China-Burma border

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GE07Jp01.html

The article talked about Burma and China border and what's going on there.

I quoted some from the article

Ruili is the underside of China's boom, a gathering place for gamblers, prostitutes, drug addicts and smugglers. Here on the frontier, lawlessness rules.

One of them is Bo Saung, a petite young woman slouching against a tree. Her pale face has been made up carelessly, her cheeks covered in patches of thanaka, the yellowish powder worn as a cosmetic by Burmese women, and her eyebrows lie flat like two dead worms. She clutches bony hands over a pink jacket to cover her protruding sarong-wrapped belly.

Bo Saung is five months pregnant, so she's selling her body at rock-bottom prices: Five yuan per session. She needs money for heroin, food and rent. The 30-year-old Burmese has been here for 11 years.