(page 4 of 7) Philippine brewer San Miguel Corp. says it tells importers and distributors that its policy bars beer girls from drinking. But "it's very difficult for San Miguel to control the way our beer is promoted in Cambodia because we don't really have a presence there. Our relationship with our importer is basically that of a seller," says spokeswoman Maria Rosario B. Avancena. When told of some of the things that happen to beer girls in Cambodia, she says, "Frankly I'm shocked. We definitely wouldn't stand for it if we could help it." Some beer girls say they are instructed to swallow "anti-drunkenness pills" such as an herbal preparation from India that is sold for the liver. The maker of the preparation, called Lycovin, says it makes no claims about alcohol consumption. Taken by Force One night at the Best Star, complications arose. A group of four regulars had been tipping Ms. Aeng $5 or $10 every evening and pressuring her to leave with them after work. She says she always refused, but this night, they wouldn't take no for an answer.She says the men forced her into a car and drove her outside the city to a school building, where they pushed two tables together, made her lie on top, and one man raped her. She was still in her Stella Artois uniform. She didn't fight back. "I was afraid if I resisted, the other men would beat me," Ms. Aeng says. Afterward, she says, the men abandoned her at the school, leaving her to flag down a moped taxi to get home. "They didn't even give me money for the fare," she says. Ms. Sokheun, the restaurant owner, says she remembers such an incident, and "it was the girl's fault." The owner's version is that the beer girl -- she says it might have been Ms. Aeng -- had agreed to leave the restaurant with some customers who regularly paid her for sex, but when her boyfriend showed up, she hesitated and a scuffle ensued. The customers then pulled her into a car. Ms. Sokheun says she doesn't know whether there was a rape, but "if it happened, it was because of the girl." Ms. Aeng says she didn't tell the police because she "didn't know the city yet." She says she did tell Mr. Chhan at the Stella Artois distributor and asked for a transfer but was refused, so she quit. Mr. Chhan, after first denying that any such incident occurred, says, "It's a very long story... . Maybe it happened a long time ago, but I don't remember." A current manager at the Stella distributor says he was never told about such an incident.         PREVIOUS PAGE RETURN TO BIO NEXT PAGE