Chengwee -Prostitute at 14, Aids activist today

Born the only daughter and the last of seven children to a village baker and his wife, she left school after just one month to hawk bread. Her father died when she was 10. Her mother remarried and took only the boys with her to Phnom Penh without her. She have to stay to look after her grandmother and helped villages harvest rice and wash clothes for tins of rice and salted fish. When she was 13, she accompanied a neighbour to PHnom Penh after he told her he knew where her mother and siblings lived. But the man abandoned her and in order to survive, she became a helper at the fruit stall. One day, a lady told her that she coud get her a job wa a prawn peeler which would earn lots. But it turn out that the lady sold her to a couple who ran a brothel near Thai border. She would have to have sex with men to pay the couples.Due to the refusal , she was locked in a tiny dark room and denied food for a week. Worst of all she was tortured by electric wires until she summits. Every day she was forced to have sex with between thiree to ten men. One day she fled from the brothel and ended up in a village and hid herself in the rubbish bin. She then reunited with her mother but due to presence of AIDs in her body, her mother throw her out of the house. A world vision trauma recovery centre helps to change her life and in the end she bacame a speaker at international conferences who inspired many listeners .

Personal comments: I felt pity for the girl of such small age but had to suffer this kind of fate of being forced into sexuality. I fet that the mother should not have abandon her daughter at the first place and even the second time they met. Even though the girl has contracted with HIV, she is still the daughter of the mother and the mother has the responsibilty of taking good care of her no matter what happens. It is really a bad experience and chidhood and it is difficult even for us to even face the crowd, yet she has the conffidence and courage to stand up and that has really inspired me. This is the type of spirit that each and every single one of us should have and to stand up again from a fall. She is really a very good role model that everyone of us should learn from!

Chengwee - Unclean water kills 4,000 daily worldwide

Polluted drinking water will kill around 1.6 million people this year unless governments around the world make a concerted effort to clean up their supplies. Over 4,000 people die each day from water-borne diseases and the death toll is not restricted to Third Word nations. It is a problem plaguing all countries.The event will bring together experts from around the world to discuss management policies, the impact of global warming, and the need to diversity water sources. Dr Bertram said that governments must anticipate long- term water shortages caused by rising demand and climate change. Leaders have to put their money where their mouths are and make good on a myriad of promises to provide affordable, clean drinking water.Governments also need to invest heavily in building and maintaining water infrastructure.There has been some progress as more people got their water through pipes. But most of the water is ''unreliable and unsafe'', s problem that Singapore avoided through good management and cutting-edge technology.

Personal comments: I believed that unclean water is a very serious problem that has been plaguing all countries even Singapore! It might influence other living organisms through food chains or even directly from the unclean water. Many was contracted with diseases due to the drinking of unclean water and some eventually dies as time goes by as well as the continual drinkage of unclean water.It would slowly affect the country's development like declining population which leads to the lackage of talents to help the society. I believed that the reason why people drinks unclean water is not because of not wanting it but is the fact that they coud not even afford to pay for clean water and the inaccessibility of getting clean water. Since then, government should do something to salvage the problem of providing affordable, clean drinking water. I am proud of my country as it has managed to avoid the problem through proper management.

Chengwee - Next target: Cut energy use

Singapore has to work hearder at cutting down energy usage- perhaps by 20 per cent to 30 per cent, as countries around the world incrasingly emphasise sustainable development. Singapore has scored relatively well on the water and land usage fronts but not on energy usage. On the government's part, it can examine policies such as using new materials to construct HDB blocks, examining new ways of designing and maintaining lifts whch currently '' use up a lot of energy '' , and installing energy-saving lights in public carparks. Singaporeans, as consumers, also have to play their part in understanding the amount of energy that their various appliances use up, going for energy-saving versions.Certainly, there are chanllenges as Singapore seeks to cut down on its energy usage. UPfront cost may be hgher, but it is all worth it.

Personal comments: I think that energy usage is an important resource that we should look up to and I agree with the view of cutting down energy usage. This helps to develop a sustainable development and then can be further improve. In order to help cut down the energy usage, we have to play a part and we can start from our own house homes. We can save energy usage even by small little things that we do like switching off the lights when we are not using. I believe that this problem if delayed, would somehow affect our living environment and many other problems would arise too. We may not be influenced by this problem nor knowing the importance of energy saving now but no one would know what would happen as time goes by. It is important that we have the mind-set of 'prevention better that cure' and thus we must work together to strike together in solving problems.

Cheng Wee- Chinese tourists warned against gambling and porn in Taiwan

Chinese visitors to Taiwan will not be allowed to gamble or engage in ''pornographic activities''. Travel agencies are also not allowed to arrange gambling, pornographic and drug-related activites harming cross-strait relations. Chinese travel agency managers went to Taiwan on a fact-finding mission to inspect tourism infrastructure such as hotels and transportation. They inspects on tourism infrastructure at the weekend example the Taiwanese Premier Liu Chao-shiuan, to check on the progress of refurbishment works. The warning was issued by the cross-strait tourism association which then lead to the sign of break-through agreements on charter flights and tourism promotion between China and Taiwan this month.

Personal comments: I think that for my point of view, it is the right thing that they warned Chinese tourists against gambling and porn in Taiwan. This will results in less people thinking about ''dirty'' stuff and into heavy gambling as they will not have to be in contract with it. All these would only ruin their future and life and they might not have a second chance to draw back into the right path again. This would even further influence their families as they would be in heavy debt and i believed many happy families' bond have been broken because of that. I think that Singapore should also imply the similiar strictness againist gambling and porn . But overall it is up to our own thinking of getting into such stuff as if you really want it, no one can stop you.