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...DEPORTED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, a.k.a. GARY GLITTER, 58, 1970s British glam rocker, after his December detention on unspecified charges; from Phnom Penh. In 1999, Glitter was convicted in Britain of downloading child pornography. Last summer, the Cambodian authorities asked Glitter to leave the country after he was found living with a young girl...
Cohen, a Crimson editor and a women’s studies concentrator, said Harvard’s cultural studies courses partly contributed to her decision to work in Phnom Penh as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily News, where half of the staff writes in English and the other half in Khmer—a language she will be learning...
...many observers the problem remains more acute than ever. In a hard-hitting speech in Phnom Penh last 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...
...typically true, in part because brothels throughout the region are often protected by corrupt police and government officials with a vested interest in making only occasional, symbolic busts in which prostitutes?but no pimps or customers?are arrested. Says Pierre Legros, founder of a child rights NGO in Phnom Penh: "You can't change a system that is rotten to the core, no matter how good your legislation or how much pressure is applied...
...every major golf title except for the U.S. Open, of which he was runner-up four times. CHARGED. SAM BITH, 69, former Khmer Rouge general, with the 1994 kidnapping and murder of three backpackers-Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet; in Phnom Penh...