Thursday, November 02 2006 @ 06:14 PM GMT National 
In a move to formalize the Republic of the Philippines-United States' stance on the Anti-Trafficking in Person (TIP) drive, the US granted US$ 250,000 to the Philippine Ports Authority-Ports Management Office (PPA-PMO) in Davao recently to intensify the anti-trafficking campaign nationwide.

ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:25 p.m. October 29, 2006

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A police officer from San Francisco has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a girl in Cambodia, officials said Monday.
Ngeth Sarath, a prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, said that on Sunday he formally charged Donald Rene Ramirez, 50, with debauchery for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old ethnic Vietnamese girl. 

By Diane Huber The Olympian

OLYMPIA - Trong and Rani Hong believe their connection was sealed long before a blind date between an Olympia High School sophomore and a college freshman.

The Olympia couple flew to Chicago last week to tell "The Oprah Winfrey Show" their stories - that of a boy who shipwrecked on an unknown Indonesian island, and an Indian girl who was sold into slavery.