Ingle sex. Is buying sex a better way to help Cambodian women than buying a T-shirt?.

They soon arrived with trays bearing bowls of nuts and snacks; plates of grapefruit, grapes, and mangos; and bottles of warm beer served in glasses with ice.

Neon lights flash from the windows, and young women sit at tables out front waving at men walking by, urging them to come in. In a column , Kristof called on the Cambodian government to "organize sting operations" against brothels, though in practice such raids have resulted in women being beaten or raped by police and sent to "rehabilitation centers" that Human Rights Watch describes as " squalid jails ," including Koh Kor, a former Khmer Rouge detention facility. Almost all of the country's , apparel workers are women.

My two Cambodian friends also took me to a karaoke bar whose customers were mostly Chinese and other Asian tourists.

Another night, I went to a nightclub on the Quay that was packed with a Cambodian crowd dancing to a band playing Asian pop. Hostesses also work long hours—typically late afternoon until 2 a.

One of the women, a year-old whose education stopped at the fourth grade, wore a pink prom dress and barrettes in her long hair. Share via Email Paddy Considine in Journeyman as Matty Burton, a boxer who suffers a brain injury in the ring and has to try to rediscover his identity.

It was boxing that gave my grandfather, Jimmy, the eldest of 15 children scrapping and scraping by in a two-up, two-down in Dublin, a shot at a better life.

The interesting fact is to see what explanations he provides. Considine, who prepared for the role by training for 12 weeks at the Ingle Gym in Sheffield my great-uncle Brendan also has a cameo as his father , admitted to me that he was nervous that his film might be seen as anti-boxing. Textile workers earn about 33 cents per hour, lower than anywhere except Bangladesh.

They commute in, sometimes from villages hours away, or live four and five to a room in shanties outside the factory gates. In truth, he probably prized such camaraderies most of all.

And so they continue to trudge into the firing line.

There are numerous karaoke bars and massage parlors, and freelance prostitutes abound at bars and nightclubs catering to Westerners.