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UNICEF surveys indicate that 30% to 35% of all sex workers in the Mekong subregion of Southeast Asia are between 12 and 17 years of age. Women and girls from poor rural families make up the majority of sex workers in Southeast Asia, says Bissex. "Even in situations where a child knowingly goes into this, it's not a choice a child can make, or ever would make if they had other [economic] options...
...Four years later, Dengue Fever traveled to Cambodia with their friend John Pirozzi, an American director and cinematographer. That trip is the subject of Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, a DVD/CD combination released in April. Shot in 10 days with a small, Cambodian crew, Sleepwalking is part travelogue, part ode, and an affectionate look at a band that straddles worlds. In front of a Cambodian crowd, Chhom, who spoke almost no English when she met the Holtzmans, is finally at home, while the band tags along, alien, outsized and bumbling good-naturedly through the simmering streets of Phnom Penh. Cross-cultural...
...Read "Cruise in Style along Laos' Mekong River...
...Nava Mekong launched this year and sails twice daily, journeying two hours upstream between high hills forested with teak trees, and past fishermen casting their nets from tiny craft. Among the destinations are the Pak Ou caves, where a brace of limestone grottoes houses thousands of Buddhist statues and images. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...Nava Mekong is owned by the Apple Tree Group, who are also behind a 33-room boutique hotel in Luang Prabang, the Villa Maly, www.villa-maly.com. Either the hotel or local tour operators can arrange the cruise, which costs $35 per head for lunch or dinner. The earlier sailing departs at 10.30 a.m. and makes for the Pak Ou caves. The later departure weighs anchor at 5.30 p.m., and stops at a Laotian village for dinner and dancing...