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WoWasis book review: ‘The Snakehead’: of smuggling Chinese nationals into the U.S.
WoWasis has already reported on the AAMP (Asian Apartment Massage Parlor) scene in the western U.S. In that environment, based on our interviews, it would appear that most of the women involved in the trade view the United States as a quick way to make great money, and a way-stop on their way back home. Whether […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachelor in Bangkok: Khun Lee on errant condoms, guiltless sexual faux pas, and Valentine’s Day
Used condom accidentally suspended from a ceiling fan sends Khun Lee’s date fleeing in terror
Read the rest of this entry »Grey Man: yet another Sex Trafficking NGO found to be falsifying data
NGOs investigtaing alleged sex trafficking continue to be challenged in providing truthful information
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: Nihal DeSilva’s ‘The Far Spent Day,’ Sri Lanka
Nihal DeSilva was a formidable novelist, a master of plot and character development who was killed by a landmine while in his mid-50s, only three books into a literary career that promised to propel him into the firament of notable writers of political intrigue. The Far-Spent Day (2004, ISBN 978-955-8095-74-4), like his previous book, the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Is skin-lightening cream a danger?
The Good Manner: Advice on Asia from WoWasis’ Pa Farang Today’s dilemma: my Thai girlfriend uses skin lightening cream Dear Pa Farang, I would guess that like many other western men are like me, and appreciate and enjoy the dark beautiful skin color of their Thai wives and girlfriends. Lately, my GF has started to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Dr Laura Agustín and Thai sex workers: Anti-trafficking Rescues are Our Biggest Problem
Perhaps the most controversial topic we write about here at WoWasis is the excesses of the NGOs and governmental bodies involved in policing the sex trade in Asia. $30,000 Pedophilia NGO scam: if allegations are true, who’s watching the Watchers? NGO Pedophilia controversy heats up in Cambodia and Is it time for a website to archive […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: the life of a surgeon in Sri Lanka, by Dr. Philip Veerasingam
Dr. Philip G. Veerasingam worked in the Department of Health, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, from 1965 to 2000, and discusses his life as a surgeon in a memoir, The Cry of the Devil Bird: Incidents in the Life of a Surgeon (2010, ISBN 978-955-1723-13-2). It is essentially the story of a country doctor, working in at times […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Chinaman,’ a fictional Sri Lankan cricket tale by Shehan Karunatilaka
There’s some damn good fiction coming out of Sri Lanka these days, but it’s not all that easy to find. Bookstores exist in Colombo, but they’re not exactly on tourist routes. We at WoWasis found really great stores — including the Odel shop — in the shopping gallery at the airport, near the exit gates […]
Read the rest of this entry »Macau’s King of Gambling’s Tricky Abdication
Stanley Ho’s massive Macau empire is proving difficult to divide up among the Ho family because of arguments and lawsuits.
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