Police warning as nude photos spread
Chinese
police have
launched a nationwide online crackdown
to delete pornographic pictures of several Hong Kong celebrities
and pledged to close any Websites that published the
raunchy photos. Meanwhile, actor Edison Chen said
he will fulfill existing commitments and then leave
the Hong Kong entertainment industry indefinitely due
to the nude photo scandal.
22-2-2008
China: Jail term for nude-picture blackmailer A district court yesterday jailed a
blackmailer for six months after hearing a case that
echoed the nude-picture scandal of Hong Kong singer
Edison Chen. 7-3-2008
Taiwanese momther forced young daughters into prostitution A mother in
Tainan County, southern Taiwan, was found to have
allegedly forced her three young daughters to serve as
prostitutes for more than two years. The woman and five
patrons were arrested and questioned by police just
before Chinese New Year.
15-2-2008
China shut 44,000 porn Web sites in 2007: report China shut down 44,000 Web sites and
homepages and arrested 868 people last year in a
campaign against Internet porn which will continue until
the end of this year's Beijing Olympics.
6-2-2008
Sex workers target businessmen in Hong Kong Forty-four mostly foreign businessmen
have reported being drugged and robbed by sex workers in
a Hong Kong red-light district over the last three
years, police said this week.
14-11-2007
China's great sexual leap forward 'Scored yet?' That was the first question
from several young adventurers crowded around a table at
a bar in Lhasa, Tibet's colourful capital city. Between
sips of yak butter tea, they trade jokes and swap tales
about their latest sexual encounters.
14-11-2007
China's sexual revolution The tanks
are parked. Kids are kissing in Tiananmen Square. And if
a new documentary is right, it's the kissing that's
leading to more personal liberty than any form of
rebellion since the Cultural Revolution began.
14-11-2007
Sex culture festival, a first for Shenzhen More than 1,000 relics depicting ancient
sex culture were on display during the Shenzhen Sex
Culture Festival, which was held in the city from
Septemvber 21 to September 23.
26-9-2007
Taiwan: Groups rally against scrapping legal prostitution More than 100
members of over 10 underprivileged groups last week
rallied at the Kaitakelan Blvd. to protest against an
undesirable decision made by President Chen Shui-bian to
scrap the public prostitution business when he served as
Taipei mayor 10 years ago.
13-9-2007
Senior lawmaker in China executed for killing mistress A senior lawmaker
and his accomplice, a local policeman, were executed in
Jinan on Wednesday for killing the official's young
mistress with a car bomb. Duan Yihe, 61, former chairman
of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's
Congress of Jinan, capital of Shandong Province in East
China, was convicted of murder, along with policeman
Chen Zhi, also his nephew-in-law.
6-9-2007
China bans cosmetic, sex change surgery on TV China's broadcasting watchdog has banned
all television shows involving plastic and transsexual
surgery. All stations are prohibited from organizing,
making or broadcasting TV reality shows featuring such
operations, according to the State Administration of
Radio, Film and Television.
30-8-2007
Shanghai show is all about sex Sex, a
centuries-old taboo in China, created a whirlwind in
Shanghai, as an international metropolis in what is
still a largely conservative country. The fourth China
International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health
Exhibition, Asia's largest adult show, opened last week
at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center in
Changning District. 22-8-2007
Sex, money and more than a girl can wish TV matchmaking shows used to be popular
in China. In their heyday, you could find them on four
to five channels every week. People were very excited
about being on that small box. You feel like being a
star, at the same time you may find your Mr. or Mrs.
Right, so why not try and get on the show?
22-8-2007
China cracks down on porn websites Song Jianxin, director of the Internet
supervision sector under the National Office of
Anti-porn and Illegal Publications, said that about 348
domestic websites had been found to post and distribute
porn novels and pictures.
22-8-2007
Mounting poverty, health risks for China's sex workers In an attempt to
escape poverty, women in China are increasingly turning
to prostitution and competition for clients has
reportedly resulted in lower pay and more dangerous
conditions for China's estimated ten-million sex
workers. 22-8-2007
More forced into prostitution in China Forced labor and sexual exploitation have
increased as the trend in human trafficking in China has
taken a turn for the worst. That is the assessment of a
senior public security official who was talking on the
loopholes in the country's labor system and Criminal Law
yesterday. 28-7-2007
Students top Shanghai pregnancy hotline list Nearly half the women calling Shanghai's
first hotline for unexpected pregnancies are students.
Hotline officials released the figures yesterday in a
move to promote young people's sexual awareness ahead of
World Population Day on Wednesday.
15-7-2007
Taiwanese teens want sex, education After decades of ignoring sex education,
Taiwan is blessed with what some call Asia's highest
rate of teen pregnancy. This mightn't matter so much
were it not for the fact that Taiwan also has one of the
highest rates of abortion in Asia, even as our
modernization and wealth make betrothal less attractive
and threaten to push the average marrying age for men
and women above 30. 5-7-2007
China: Family planning policy to stay The government will stick to its family
planning policy for the foreseeable future despite some
negative influences. Zhang Weiqing, head of the national
population and family planning commission, said the
government will remain committed to controlling
population growth and improving its quality.
5-7-2007
US presses Macau over human trafficking Macau may face US economic sanctions if
it fails to take concrete steps to tackle human
trafficking within the next 12 months, according to a
senior state department official.
5-7-2007
Playboy Mansion opening in Macau The
Chinese gaming resort of Macau will soon see
construction of a new Playboy Mansion, furthering
Playboy Enterprises' revival of its once booming club
arm. Macau is a 10 square-mile enclave with a population
of 500,000 that last year surpassed Las Vegas as the
highest-grossing gaming region in the world.
1-7-2007
2/3 of Chinese OK on pre-marital sex A survey out this week shows that two out
of three Chinese are tolerant towards pre-marital sex.
Chinese people's general attitudes toward sex are more
liberal and tolerant compared with six years ago, the
socio-sexology institution of Renmin University of China
said in a report about the survey conducted from July to
November last year to explore changes in Chinese
people's sex lives. 8-6-2007
Porn-surfing by proxy Steve Hunter wanted
to liberate a few oppressed Web users. So, like
thousands of other politically conscious technorati, he
turned his computer into a "proxy server," a back
channel that lets citizens of countries like Iran and
China connect with the Internet without running afoul of
censors. 8-6-2007
China: Veiled prostitution sites closed Not widely celebrated as the most
tolerant and liberal of countries with regard to
state-imposed Internet-based censorship, a Chinese
Internet watchdog consisting of government officials and
Net experts has this week executed a strict clampdown on
a dozen supposed dating Web sites that it believes are
serving as convenient cover for the spread of online
prostitution. 8-6-2007
China: Internet pornography clean up reaches college campuses Last week, China's
Education Ministry condemned several school websites for
using porn to make money. The ministry described the
profits from these Internet sites as "unlawful" and said
that the pornographic materials will influence and
pervert students. 8-6-2007
Fertility drug use booms in China Wealthy couples in China are turning to
fertility drugs in growing numbers, with a report
suggesting some may be using it to beat the one child
policy. One hospital has reportedly seen the number of
women giving birth to twins or triplets soar in recent
years. 28-5-2007
Taiwan divided on sex slave issue Two years after the US State Department
put Taiwan on its "Tier 2 Watch List" for human
trafficking - a dubious classification the nation shares
with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Libya and China -
local law enforcement agencies and charities still
disagree about basic concepts on how to address Taiwan's
swelling population of foreign sex workers.
28-5-2007
21-year-old Chinese student arrested for operating porn web sites Chinese police this
week said they had arrested a 21-year-old student
for running five pornographic Web sites with 210,000
registered users, amid a nationwide crackdown on online
pornography that authorities say is "perverting China's
young minds." 1-5-2007
US Homeland Security officer arrested after raid for trafficking, prostitution Government was seeking illegal aliens
recruited to work for prostitution ring, but when
federal agents raided local massage parlors last month,
they were shocked to find a Department of Homeland
Security law enforcement officer's gun and uniform in an
apartment linked to one of the parlors.
1-5-2007
Baidu web site with links to porn blocked Baidu.com Inc., operator of China's
most-used Internet search engine, said its Japanese Web
site, which has links to pornography and critics of
the Chinese government, has been blocked in its
home market. 21-4-2007
China threatens jail for cell-phone porn Beijing police are threatening jail
and fines for people who transmit pornography via cell
phones after merchants were caught selling such movies
on phone memory chips, a report said last week.
14-4-2007
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
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
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
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
Valentine's Day outtings Instead of
just buying your sweetie a St. Valentine's Day card and
a box of Godiva Chocolates, it is starting to appear
that the changing times dictate a trip to the nearest
love hotel. 14-2-2007
China will step up enforcement of laws against sex-selection abortion On a day when
hundreds of thousands of Americans are lining the
streets of Washington to protest 34 years of legalized
abortion, China's political leaders say they will do
more to stop sex-selection abortions there and to
correct a growing gender imbalance that its one-child
family planning program has yielded.
23-1-2007
Serial sexual offenders on the loose across Taiwan: police Police and a women's group
are warning the public on up to five serial rapists who
are on the loose in northern Taiwan and Kaohsiung city.
Among the criminals, the most active has committed
sixteen offenses since October of 1997 in Taipei City,
Taipei County, Taoyuan County, and Hsinchu County.
23-1-2007
Online prostitution group seized in Beijing Police have clamped down on an online
prostitution group, which is reportedly the biggest case
in five years, according to the information released
yesterday by the General Team of Social Security
Management of the city's public security bureau.
23-1-2007
Asia: The value of a girl Nature, left to its own devices,
produces roughly an even split between newborn baby boys
and girls - for obvious reasons. Tragically, however,
human intervention has skewed those numbers in many
Asian countries. The result? Experts say that tens of
millions of females are now effectively "missing" from
expected demographic patterns.
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