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...Malaysian authorities deny any maltreatment of deportees. And Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar reacted angrily to the burning of his country's flag by protesters in Manila. "Have they forgotten this is the place that their countrymen earn a living?" he asked. "Is this how they show their appreciation?" To many Indonesians and Filipinos, the fact that they can no longer earn their living in Malaysia is precisely the problem...
...Manila, Philippines 10.9 million...
...week, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson charged that "Traffickers are able to operate with impunity (in Cambodia) because of inefficient law enforcement, compounded in some cases by official corruption." And Cambodia is hardly alone. Take a stroll into the Sunee Plaza in Pattaya, Thailand, or through Manila's Rajah Sulayman Park, and it's impossible not to notice girls as young as eight painted up like Barbie dolls and openly selling themselves. "Chicks, you want chicks?" asks a pimp in Manila, with a swagger that suggests he has nothing to fear from...
...good place to start the campaign might be Club Y, a sleazy haunt that Filipinas working on the strip call "a bad bar." Rosie Danan found out just how bad the week she started working there in late 1999, at the age of 16. Back home in Manila, a recruiting agency had promised Danan the job would require her merely to serve drinks and chat with customers. After she arrived in Korea?on a false passport?Club Y's mama-san took her papers away and told her the rules: she would be serving up her body as well...
...RESIGNED. TEOFISTO GUINGONA, 74, Philippine Vice President, as Foreign Minister following a disagreement with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over the deployment of U.S. troops in the southern Philippines for counterterrorism exercises; in Manila. Guingona believes the U.S. military presence is at odds with a constitutional provision barring foreign combat troops on Philippine soil...