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Originally posted by taxwonk
That's not consistent with any of the reports I've read, but I'm sure you know better.
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What reports where? I first went to Thailand in 1989 and have been there every couple of years since. The change has been unbelievable. Bangkok now has the worst traffic jams in the World. Something like seventy percent of thai families have TV sets. The middle class has exploded. The prostitutes all over Asia come from the three countries I mentioned. There are some from Burma, but not as many, because it is harder for the people to get out. The refugee problems from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam into Thailand are huge. The US government has been putting pressure on the Thai government to stop the sex trade (and send the girls back to their home countrys), but the Thai government has been arguing that these girls are better of in brothels than they would be in their home countries.
