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Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

The following information is taken from the Research Report on Mainland Chinese Sex Workers - Hong Kong, Macau and Town B in the Pearl River Delta, available from Zi Teng or Asia Monitor Resource Center.

The sex trade is booming in China, having benefited from the country's effective embrace of capitalism.

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

My family name is Wang. I am from Changsha in Hunan. I will not tell you my age.

I have five brothers and sisters. I attended school from seven years old until I was 19. Then I wanted to go to university, but my family had no money so I couldn't go.

When I first left home to work, I went to Zhuhai [in China, near Macau], working in a garment factory.

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Sam Vuthy

Many women and children have been trafficked from rural areas in Cambodia and neighbouring countries to Cambodian cities, especially Phnom Penh, to be prostitutes.

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Phally

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yukiko Kaname

The biggest challenge to the sex industry in Japan is that it is difficult to identify problems. Due to discriminatory attitudes of national legislation and society against sex work, sex workers cannot obtain information and do not have adequate systems for dealing with problems.

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Ed Shepherd

WTO is an acronym that seems to be on everyone's lips, meaning World Trade Organisation. The Swiss headquarters has a permanent staff of over 500. Obviously such a large organisation has many facets. We will try to look at the most important aspects of the WTO to date, the effects it has on labour, and look at what it might like to achieve in the upcoming round of negotiations.

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Helene Bours and Michael Earle

No Safe Passage

The proposal for a Multilateral Agreement on Investment spells danger for fisheries

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

IRENE

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Olivier Doriane

Informations Ouvrieres: On November 15, 1999, high-ranking U.S. and Chinese officials signed an agreement in Beijing that is meant to pave the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. What can you tell us about this agreement?

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Gerard Greenfield

Introduction

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Peggy Lee

Issue No : 32 September - November 1999

Ed Shepherd