A heavy silence fell in the room. Frodo could hear his heart beating. Even outside everything seemed still. No sound of Sam’s shears could now be heard. extracted from Lord of the Rings - ‘Shadow of the Past‘ Page. A few friends of mine have made their own points on the current dom...

Only in kampuchea was there true communism. So thought the khmer rouge butchers. Now a few of these monsters will be tried for their evil. Most of them have died peacefully, but will burn for eternity in hell. Justicehas not been swift. It will probably not result in the deserved fate for these butc...

From After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide, by Craig Etcheson (Texas Tech U. Press, 2006), pp. 2-4 (footnote references omitted): It is an extraordinary situation. Cambodia is a country where as much as a third of the population died in one of the worst genocides of modern ti...

The brothel business model is more vulnerable than it looks. There are ways we can make enslaving girls more risky and less profitable to push traffickers to quit....

They say cars tell a lot about their owners... As I'm driving to LA today in the carpool lane, and realizing there are a lot more motorcycles on the road, it occurred to me... Why not enforce the 'car size access' rule? Only allow access to class of cars in relation to the number of persons in them....

Anyone who thinks it is hyperbole to describe sex trafficking as slavery should look at the maimed face of a teenage girl, Long Pross....

As long as 14-year-old girls are being jolted with electric shocks to make them smile before sex tourists in Cambodia, the abolitionist cause for slavery has not been completed....

I call it the little room. In most cases it's actually not that small, but my claustrophobia seems to kick in as soon as the immigration officer separates me from the other passengers on my flight and escorts me through a door into my own private travel hell....

Beach Beach-hop by kayak, Brazil The stunning old colonial town of Paraty may be a classic Brazil pitstop but • you can get a completely new perspective on it with Original Travel's kayaking trips around the surrounding coastline. Part of a wider itinerary that also takes in Rio, the two-night kay...

Ali Alatas, who has died aged 76, was one of Indonesia's most widely respected foreign ministers. A charismatic and urbane man - known affectionately as "Pak Ali" - he was tipped to become the United Nations secretary general in the 1990s. But his boss, the Indonesian dictator Suharto, is said to ha...