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First Place
John Stanmeyer
VII / TIME Magazine
"Sex, Drugs and Death: AIDS Let Loose In Asia"  

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Illegal import of rice from Burma Ñ along with illegal labor Ñ coming across the remote Naaf River border region, illustrates the porous border between Burma and Bangladesh that is a popular route for trafficking of women and children of the Rohingyan minority to Bangladesh and then onward into brothels in Pakistan and the Middle East. Teknaf, Bangladesh.
 
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