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...without brothers abroad can't afford any of that. Some must sell off a portion of their meager monthly food ration to buy medicine. Imported medicines are smuggled in through the embargo-busting trade with Jordan and the Emirates, but only the rich can buy those. The poor get cheap pills from "private" Iraqi drug companies that "never, ever work," says a pharmacist in the posh Al-Mansur district...
...Outside, vendors are hawking cheap sunglasses, fabrics, and Star Cola in bottles that ape the ones made by Pepsi?one of the many multinationals that once operated in Burma and have since fled. This office, which belongs to a friend, is less ersatz, less dilapidated than most. It is stocked with sophisticated soundboards and equipment, including two Mac G4s with big color monitors. An engineer cues up a video and Zaw Win Htut appears onscreen, earnestly singing and strumming on a river barge, then walking down a dusty road. This is interspersed with stills of his mother in her youth...
...Maybe Glitter was in Cambodia for the temples. But a whole lot of foreign men come for underage girls, who are cheap and readily available. Rarely are the customers arrested and when they are, too often the charges vanish in a haze of bribes and midnight flights. Of dozens of foreigners arrested on child exploitation charges in the past five years, only one, British school principal John Keeler, has served more than a year in prison?and Keeler famously protested his conviction by throwing a chair in court and screaming that he'd been promised an acquittal if he paid...
What lends Judevine its attractiveness are the people who work hard for their “two-and-a-quarter an hour” then sit down to break bread at Jerry’s, the local cheap food joint attached to the gas station. Their lives, remarkable for their modest strength in the face of lower middle-class adversity, are exposed in the sort of richly layered detail that is rare on stage...
...year in jail, but that's rare. The monks want the law toughened. In the meantime, the only sanction they can truly rely on is shame. It does work for some. While the abbot drones an incantation, two monks strip Charoen of his robes. Given some cheap gray civvies and a bit of his ill-gotten cash and food, he's cast out from the order. As he walks away from the temple, head hanging and dejected, Charoen mumbles, "That's it for this racket...