Zana claims laptop, nude pics stolen Former Akademi Fantasia Season Five (AF5) contestant Wan Nurul Zhana Wan Mohd Hanizan, in her police report lodged last Friday, claimed that her car was broken into and her laptop stolen. A police source revealed that, according to the report, the incident took place in Damansara in early January. 24-3-2007

		Sex video star new anchor on Macau TV A former politician who became infamous after a friend secretly taped her having sex, was hired by a Macau television station as its news anchor, local television reported this week. Her friend then gave the footage to Scoop weekly magazine, resulting in Chu's downfall from politics as the VCD quickly circulated throughout South-East Asia. 24-3-2007

		Porn video tops Yahoo Korea A pornographic video clip posted for about six hours on Yahoo Korea and soaring straight to the top of the most watched list sent police into action. It was posted on Yahoo's pages for user-created content, which had been negligent in monitoring content. Experts, however, worry that similar incidents can happen any time. 24-3-2006

Safe sex, a luxury for migrant workers
"We feel kind of sorry when these young guys struggle against each other to get one condom," said Zhang Jixiao, Director of Home of Green Apples, a sex health education institute affiliated to China Population Information and Education Centre. 24-3-2007

More Koreans engage in sex trade in US
The number of Korean women engaged in prostitution overseas - both voluntary or forced - has been steadily increasing after the government's crackdown on the domestic sex industry in 2004. 24-3-2007

Malaysia: Sexual harassment cases: Low figures too good to be true
Only two per cent of the country¡¦s 11.6 million workers have reported sexual harassment in the workplace to the Human Resources Ministry every year, a number the authorities believe is too good to be true. 24-3-2007

From profession to prostitution
Prince Genji was apparently among the few to resist the charms of those bands of young women who made a living by offering themselves. Upon seeing such a group at Sumiyoshi Shrine, the hero of the "The Tale of Genji" agreed that there were a number of courtiers who might find them interesting but that he was after bigger game and saw no advantage "to getting oneself in a casual affair with someone a bit inconstant.". 24-3-2007

Irish paedophiles flocking to Philippines
Campaigning Irish priest Fr Shay Cullen warns that the Philippines is becoming the number one destination for Irish paedophiles who prey on the country's estimated 60,000 children caught up in the sex industry. 24-3-2007

Taiwan cracks human-trafficking ring, rescues 35 Indonesian women
Taiwan police on Wednesday cracked a human- trafficking criminal ring and rescued 35 Indonesian women who have been tricked into coming to Taiwan to work as cheap labour. 24-3-2007

Six charged in SoCal prostitution ring with Chinese links
Five people were arrested for allegedly running a Southern California prostitution ring that offered sex with immigrant Chinese women, authorities said Thursday. 24-3-2007

Man acquitted of forcing woman into prostitution
A hotel receptionist has been cleared of charges of forcing into prostitution a woman who came to work as a housemaid before she died of AIDS. 24-3-2007

Flourishing of child prostitution in Ukraine
Juan Miguel Petit, the Commission's Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography reported that the flourishing of child prostitution and trafficking of children are the great problems in Ukraine. 24-3-2007

Porn industry is booming globally
Every 39 minutes a new pornographic video is being produced in the United States. Every second, 28,258 Internet users view pornography worldwide and 372 Internet users are typing search keywords looking for adult-oriented material. 16-3-2007

Indian government will pay for female babies to stop sex-selection abortions
The government is India is unveiling yet another proposal to try to stem the tide of sex-selection abortions and female infanticides there. The Asian nation, where cultural values place more emphasis on boys, has had a hard time stopping the practices and the skewed male-female gender ratios they produce. 16-3-2007

Gay politician Ken Togo speaks on politics, freedom, and sex
Japan's leading sexual minority politician tells Spa! that his path from "pillow biter" to "freedom fighter" shows there's no love in Japanese politics. 16-3-2007

Japanese too busy to have sex
The secret of Japan's exceptionally low birthrate is out - more than a third of married couples do not have sex. 16-3-2007

Muslim cleric urge Indonesians to forego pre-marital sex
A Muslim cleric has urged Indonesians, in particular teenagers, to stop having sex out of wedlock to avoid worsening the country's morality, a local report said Friday. 16-3-2007

Israel recalls 'naked ambassador'
Israel's leadership has been shaken by a string of scandals Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear. 16-3-2007

Philippines: Sexual abuse in the workplace
In this age of emerging woman power, it is sad that many women are still trapped in old values making them prey to victimization. 16-3-2007

Vietnamese athlete gets five years for sex with minor
A Vietnamese wushu international was sentenced to five years in jail Tuesday for having sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Hanoi hotel last September. 16-3-2007

Hamas orders to destroy books of Palestinian tales over sexual content
The Hamas-run Education Ministry has ordered an anthology of Palestinian folk tales pulled from school libraries and destroyed, reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, officials said Monday, in the most direct attempt by the Islamic militants to impose their beliefs on Palestinian society. 8-3-2007

Pederasty in the Muslim world
The practice of pederasty in the Muslim world seems to have begun, according to surviving records, sometime during the 800s and ended, at least as an open practice, in the mid-19th century. 8-3-2007

Japan: No new apology for WWII brothels Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the US Congress passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament this week. 8-3-2007

- China's foreign minister condemns use of sex slaves by Japanese military as serious crime

- Japan must concede role, says Manila

- South Korea raps Japan's PM over sex slave comments

- North Korea upbraids Japan for 'sexual slavery' during WWII

India's Sex workers' meet ends with demand for new identity
Are sex workers 'entertainment workers'? At the end of a seven-day all-India conference of sex workers, this is what women who refuse to accept old tags are asking. 8-3-2007

Amend criminal law to punish same-sex sexual assaults
A Chinese lawmaker has called for amendment to or judicial interpretation of the country's existing Criminal Law to severely punish those making sexual assaults on victims of the same sex. 8-3-2007

Nude painting sold after Singapore prohibits general viewing
A 4-metre-high nude painting barred from general public viewing in restrictive Singapore has been sold for 60,000 US dollars to an art collector, the gallery owner said this week. 8-3-2007

Taiwan busts human trafficking ring
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Tuesday busted a organized human smuggling operation which forced women from mainland China into prostitution across the greater Taipei area, the CIB announced this week. 8-3-2007

Delhi sex workers oppose legalisation of prostitution
Amidst the din of the celebration of International Women's Day on Thursday, sex workers in the capital yesterday opposed legalising their profession, saying it will spell disaster for the society. 8-3-2007

Why Japanese guys don't give head - here's the 'science'
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "Beautiful Country" plan aims to reinvigorate the nation, but Weekly Playboy uses some cunning linguistics to come up with an idea it says will really lick Japan into shape. 24-2-2007

Malaysian leader blasts religious plan to spy on lustful men and women
Malaysia's leader said state religious officials should scrap a plan to spy on unmarried Muslims to catch any immoral activities, and instead should focus on strengthening Islamic values, news reports said Friday. 24-2-2007

'Sex shop' closed in Turkey
Locals in Kayseri were outraged by the opening of a sex shop in the middle of downtown. The Kayseri Melikşah Municipality has reached a decision to close the shop after the reaction, and an improper leasing contract was given as the reason to shut down the store. 24-2-2007

Japan's femmes frolic in Fukuoka foam
Japan's sex services have catered almost exclusively to a male clientele, but now, according to Shukan Post, there are soapland brothels who have opened their doors to women looking to open their legs. 24-2-2007

Japan condemns US sex slave bill
Japan has denounced a resolution before the US Congress demanding that Tokyo make amends for forcing foreign women into sexual slavery during World War II. 24-2-2007

Dubai: Schoolgirl 'agreed to sex'
A man is standing trial for kidnapping and raping a 10-year-old schoolgirl. The 31-year-old Iranian suspect, N.F., denied at the Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday that he kidnapped, molested or raped the Asian schoolgirl in the Al Wasl area. 24-2-2007

US soldiers jailed for Iraq rape, murders
A US soldier has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family. 24-2-2007

Arab societies: Sexual abuse of children mustn't be ignored
Arab societies generally tend to brush under the carpet incidents of sexual harassment of children, particularly if the delinquent is a close relative, says a visiting psychiatrist. 24-2-2007

Abu Ghraib contractor pleads guilty to child porn possession
A civilian contractor who worked at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing child pornography after he was discovered using the prison computer network to access porn sites. 24-2-2007

Sex education in Kerala raises eyebrows
In the highly literate state of Kerala, sex education still seems to be a taboo. But the Marxist-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is determined to go ahead with the move to introduce a handbook on sex education for students of standard IX and XI despite criticism it was nothing but mere pornography. 24-2-2007

Lifestyle changes affecting sexual life in India
Coinciding with the out-sourcing and Information Technology boom, India is reporting more sexual disorders, divorces and extra-marital affairs, according to some leading sexologists. 24-2-2007

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