VOLCANO AFTERMATH deforestation. Philippines. Central Luzon, Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted in 1991 and caused massive destruction of urban and rural landscape. Many indigenous Aeta and Igorot people were displaced. White volcanic ashes settled and disfigured the landscape. Many live in ramshackle shelters, in refugee camps and settlements, living on humanitarian aid. RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING, Philippines. Poor and indigenous people, old and young, some children, work in the infamous rubbish dump 'Smokey Mountain' outside Manilla. They recycle household and public waste, collecting and separating materials such as paper, corrugated cardboard, metal, plastics. Many suffer chronic skin and asthmatic diseases as a result of close contact with burning rubbish and chemicals. FLOODS & DEFORESTATION, Philippines. Ariel and land views of logging and deforestation causing massive landslides. Thousands of people died during flash floods in Leyte, the Philippines. Heavy rains brought floodwaters into river deltas where the poorest communities live, with access to water; shanty towns, squatter camps were rapidly washed away. The rapidity of flooding was blamed as much on logging and deforestation as the rain storms themselves. The Philippines, as the in rest of South East Asia, is rife with corruption amongst state, government and military officials who make a profit from illegal logging concessions. TRAFFIC POLLUTION, Philippines. Traffic jams pollute the city at all hours. Most cars, buses or jeepneys have very bad pollution levels, with high levels of exhaust fumes and no catalytic filters. There is a heavy cloud of smog above the city 24 hours a day

RADIOACTIVITY LEUKEMIA, Malaysia. Bukit Merah, Ipoh State. Asian Rare Earh producing radioactive waste from tailings. Unsafe storage and pollution of water chain has caused many illnesses including a higher than normal rate of leukemia amongst the predominantly Chinese community, mainly children, suffering abnormalities and deformities. Ipoh Malaysia Bukit Merah Leukemia, radioactive waste illness Asian Rare Earth deformed mentally handicapped sick

Smokey Mountain rubbish dump, at Steung Mean Chey, started as a landfill site sixty years ago, and is now part of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the grey cloud of acrid smoke exuding from constantly burning garbage gives it its nickname. There are over 2,000 casual workers, including some 600 children, who scavenge across the dumpsite, collecting plastic bags, metal, plastics and paper; which are then sorted, cleaned, weighed, and sold for recycling. People work, eat, and sleep amidst the rubbish and constant fumes, their strenuous labor earns them about $1 per day. Waste pickers even work night-shifts using miner's lamps to illuminate their way, one of Smokey Mountain's most visually striking characteristics. It is a place notorious for pollution, crime, and disease; medical waste is a constant hazard. In Asia, whole communities have developed out of the waste industry, handling some 75% of urban waste. What is a life of misery for some, is an example of sustainable development to others. Across Asia, the figures for recycling man-made resources, by such communities, are staggeringly high compared with the western developed countries. Informal waste collection systems have environmental and economic advantages, reducing the need for landfill, saving natural resources, while providing an important lifeline for some of the world's poorest people, but waste scavengers have dramatically shortened life expectancies, poor health and bad living conditions

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Phnom Penh's Nagaworld Casino and five-star hotel is one of Cambodia's biggest private employers with more than 3,000 staff catering for a stream of visitors. It functions non-stop 24 hours a day with an inside airconditioned controlled temperature of 21 degrees.It is a 14 storey hotel and entertainment complex, with more than 500 bedrooms, 14 restaurants and bars, 700 slot machines and 200 gambling tables. There is also a spa, karaoke and VIP suites, live bands, and a nightclub. Its monolithic building dominates the skyline at the meeting point of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, in stark contrast to nearly intricate Khmer architecture.///Guests gambling with croupier with her back to us in Nagaworld casino Headline: Nagaworld Casino, 5 star hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Keywords: nagaworld, casino, hotel, relax, leisure, entertainment, phnom, penh, cambodia, five, 5, star, tourism, restaurant, accomodation, travel, holiday, asia, south, east, SEA, globe, mekong, development, poker, gambling, cards, baccarat, croupier, losing, game

SEX INDUSTRY TOURISM. South East Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Taxi girls, prostitutes, serve foriegn tourists & Khmer, Cambodians. The sex industry is part of the fabric, servicing all classes of Cambodian society. Girls are forced into prostitution because of poverty and corruption that exists across the country. People might earn 1 to 2 $ per day, even less in rural areas, so the lure of prostitution is high. Families can sell young girls, virgins, for several hundred dollars. Cheap brothels line the streets in parts of the city centre, near railway tracks, and on the periphery. Sex for Cambodians at cheap prices in the street brothels, as low as 1 $ US, to exorbitant fees in penthouse hotel suites for the rich. Sex tourism industry attracts Western and Asian tourists typically paying 10 - 30 $ US. Expressions such as 'yam yam', eating, for a blowjob 'bam bam' for intercourse. There are 'lady-boys', youths, who use the money to pay for sex change operations. Prostitutes spend lots of money on make-up, clothes, and mobile telephones. They live in squalor. Due to public advertising campaigns and outreach work, Aids and HIV cases have dramatically decreased, in Cambodia, since the late '90s. Condoms are encouraged, are cheap and widely available. This is seen as a success story by medical and health authorities. There are risks as ex-prostitutes known as 'sweethearts' don't use condoms with their partners. Brothels, v & madams take their cut, but many taxi-girls work as free agents. Bars, pool halls or beer gardens have staff and taxi-girls available to service male clients, some work as barmaids or escorts. There is violence against prostitutes; gang-rape and murder by Khmer gangs. Once a girl has worked as a prostitute it is unlikely she can ever marry. Phnom Penh Cambodia Sex Industry love selling body prostitute hooker lady streets AIDS SIDA dangerous porn pornographic, trade girl girls buying casual informal sex tourism trade unequal protection single couple man woman young age difference, beauty Asian billiards pool bar brothel bordel mobile telephone eyelashes stool power for sale tourisme taxi girls lady boys call girls escorts foreigners whites Caucasian men sheets