen was together was the best week of his life, the last phone call he received from Ms Lo Hwei Yen was that she was kept hostage.And he said she was a brave Singaporean.One of the Singaporean who survived and was now in Singapore just ran out of his room with his laptop on his hands and he ran as fast as his legs would carry him.The Singaporean surviver said that when each bomb goes off the building will shake.

1 comment:

tsooc said...

Dear Gladwin,

1) You wrote some opinions here. Good. You can comment on the bad effects of such protests on Bangkok's image internationally. What will tourists think before visiting Bangkok? How would this affect the livelihood of the people who work in the tourism industry in Bangkok?

2) What you wrote are merely what was reported. Thus they can't be considered as your opinions. Do think through again and rewrite your opinions for this part. Why don't you read others' opinions before redoing? You can comment on the thoughts and feelings you have when you heard this news. Tell me how it affected your thoughts about Terrorism? Comment on how you think we (i.e. S'pore) should fight terrorism? What can we do? What can you do as a student?