The author of this book on the prostitution “rescue industry” caught our eye here on a WoWasis blog post earlier this year, when we reported this comment in her own blog, quoted from a Thai women’s organization: We have now reached a point in history where there are more women in the Thai sex industry being […]
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Shakespeare film banned in Thailand
In April, Thailand’s culture ministry banned a film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. citing “content that causes divisiveness among the people of the nation”. On July 5, 2012, Bangkok’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) is hosting a discussion pertaining to that event. Censorship is always an issue in Thailand, and the discussion will no doubt be pointed, and […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Ho Chi Minh: A Life’ by William J. Duiker
Author William J. Duiker worked in Saigon’s U.S. embassy during the Vietnam war years, and has penned an exhaustive review of the life of Ho Chi Minh in Ho Chi Minh: A Life (2001, ISBN 978-0786887019). The text is 577 pages long, and what really emerges is essentially the story of a conciliator who played […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: Nihal DeSilva’s ‘The Giniralla Conspiracy,’ Sri Lanka
The Giniralla Conspiracy (2005, ISBN 978-955-1266-02-8), was Sri Lankan novelist Nihal DeSilva’s third and final completed book hHe was killed by a landmine while in his mid-50s, making for a short, but stellar literary career). Like his two previous books, The Far-Spent Day, and the Gratiaen Prize-winning The Road from Elephant Pass, it is based […]
Read the rest of this entry »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 »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 »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 »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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