Please register, and you will get it every month. Cambodian sex workers wait for customers at a public park in Phnom Penh. The latest trend seems to be sexual abuse of children in Cambodian orphanages. Male perpetrators, in the guise of tourists or volunteers, get easy access to underage girls and boys.

V annith Uy is the owner of what translates from Khmer as a "mobile nail salon", although the word salon is a stretch. Three years ago, when she arrived from the countryside, Uy had a different plan. She wanted to open a hair and beauty salon on proper premises in the Cambodian capital. The man was a police general who frequented the beer garden where Uy worked as a kitchen help, she says. He bought Chamnan for six days and nights. She was allowed to call her mother once a day.

There are many reasons for Cambodia becoming more and more a sexual mecca for men in Southeast Asia. If you look at Phnom Penh for example, five years ago there were only a dozen or so foreign oriented girly bars in Streets and Now, new such places full of young and hot Cambodian girls are being opened almost every month all around town.

Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground. Cambodian sex workers sit on the side walk along a street in Phnom Penh on Dec. Hard times, she said, have brought her here to earn money for her widowed mother and three younger siblings. No girl wants to do this horrible work," the year-old, who asked not to be named, said in an interview as she looked for business near the Suriya Supermarket.