- Thailand's Market in Children
Every year thousands of children from the poor provinces of Thailand take a one-way ticket to Hualampong station, the gateway to the capital city, Bangkok. Many travel alone. Others are escorted by a relative or child-trader. All are looking for work. Some will never return home.
From the moment the children step off the overnight trains professional eyes are scrutinising them - deciding whether they are suitable for domestic service, sufficiently sturdy to work in a sweatshop or attractive enough to appeal to the patrons of a brothel. For Hualampong is the centre of a professionally operated market where children are bought and sold.
Assistant producer CHRISTINE CARTER
Executive producer ANTHONY ISAACS
Producer JEANNE LA CHARD
(A The World About Us production)