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...Sochua says she's concerned about exploitation?not prostitution, which she wants to legalize. About half of Cambodia's prostitutes were forced into the trade against their will. Some, like 15-year-old Srey Aun, were sold by their own mothers. Aun was 12 when her mother took her from her home province of Mondolkiri to Phnom Penh where, after some haggling, she sold her for $150. She spent the next three years locked in a room serving six to eight men a day?Cambodian police, Thai businessmen, French tourists?until she escaped...
...sexual chocolate. The bakery gets requests for just about any occasion. "We once got [someone to request a cake for] breast implants. Also, a vasectomy. We drew stitches on the penis," our insider confides. Even St. Patrick's Day gets a nod from Sweet-N-Nasty; the Le-prick-aun depicts one of the wee people with a none-too-wee piece. What exactly makes a cake "erotic?" Where do you draw the line between carnal and just disgusting? How do you keep the staff of the Harvard Lampoon out? Answer: you don't. The bakery does its best...
...before the final assault on the capital, with rockets landing less than a block from his apartment, Seng and his stroke-crippled wife asked a relative to take their two boys and two girls to a nearby hospital, thinking they might be safer there. The boys, Neang, 14, and Aun, 6, returned home later that afternoon as the rocket attacks subsided. But the two frightened daughters, Seng Ly, 9, and Theary, 12, stayed put. When their father went to pick them up two days later, they were gone, swept up in the first stage of the forced evacuation...
...under arrest for smuggling, possession of weapons and insurgency," shouted Colonel Thong-Aun Charoen-sam. "Lay down your guns and surrender...
...with the sight of new cities, new highways and railroads, burgeoning new industries, happy people, smiling children. Crime has all but vanished, slums are clean and filled with bookstores and nurseries, soldiers are as dedicated as young priests, everyone conscientiously does his daily t'ai chi ch'aun calisthenics. Even the Yellow River, now dammed and tamed like everything else in China, runs blue-"blue as the Aegean," Snow says...