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...THAILAND: Soft targets Thailand has many. They read like a roll call of Asia's most popular tourist destinations: Phuket, Pattaya, Koh Samui. Thai authorities have been quick to hose down speculation that the kingdom is under threat of a Bali-style attack and have criticized Western governments for issuing travel advisories warning their citizens to avoid, or to take extreme caution, in areas where foreigners congregate. Yet the country is taking anti-terrorism measures. Bar patrons are being frisked, police patrols have been stepped up in places like Phuket, and soldiers are boarding boats for searches off southern Thailand...
Thailand is notorious for its sex tourism industry, and many human rights organizations point to its exploitation of young girls as one of modern humanity’s glaring failures. And since over 90 percent of the Thai population identifies itself as Buddhist, Prasse-Freeman, as any good Ivy assists leader should, wanted to make the connection...
...prostitutes didn’t have the English, and I didn’t have the Thai skills to do it properly,” he says, though he has been taking more intensive classes in the language to make a return trip possible...
...phenomenon began during the Vietnam War, when GIs on leave came to Thailand. After the war, demand plummeted, so they began doing these ‘sex tours’ as a way to bring business back up. Now, however, there is also a lot of local Thai...
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