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Wedding Customs around the World

A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (offering, ring(s), symbolic item, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader. Philippines: In Philippines the wedding custom is that the bride cannot meet the groom a day before their wedding. If they do so it means bad luck according to them. There is another belief that siblings cannot get married on the same year because according to them one will meet an accident if they do so. Japan: In Japan bride and groom takes nine sips of sake, then they become husband and wife after the first sip, both of them take a sip at the same time, they are very careful while putting the cup down on the table at the same time. Sindh (Pakistan) : In...

Should there be any sort of ban on the internet?

All of us know the PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) has imposed a ban on YouTube® in the country as well as on many explicit websites. But should they be banned? Does PTA have the right to choose what people watch and what they don't? In fact, does ANYONE have the right to impose such control? These are questions we face often enough in this era of cyber communication. Questions that need extensive debating upon and the VoY sought to provide just such a forum for students of the university to raise their voices. According to Hassan Akhtar (runner up), such bans are pointless: there are proxies available online and anyone with a little know-how of such things can easily access blocked content; then again, there is always the question of 'free will' and being able to decide for oneself what has and has not to be done. And it not just the more abstract aspects of the bans that seem wrong, economics and education are deeply affected by such bans too. The ...

What Successful People Read In The Morning

Staying informed is a constant struggle for most of us, let alone people with high-profile, high-pressure jobs. There's usually not time to leisurely read a favorite paper over coffee. Yet catching up on news is an important part of what's often a very early morning for many of the world's most successful people. Now we would like everyone to read Business Insider in the morning (or the afternoon), but it turns out some very important people have their own favorite sources of news. Warren Buffett starts his days with an assortment of national and local news. The billionaire investor tells CNBC he reads the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, USA Today, the Omaha World-Herald, and the American Banker in the mornings. That's a hefty list to get through. ...

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