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...pessimism is borne of experience. Last May, a police raid of a brothel in Cambodia's Svay Pak netted 17 Vietnamese girls, of whom 11 were under the age of 18. Yet Legros points out that none of their pimps were arrested. "They were tipped off," he says. Worse was to come: the girls were ruled to be illegal immigrants rather than victims of human trafficking and were sentenced to three months in jail. Thai Senator Wallop Tangkananurak, chairman of the legislature's Committee on Women, the Elderly and Youth, remarks, "The problem of child prostitution and child abuse...
...Indeed, as TIME wrapped up an interview with Taufik at his home on a recent Saturday morning, Jacob could be seen waiting in the wings, tying the shoes of Taufik's three-year-old granddaughter and preparing Taufik's bags to be carried to the car. "I've known Pak Taufik since 1997," Jacob remarks, but says he has "no comment" on the relationship between the two. Taufik says that his friendship with Jacob did not influence the government's plan last year to substantially ease repayment terms for Syamsul Nursalim and other businessmen who owe the country billions...
...TIME: Many people say you wield considerable influence. Is that true? Taufik: Whenever there is a project involving a lot of money, people say Pak Taufik is involved. I don't feel I have any enemies. But there are people that have interests, and I knew I would become the target. The President is quiet; I'm the one who likes to get around. Whenever I travel and visit the regions, people talk and think I'm up to something. It's unfortunate and tiring but that's the risk I have to face...
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...prison?and Keeler famously protested his conviction by throwing a chair in court and screaming that he'd been promised an acquittal if he paid the judge $3,000. Cambodia has an estimated 20,000 child prostitutes. An hour with a 14-year-old at the squalid Svay Pak sex district costs about $5. A virgin can be deflowered for as little...