You might need a VPN to watch in Thailand Deutsche Welle’s recent documentary about Sin City, but the theme is hardly new. Fifteen years ago, a European diplomat said she had seen no evidence of child prostitution on a day trip to Pattaya, but then achieved a flurry of publicity after admitting she had never left the confines of her five star hotel on the Naklua Road. Meanwhile, Which? magazine once labeled Pattaya as one of the 10 worst holiday destinations globally because it was dirty in every sense of the word. The News of the World, of forlorn memory, often sent reporters to Pattaya when short of a front page splash involving clerical pederasts on the run or British members of parliament enjoying a golf holiday – even though they had conveniently left their clubs at the airport.
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