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Hi Jim,
I hate to kick you while you are down, but I just stumbled upon this. It maybe the reason she is in Malaysia. Since you already know she's with another guy it would be best to forget her and concentrate or your next tour. It may not be the easiest thing to do, but take it from an old fart, at 23 you have a BUNCH of living yet to do.
My dear old Mother used to console me when I was your age and been dumped by a girl, "don't worry, there are plenty more fish in the sea," she'd say and once I grasped the true essence of that statement, life got a whole lot easier and she was right. I wouldn't be worried, I'd get active finding a suitable replacement at home to fill in until the next Thai trip.
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Southern unrest forces sex workers into north Malaysia
The Nation
Publication Date : 2006-01-25
Thai sex workers have been forced to cross the border to work in northern Malaysia because unrest in the South has caused a drop in customers.
A leading figure in the region’s tourism industry confirmed Tuesday (Jan 24) a Malaysian newspaper report that a growing number of sex workers had entered Malaysia due to the violence.
But Saengthong Preechawutthidej, owner of Marina Sungai Kolok Hotel and former president of Narathiwat’s Tourism Business Association, said such “labour migration” was not new as Thai sex workers regularly go to Malaysia in search of business.
But the number of Malaysian tourists has dropped dramatically since the violence flared in the three southernmost provinces.
Songchai Mungprasithichai, a key member of an association of tour guides in Songkhla, said prostitutes have been crossing the border into Malaysia for more than a decade and that they have operated in a very systematic fashion with “traffickers” facilitating their movement, including temporary resettlement.
The New Straits Times newspaper reported Tuesday that the migration of Thai prostitutes began last year after an escalation of bombings and other violence by Islamic insurgents in the South provinces significantly reduced the number of Malaysians and other tourists.
The newspaper quoted an unidentified police source as saying cyber cafes and beauty salons in Kelantan provided partitioned back rooms for the sex workers, who charge customers between 100 and 300 ringgit (US$26-80) a time.
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