Reuters: Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists

From Reuters: Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists:

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Bethan, 56, lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie, 64.

They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."

Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.

Allie and Bethan -- who both declined to give their full names -- said they planned to spend a whole month touring Kenya's palm-fringed beaches. They would do well to avoid the country's tourism officials.

"It's not evil," said Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, when asked about the practice of older rich women traveling for sex with young Kenyan men.

"But it's certainly something we frown upon."

Us in 40 years?

Men being boys

How the hell is a girl supposed to tell the difference between someone asking a girl out as a friend and someone asking a girl out as a date?
How, I ask you?

Also, I actually had work to do today. Tomorrow's a holiday. And I've just booked my flight to Tawau, Sabah for NYE.

That's right, baby.

More good news

From NST: Get set for wireless@KL:

KUALA LUMPUR: Good news for KLites: limited wireless broadband access will be a thing of the past this time next year.

By September, they will be able to enjoy wireless broadband Internet access anytime, anywhere in the city without having to be near a hotspot; and for free, too, thanks to the KL Wireless Metropolitan Project, or wireless@kl.

It will operate on WiMax technology operating on the 2.3GHz spectrum at a speed of 512 kilobytes per second.

I believe that it will be put in place. I might even believe that it will happen next year. What I won't believe is the speed, until I see it for myself.


Follow-up on 'One step forward, two steps back'.
From NST: Saudi king pardons woman who was raped by 7 men:

RIYADH: King Abdullah has pardoned a female rape victim who had been sentenced
to six months in prison and 200 lashes for being alone with a man who was not related to her, a Saudi newspaper reported yesterday.

Thank God.

The escape of the fledgling banker

Option 1: Tawau, Sabah

To depart on 29th Dec, 7am and come back 1st Jan, 6pm. Cost at approx. RM600.
Weather forecast for next 7 days: Thunderstorms, rough seas warnings

Option 2: Langkawi, Kedah

To depart on 28th Dec, 9.15pm and come back 1st Jan, 8.15pm. Cost at approx. RM200.
Weather forecast for next 7 days: Thunderstorms.

Option 3: Copenhagen, Denmark

To depart on 28th Dec, 9.45pm and come back 2nd Jan, 7.45am. Cost at approx. RM4,800.
Weather forecast for next 5 days: Very poor.

Option 4: Amsterdam, Holland

To depart on 28th Dec, 9.45pm and come back 2nd Jan, 7.45am. Cost at approx. RM4,800.
Weather forecast for next 5 days: Good.

Option 5: Palacio, Asian Heritage Row

And I die a little inside.

On the bright side

From The Informed Reader: Is Oil headed for a Crash?:

John Cassidy has a message for consumers who are contemplating giving up their SUVs to save on gasoline: not so fast.

Oil prices, which have hovered near record levels this fall, are to set plunge 50% or more in the next two or three years, says Mr. Cassidy in CondeNast’s Portfolio magazine. The downturn could be even steeper after that — $30 a barrel oil is a distinct possibility in the not-so-distant future, he says.

Mr. Cassidy bases his prediction on one essential idea: that the steep rise in crude prices over the past four years has been prolonged enough to fundamentally alter the behavior of both oil producers and consumers.

He certainly isn’t alone in anticipating a retreat in oil prices – many economists have forecast a pullback from the lofty $90-$100 a barrel levels of the past few months to $70-$85 next year as producers ramp up output to meet demand and a slowing U.S. economy reins in consumption. But most oil watchers also say that burgeoning demand from big developing economies like China and India will keep prices from falling too far.

There you go. Good news.