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...slang for smoking speed in Thai is keng rot, literally racing, the same word used to describe the motorcycle rallying the boys do every weekend. Their lives revolve around these two forms of keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night, in Big's room in his parent's house, on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba...
...beds. While the most powerful tools for fighting addiction in the West?12-step programs derived from Alcoholics Anonymous?are available in Asia, their dissemination and implementation do not reach much of the region. In Thailand, for example, Narcotics Anonymous meetings are far more common in English than in Thai. But it is precisely these sorts of support groups that can determine whether an addict can stay away from speed. "On good days, I am two people," says Cai Zhoushen, a speed addict who has been sent to a Kunming rehab center three times. "One who wants to quit speed...
Movies, along with most cultural activities, were proscribed in 1975 by the conquering Khmer Rouge. Hundreds of actors, writers and directors were executed. When the regime finally fell, the theaters slowly reopened and a brief renaissance followed, but the industry soon faced another threat: cheap Thai videos and television soap operas. Five years ago, the last commercial movie house in Phnom Penh closed...
...that I had no idea they would object. After half an hour the men calm down but the boss still isn't happy. Slowly, Chay starts to talk, glancing at his boss regularly. "The network is huge," Chay says. The weapons he buys are stored in warehouses on the Thai-Cambodian border, then moved by truck to Burma or other destinations. "Usually my trucks don't even get stopped for checks. It's easy to bribe people. Who does not want money...
...buyers but from my syndicate contacts, I know that it goes to Acehnese rebel groups, Burmese minority groups like the Karen, Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines and the rebel groups in Indonesia." Since he is playing such a dangerous game, doesn't he worry about getting caught? "The Thai army openly sells weapons," he says. "They are the biggest source of protection for the people involved in this business. What more do we want...