Hong
Kong: Magazine cleared of pop singer wet t-shirt pics child porn charges Easy Finder magazine was
acquitted yesterday of publishing child
pornography when it ran pictures of a young pop
singer in a wet T-shirt. Kwun Tong Magistrate
Gary Lam Kar-yan conceded that one of the four
pictures of Renee Lee Wan, published last June
when she was 14, did suggest the outline and
shape of her left breast and nipple.
21-4-2007
Nude
web chats are fine, thanks to loophole in Chinese pornography law Chinese prosecutors have had to
drop charges of "organising pornographic
activities" against a 36-year-old woman after it
found that nude chat rooms were not defined in
China's laws. This oversight in the law meant
that the woman's use of a webcam to chat to
other nudists online (whilst naked, of course)
could not be deemed illegal.
21-4-2007
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. 31-12-2006
China gets it up on tiger power China is pushing to legalize
international trade in tiger parts, valued for
everything from insomnia to impotence, to the horror of
animal rights advocates.
24-12-2006
Hong Kong: Girls warned over teen sex Nearly 50 percent of teenage girls
interviewed in a survey have had pre- marital sex,
according to the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups.
With the festive season around the corner, the group
warned young girls of the potential danger of attending
parties, saying they should be rational and avoid having
casual sex. 24-12-2006
Gender discrimination blamed for sex imbalance in China Discrimination against the
female sex remains the primary cause of China's growing
newborn gender imbalance, with an average of 123 boys
being born for every 100 girls, a researcher in women's
studies said on Friday.
24-12-2006
China: Anti-vice drive targets prostitute's haunts The sight of prostitutes beckoning
clients on the street or from windows has become rare in
Beijing, with police saying the "profession" has been
"basically stamped out" in the capital city.
16-12-2006
Foreign brides will change China forever We all know about the problem of
China's missing girls: the tens of millions of female
babies who were selectively aborted after their sex was
determined by ultrasound, or were born and then just
allowed to die, as families seeking sons took drastic
measures to cope with the one-child-per-family rule.
12-12-2006
China sentences fake sex pill kingpin A Chinese man was jailed for eight
years for making 60 tonnes of fake sex pills, state
media reported on Friday as the country cracks down on
pirates who copy nearly every product.
26-11-2006
Taiwan's human trafficking issue Police in Taoyuan recently announced
they had busted a smuggling ring run by a former
national taekwondo athlete who had brought young women
into Taiwan from southeast Asian countries and China
under the pretense of arranged marriages but then forced
them into prostitution.
26-11-2006
China: Porn for pandas, not people "It works," enthuses Zhang Zhihe, a
leading Chinese expert, about showing uninitiated males
DVDs of fellow pandas mating. It is one of many
techniques tried over the decades to get captive pandas
- notoriously poor breeders - to do it.
24-11-2006
Mao's home province puts sex on the Internet A school in Mao Zedong's home
province, slower than most to adopt reforms that have
now swept the country, has launched its first sex
education Web site to stop children feeling embarrassed
by the subject. 24-11-2006
Lanzhou mandates condom-use for sex-workers Lanzhou, the capital of Northwest
China's Gansu Province, has created a 100 per cent
Condom Use Programme (CUP) for entertainment places in
an effort to stop HIV/AIDS spreading from high-risk
people to the general public through sexual contact.
24-11-2006
China: School under fire for pimping students A dancing school in Guilin, in South
China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, broke the law
when it arranged for its students to work as bar girls,
legal experts said. 24-11-2006
China: Nude site owners arrested Changing District Prosecutors' Office
today arrested a couple who allegedly set up a porn
Website providing real-time nude performances and chats.
12-11-2006
China's Comrade Condoms In his
unremarkable 22-year life, which ended ingloriously in
1962 when a PLA comrade accidentally backed a truck into
a power pole that fell and crushed him, Lei Feng wanted
to be nothing more than a selfless "revolutionary screw
that never rusts." 8-11-2006
China's relaxed attitude towards sex Chinese sociologists said that the
country should promote bolder attitudes toward sex, but
that wife-swapping was off the agenda, state media
reported Monday. 8-11-2006
3/4 Shanghai husbands satisfied with sex A new survey shows that men in
Shanghai, China's most affluent city, are not only more
likely to get rich, but also are more likely to have a
satisfying sex life.
30-10-2006
China: Draft bill details sexual harassment Telling sexist jokes, emailing porn
to colleagues or sexually-salacious texting are all set
to be outlawed under a draft bill currently under review
by the city authorities.
30-10-2006
Taiwan busts 11 suspected of smuggling Chinese women Taiwan authorities have detained 11
people, including a senior immigration clerk, on
suspicion of collaborating with gangs that smuggle
Chinese women to the island for prostitution, local
media reported. 30-10-2006
Chinese students more open-minded to premarital sex Although Chinese college students are
more liberal to sex issue than before, they still don't
have enough knowledge about sex health. Many students
have little knowledge about contraception and there is
still a high rate of induced abortion among college
students, causing damage to their mental and physical
health. 21-10-2006
China: AIDS lecture sparks prostitution row A local health authority's decision
to lecture sex workers in a bid to curb the spread of
HIV/AIDS has ignited another round of public debate on
prostitution. 21-10-2006
Chinese surgeons 'succeed' with sex organ transplant Surgeons in China say they carried
out the world's first penis transplant. The doctors
claim the operation was a success - even though the
organ was later removed when the patient and his wife
suffered "psychological problems".
18-9-2006
Taipei prostitutes ask job be legalized Prostitutes in Taiwan's capital are
demanding their jobs be legalized again as 6 percent of
them have committed suicide in harsh living conditions.
18-9-2006
Pay me or I will sell nude phone clip HK TV star threatened by man who
finds her lost handphone. When her boyfriend lost his
handphone in a taxi, the Hong Kong television star
probably didn't think much of it. Then she received an
SMS from a stranger. 8-9-2006
Rainbow flag to grace Taipei city hall Civic officials sponsoring a gay
festival in Taipei, Taiwan, will hoist the rainbow flag
September 17 above the city hall in what they term a
first for an Asian city, the Taipei Times reports. The
annual "LGBT Civil Rights Movement-Queer-friendly
Taipei" has been hosted since 2000 by the city's
Department of Civil Affairs, with an annual budget of
about $30,000. 8-9-2006
Hong Kong sting traps sex offender Police posed as a 15-year-old girl on
the Internet to trap a teacher who was using chat rooms
to find underage victims for sex.
8-9-2006
Court rejects suit over right to sex A Chinese court has rejected a
woman's claims for compensation for her sex life, which
was ruined when her husband was injured in an accident,
the Shanghai Daily reported last week.
4-9-2006
China to probe TV commercial advertising potency drug A Chinese television
commercial that features businessmen boasting of how
they win over female clients with a potency drug has
come under attack from members of Internet forums,
prompting state TV authorities to launch an
investigation. 31-8-2006
Group dating popular among white collar in China Hu Liu blushed when a young man came
up to ask for her phone number. Dressed in a Chinese
gown, with delicate makeup, Hu sat quietly in her chair,
a little out of place in the bustling atmosphere inside
the hall. She timidly answered the man's questions.
31-8-2006
Exotic dancers banned from performing at funerals in China A striptease show is not
what most mourners would expect at a funeral. But the
more people that come to a funeral in China, the better
the deceased is likely to fare in the afterlife, which
is why some families have taken to hiring exotic dancers
to keep attendance figures high.
26-8-2006
Family life in modern China The
ancient Chinese sage Confucius once described the
harmony between husband and wife and children as "the
music of lutes and harps". The influence of Confucius on
Chinese family life - particularly his teachings on
filial piety and on the relationship between stable
family life and a stable state - is still felt today.
21-8-2006
HIV rife among Asian men Stigma, intolerance, and government
inaction are fuelling the rapid spread of HIV - the
virus that causes Aids - among gay and bisexual men in
Asia, says a report. 16-8-2006
Fixing the child porn loophole in Taiwan law Last month, the Ninth
Investigation Brigade of the Criminal Investigation
Bureau and the Taiwan chapter of the End Child
Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) campaign joined
forces to bust a Web site peddling child pornography
CDs. 1-8-2006
The 'pink parlours' of Lhasa Once a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage
destination, the Tibetan capital Lhasa is rapidly
turning into a hot spot of 'pink parlours' where flesh
trade thrives under China's modernisation drive, a US
couple says. 17-7-2006
Chinese sex education videos 'too boring' An American adult education video maker
is aiming to market its products in China, amid concerns
that citizens find Chinese-made family planning videos
'boring' and are turning to hardcore porn instead.
28-6-2006
China will not ban sex-selection abortions despite gender imbalance The Chinese
government has decided it will not prohibit abortions
used to prevent the birth of girl babies even though
sex-selection abortions have contributed to a stark
gender imbalance that is creating a host of social
problems. The nation's state-owned media reported the
plan to scrap the idea.
28-6-2006
China goes easy on poor, first-time prostitutes China will hand out relatively lenient
punishment to poor first-time prostitutes in the
country's booming east under updated laws on sex for
sale, state media reported on Friday.
6-6-2006
Increasing number of Chinese college students turn to prostitution A recent
investigation into an Internet-based prostitution ring
by police from Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province,
discovered that a significant number of the prostitutes
are female college students.
6-6-2006
China shuts down six porn websites Internet police in China's capital have
shut down six pornographic websites to prevent their
'negative' influence on society.
1-5-2006
Bra producers bust out D cups as breasts grow A recent report suggesting Chinese women
are growing larger breast made headlines around the
country, but it wasn't news to bra makers, many of whom
have been producing larger cup sizes for the last year.
27-4-2006
China slow to awake to need for sex education When Lao Li was a boy, sex was never
discussed at home or school. Little wonder, then, a
visit to Shanghai's Sex Culture Museum with its exhibits
of 1,000-year-old dildos and Ming dynasty pornographic
porcelain stunned him.
23-4-2006
China: Too many men As China's
President Hu Jintao makes his first official visit to
the United States this week, his nation faces a
demographic time bomb that could affect its stability.
20-4-2006
Sex museum sparks controversy in China China's first private sex museum in
Shanghai has sparked a row over plans to encourage
admission to young people and public discussion on sex
education for children.
20-4-2006
China launches sex education, HIV-prevention program aimed at truckers China has launched
a sex education program with support from international
organizations that provides long-distance truck and bus
drivers with decks of cartoon playing cards displaying
sexual health information at no cost.
5-4-2006
China: A lack of morals leads to sexual harassment The fight against sexual harassment has
been stepped up with new legislative penalties.
Following nine bills put up by 283 deputies to the
National People's Congress, China's top legislature, at
its last session in March 2005, the prohibition on
sexual harassment against women was written into the
revised Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and
Interests. 29-3-2006
Student prostitution arouses concern in China The newspaper Democracy & Law reports
that in a recent police operation the Hangzhou police
arrested 10 prostitutes, of which, astonishingly, half
turned out to be college students.
25-3-2006
Foreigners in China face deportation for texting porn China's new Law on Public Security
Administrative Penalties took effect last week, creating
165 new offenses and setting maximum penalties ranging
from 200 yuan ($25 US) to 15 days detention for Chinese
citizens all the way to deportation for foreigners.
25-3-2006
Sexual revolution sweeps China Sex
is gradually losing its status as a taboo subject in
China, heralding major changes in people's attitudes
toward sex. A large number of Chinese are getting into a
relationship that they call "living apart together"
(LAT) - living the life of a married couple with prior
agreement to separate if one partner so desires and to
control their sexual behaviour.
27-2-2006
China: Internet regulations to cut pornography China's Internet media and content
providers have pledged to protect cyberspace from
pornography, gambling and other "unhealthy content"
through self-regulation and legal measures.
27-2-2006
China: Members only restaurant, but not hard to swallow The menu at
Beijing's latest venue for its growing army of gourmets
is eye-watering rather than mouth-watering. China's
cuisine is renowned for being "in your face" - from the
skinned dogs at food markets to scorpion kebabs in
street stalls - and there is no polite way of describing
Guolizhuang. 20-2-2006
China: Two girls forced into prostitution Prosecutors in Minhang District laid
charges over the weekend against five minors who
allegedly forced two young women into prostitution.
Because they are minors, they were charged with the
lesser crime of detaining others illegally, instead of
forcing others into prostitution.
20-2-2006
20 HK men with HIV in net sex link Twenty men who met through the Internet
have been infected with HIV after having unsafe sex, the
first such cluster of cases in Hong Kong.
19-2-2006
Beijing karaoke eyed to curb drugs and prostitution The Government has ordered all karaoke
bars and nightclubs to install monitoring equipment and
"open up" private rooms in what it says is a crackdown
on drugs, prostitution and public safety.
19-2-2006
AIDS winding its way through China This ancient road has had many names: old
tea horse trail. The Burma Road. Route 320. But the
label that matters most today is one that appears on no
sign at all: the AIDS road.
8-2-2006
New law criminalizes sexual harassment in Taiwan Those who make
unwelcome advances toward members of the opposite sex or
tell obscene jokes in their presence may now get a
prison sentence for their troubles.
8-2-2006
China: Sex culture museum earns first profit Thanks to a new location and a growing
openness to sex, the city's sex culture exhibition hall
earned a profit last year for the first time ever.
8-2-2006
'Geisha' banned in China for fear of anti-Japanese reaction In the debate over
whether Hollywood overstepped some boundaries by using
Chinese actresses to portray Japanese geishas, China
made clear its position this week by banning Memoirs of
a Geisha. 8-2-2006
Lights out in Shenzhen's 'Mistress Village' A 36-year-old pimp who goes by the name
Zhao was about the only public face of the formerly
bustling sex trade in a Shenzhen district frequented by
Hong Kong visitors Friday, a day after an unlikely
public demonstration by an estimated 2,000 prostitutes
and owners and employees of the establishments that
cater to the visitors.
25-1-2006
Members of prostitution ring sentenced A local court recently sentenced 10
members of a criminal ring to jail terms ranging up to
12 years for organizing prostitution in the city since
June 2005, police announced Thursday.
15-1-2006
Hong Kong: Woman of the Year Hallyu star actress Lee Young-Ae, born
1971, topped the list in Hong Kong for Woman of the Year
in 2005. On December 31st, RTHK, a public network in
Hong Kong, released the results of a mail-based poll of
1,398 citizens. 13-1-2006
Chinese wives suing mistresses over gifted properties As the number of
mistresses grows in China, the question of whether
property given to them by their lovers is legally theirs
continues to be an issue. Judgments by local courts gave
the answer: The law does not protect the rights of the
mistresses given the property in most cases.
3-1-2006
Hong Kong gays fight sodomy laws, triggering debate in traditional society When
William Roy Leung made legal history in Hong Kong by
successfully challenging antigay laws, the 20-year-old
gay man told a crowd outside the courthouse he could
finally be in love without living in fear of being
thrown in jail. 3-1-2006
China says winning war on Internet pornography China is winning the war on Internet
pornography but it will be hard to eradicate entirely as
many Web sites are based outside of the country.
2-1-2006
China: Mixed reactions over campus sex education BBS Li Feng, a sophomore at
a Hebei university, used to feel sick over misguided
fear of having contracted STDs (sexually transmitted
diseases) despite not having any intimacy with his
lover. 29-12-2005
Desperate Housewives fail to turn on Chinese Chinese broadcasters tidied up Wisteria
Lane, the fictional suburban setting for the American
comedy series Desperate Housewives, cutting out some of
the sex and violence before its debut on state-run
television. 22-12-2005
Same-sex unions promoted in Taiwan Around a hundred people attended an
engagement ceremony for a gay couple on International
Human Rights' Day to urge the government to squarely
face homosexual rights issues in Taiwan, including
legalizing same-sex marriage and giving rights to
homosexual couples. 16-12-2005
China: Reporting porn Websites can bring money Guangdong public security department
agreed with local telecommunications companies to pay a
reward of up to 2,500 yuan (US$309) to people who report
porn Websites in the province, a Guangzhou-based
newspaper reported today.
16-12-2005
Sex scandals find a buyers' market in China Writing a kiss-and-tell novel about the
officials and financiers at the heart of China's
fledgeling financial markets is a venture hardly likely
to win approval from state censors.
12-12-2005
Chinese students lectured on dangers of sex trade Even by the standards of a country where
the divide between the private and public parts of
someone's life is often blurred, the situation at
Chongqing Normal University is unusual.
6-12-2005
Taiwan must combat human trafficking Taiwan must formulate and implement
comprehensive policies to curb human trafficking in and
out of our country in order to realizing our own
standards of building a human rights state and
fulfilling our obligations as a member of the
international community.
6-12-2005
WHO says AIDS may infect 10 mln in China by 2010 Some 10 million people
in China may be infected with the AIDS virus by 2010,
the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday, as
it called for stronger political will by Asian
governments to stop the spread of the disease.
4-12-2005
Number of HIV/AIDS patients reaches 130,000 in China More than 130,000
confirmed HIV/AIDS carriers and patients have been
reported nationwide by the end of September about 50,000
higher than the figure in the end of June last year.
1-12-2005
Hite's sex lecture fails to satisfy Chinese Dr Shere Hite, renowned US researcher on
sexuality and gender, received a less than warm response
from college students at Renmin University where she
delivered a lecture last week.
29-11-2005
Prostitutes, migrants need more sex education Prostitutes and migrant women in the city
need more access to sex education to reduce the spread
of sexual disease and cut down on the high abortion rate
in Shanghai. 29-11-2005
China's sexual blogolution Lost
Sparrow, Sister Lotus and other Chinese women are
changing the rules between the sexes -- and prompting
government censorship -- as they post intimate details
of their lives online.
24-11-2005
Forced work as bar girls in Hong Kong "We were deceived by illegal recruiters
who guaranteed us work in Hong Kong because when we
arrived there, we were made to work as GROs (guest
relation officers)." These were the complaints by five
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who said the illegal
recruiters. 24-11-2005
Hong Kong: Watchdog considers action over topless porn star photos The government's
media watchdog is considering acting against Oriental
Sunday Magazine after several people complained about
the publication running a photo of a topless porn star
on its cover recently.
24-11-2005
Convicted for prostitution ads in Hong Kong Watch what you advertise online in Hong
Kong. That seems to be the message of a sentence handed
down in a Hong Kong court this week.
23-11-2005
China: Police detain 9 for operating porn sites The four websites involved about 600,000
registered members. They were mainly managed by a gang
of young people in their twenties, while the servers
were based in the United States to evade the monitoring
of porn websites in China.
23-11-2005
HIV increase in gay Hong Kong Hong Kong's health department reports an
increase in the number of new HIV cases among gay men,
while the rate amongst heterosexual people remains
steady. 23-11-2005
Hong Kong: Groups urge media boycott over porn
Activist groups seek to shut down Chinese publications portraying excessive
sexuality. A coalition of 17 concern groups yesterday called for a boycott of
several Chinese newspapers and magazines over what they labelled "sleazy"
content.
9-11-2005
Controversial nude photography in China This
week, exotic flowers at Beijing's World Flowers Park no
longer appeared very exciting, as two naked models
posing in the park attracted all the photographers'
attention. 27-10-2005
1/4 Chinese women dissatisfied with sex life: poll About a quarter of
Chinese women are not satisfied with wedlock sexual
intercourse, according to the result of a nationwide
online poll released here Sunday.
27-10-2005
China busts 87 prostitution dens Guangzhou police closed down 87
suspected prostitution dens during a special cleanup
campaign targeting prostitution, gambling, online
pornography and fake certificates. 25-10-2005
China: Online vice ring cracked Police have cracked a prostitution
ring operating in Shanghai that was being masterminded
from Sichuan Province using the Internet, the Shanghai
Municipal Public Security Bureau announced this week.
14-10-2005
China's kids and sex ignorance Chinese kids being influenced by
the West isn't news. Many sport the baggy pants, tinted
hair, pierced body parts, and listen to hip-hop and make
all the right dance moves. But when it comes to their
bodies and sex, they could still learn a little
something. 14-10-2005
China: Sex-slave gets probation in theft Lian Mei, who drugged her abusive
sexual partner, a foreigner, and stole cash, cell phones
and other property, was sentenced to three years'
probation Monday. 4-10-2005
Prostitution in shrine makes Beijing see red Mixing prostitutes
and patriotism is dangerous business in China: five
people received jail sentences of up to 12 years for
running a call-girl ring in a revolutionary martyrs
shrine. 26-9-2005
Taiwan: Sperm extraction sparks controversy over legislation The controversy surrounding the
sperm extraction procedure from the body of late Army
company leader Sun Chi-hsiang yesterday continued to
occupy the center stage of public attention. 13-9-2005
China: Teenage girl offers sex education to peers When 18-year-old
Zhangshan prepared to teach her classmates how to
correctly use condoms, a huge gust of laughter burst out
in the classroom. However, Zhangshan continued her class
regardless and finally completed it successfully. 9-9-2005
China: Student gets clipped after massage turns nasty One is a social
elite, a college student who said he just wanted a
simple massage. The other says she is a simple beauty
parlor massage girl. Now, the two who were seemingly
distant to one another are linked in a legal case that
will have to be decided in court.6-9-2005
A deadly mix of violence, sex and expats The American wife of a high-flying
Merrill Lynch banker has been jailed for life in Hong
Kong for murdering her husband after disabling him with
a doped milkshake. 3-9-2005
China: Beware of nude web chats A Chinese researcher has warned of
a new threat to public health and morality - naked
internet chatting. 1-9-2005
Trafficking of women, children on rise worldwide: UN Human trafficking is
on the rise worldwide, with millions of women and
children ending up as sex slaves, beggars and mine
laborers each year, UN officials said on Tuesday. 1-9-2005
Pardons urged for jailed gays in Hong Kong
The High court's ruling on gay discrimination not only sparked a legal
challenge, but also demands for erasing past criminal records for consensual
sex between men under 21. 24-8-2005
China says sex ratio not related to policy A
Chinese official said Wednesday that China's birth ratio
of 100 girls to nearly 120 boys was not related to the
national family planning policy. 24-8-2005
Nun or prostitute? Tibet's women face few choices It's evening in
Shigatse and the lights are coming on. In the Chinese
district of the Tibetan mountain town, strings of fairy
lights flicker around rows of shopfronts where women
perch waiting for customers and men stumble out from
backroom corridors. 19-8-2005
Shanghai University to offer gay studies A university in
Shanghai is offering China's first class on
homosexuality and gay culture and several hundred
students have applied for the 100 openings, a professor
in charge of the course said Tuesday. 17-8-2005
China: Wild parties, orgies leave the Great Wall defiled The "Wild Dancing Party" recently
landed on China's flag construction -- the Great Wall.
However, while party animals from both home and abroad
celebrated with glee, the senior wall was wailing. 12-8-2005
Taiwan: Photo exhibition featuring comfort women opens The Taipei Women's
Rescue Foundation (TWRF) yesterday officially opened a
photography exhibition featuring local comfort women for
the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. 12-8-2005
Free films keep migrant workers off porn Wang Qingjun, a migrant
construction worker in Beijing, always goes to an
open-air cinema on weekends instead of playing cards and
shooting the breeze like he used to do. 11-8-2005
Internet lovers warned on sex crime in Taiwan Online predators: A
women's foundation and the police warned young people to
take basic precautions if they choose to make a
real-life date with an online pal. 11-8-2005
I'm no porn star, says Taiwanese actor Lee Kang Sheng Taiwanese art-house
master Tsai Ming Liang, 48, had no problem with the
controversy surrounding his latest film The Wayward
Cloud. Last week, he jokingly dared us to "promote my
movie as pornography". 7-8-2005
Shanghai expected to build memorial for wartime sex slaves After Japan's non-governmental
archives on comfort women opened on Aug. 1 in Tokyo, the
first comfort women memorial in China's mainland is
expected to be built in Shanghai. 7-8-2005
China: Mother sells teen girl's virginity for 10,000 yuan Prosecutors in Shanghai have
charged the owner of a small beauty parlor in Jiangsu
Province with selling her daughter's virginity and then
forcing the 17-year-old girl to have sex with the
businessman who paid to deflower her. 6-8-2005
Student expelled for sharing bed with girlfriend sues A 19-year-old student who was
expelled from Shanghai University in April after
teachers found his girlfriend had spent the night in his
dorm hired a lawyer yesterday, who will demand the
university reinstate Zhu Bin or issue a letter allowing
him to transfer to a different school. 3-8-2005
Bride-trafficking grows as the number of single men soars When 16-year-old Qing Yang was
kidnapped in Sichuan province last year and sold for
$360 to a desperate bachelor, it took her family and a
private detective six months to track her down in
Jiangsu province, hundreds of miles away. By then, she
had been raped and forced to live as the wife of the man
who bought her. 2-8-2005
Ancient China also cared about female sexual pleasure In ancient China, men played a
dominant role in social issues, politics, families, and
sexual affairs. Women were regarded as passive service
providers in sex and their role was to satisfy men. 29-7-2005
Woman gets girlfriend after sex change A 27-year-old Hakka
girl told a man, alias Gengzi, who had a sex change in
Guangzhou on Saturday she was willing to be his
girlfriend, the Southern Metropolis Daily said. 27-7-2005
Chinese skinny-dippers spark morality debate A heatwave in China
has led to a rash of nude swimming this summer, sparking
a moral debate over whether such skinny-dips should be
allowed, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. 27-7-2005
Yes to Miss Tibet, No to Miss Tibet-China Tibetan youths are
furious that Miss Tibet has been barred from
participating in a beauty pageant in Malaysia after
China lodged an official complaint with the organisers.
Beijing, in turn, wants Miss Tibet Tashi Yangchen to
compete as Miss Tibet-China instead. 23-7-2005
Fudan University relaxes sex rules for students
Love on campus is not a rare phenomena in China nowadays and now one
university is choosing to abandon rules governing student's personal while
others continue to enforce policies and penalizing students for what they
consider immoral behavior. 20-7-2005
No-nonsense rules forbidding pre-marital sex for Chinese students make no sense Revised rules
forbidding unmarried students from having sex could
lessen the punishment, while at the same time
emphasizing a regulation that many feel is pointless.
Fudan University students and legal professionals have
questioned the legitimacy of the draft code. 19-7-2005
China cracks down on the sex bloggers For the hundreds of
thousands of people who log on to Furong Jiejie's
website daily, her saucy self-portraits and delusional
diary entries ("I have a physique that gives men
nosebleeds") provide something to talk and laugh about
during breaks at work. But the dizzying rise of Furong,
who has become the most talked-about woman in China, has
prompted the Chinese government to assert further its
control over cyberspace. 19-7-2005
China: Women in miniskirts enter amusement park at half price In recent years, pornographic
elements have begun to enter China's markets. Century
Amusement Park, in Zhengzhou city, allows women over age
18 wearing miniskirts shorter than 38 centimeters (14.8
inches) to enter for half price from July 1 through
August 31. 19-7-2005
Injured
Chinese model Lin expected back home next week Injured model Chiling Lin is in
good condition and should return to Taiwan next week,
her agent said yesterday. Lin fell from a horse while
shooting a commercial in northern China last Friday, her
agent said earlier. Media reports said Lin was filming
in the northeastern port of Dalian. 14-7-2005
Hong Kong saves mother, baby from forced abortion in China Chinese officials tried to force a
mother who was visiting from Hong Kong to abort her
six-month-old fetus under China's one-child policy, but
Hong Kong's government intervened to save the unborn
baby. 13-7-2005
Early sex in the Chinese city a norm Boys and girls
between 14 and 20 in urban China have their first sexual
experience at the average age of 17.4, nearly nine years
earlier than their grandparents when they were young,
according to a survey published on Tuesday. 12-7-2005
China's sexual ignorance outnumbers illiteracy More Chinese are
ignorant to sex than to other knowledge, even including
those having received high education and experts of
other fields, according to Xu Tianming, president of the
China Sexology Society. 12-7-2005
Sex voucher for Japanese soldiers found in China A tiny little piece
of paper, found in a village in North China's Hebei
Province, appears to be hard evidence
rebutting Japanese government's claim of the absence of
sex slaves during World War II. 9-7-2005
Finding 'suitable' spouse gets difficult in China During her visit home for Chinese
New Year, Gan Xiaoge's parents lined up five suitors for
her, hoping the migrant worker, already considered an
old maid in her village, would finally get married. 8-7-2005
11 jailed in China's largest case of Internet porn Eleven people have been jailed for
up to 12 years for running an obscene website in China's
largest case of Internet pornography, the People's Court
Daily said. 4-7-2005
Sex oppression of migrant workers "Sex just once a
week is totally unbearable," reads complaint letter to a
popular newspaper based in Shenzhen, a boomtown in South
China's Guangdong Province that is built on the
shoulders of countless migrant workers. 1-7-2005
China to outlaw sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is soon to become a crime in China under new gender
equality laws, state media have said. Changes to laws protecting women's rights
which will outlaw harassment have been submitted to lawmakers. 28-6-2005
Chinese schoolgirls' 3-month rape nightmare ends The teacher always
sent a girl to buy his cigarettes. He left the class
unsupervised and waited in his office. When the girl
returned to class with flushed cheeks and tousled hair,
the other students said nothing to their parents. 22-6-2005
Chinese female applicant accuses professor of rape The woman at the heart of a sex
scandal at Beijing Jiaotong University said she was
raped by her professor. The woman said professor Ouyang
Lin, 51, threatened to fail her in an entrance
examination for a master's program if she refused to
have sex with him. 22-6-2005
China encourages couples to have girls in new program One of the most significant
problems resulting from the coercive one-child
population control policy in China has been the
disparity between the number of girl and boy babies
born. 21-6-2005
Shanghai: 149 sex-slave sites discovered Following 13 years
of research, a city historian has identified 149 sites
that were used by Japanese invaders to house the women
they forced into sexual slavery. His findings on the
World War II-era atrocities are documented in a new book
called "Shanghai Japanese Army Comfort House Records."
21-6-2005
Taiwan to lift pre-recorded porn ban Taiwan currently
prohibits local makers from undertaking OEM production
of pornographic pre-recorded discs for exports, although
some makers have illicitly done so in small volumes,
according to local industry sources. 17-6-2005
Southeast Asian women main human trafficking victims in Taiwan In a report on the well-being of
foreign wives married to Taiwanese men, Wang Mei-chuan,
foreign affairs section chief at the Chiayi County
Police Department, reported that an increasing number of
foreign women are singing the dirge of being forced into
sex slaves.
China's AIDS intervention on prostitutes, addicts sparks disputes "Intervention on high-risk groups
is very crucial and urgent to HIV/AIDS prevention and
control today. Health Ministry's plan is definitely
instructive to the work of local governments at all
levels," said Li Chaoliang, deputy director of HIV/AIDS
prevention and control office of southwest China's
Yunnan Province.
One year on: China shuts 1,800 porn sites in war on smut China has successfully shut down
more than 1,800 pornographic Web sites in one year in a
nationwide campaign, the state media reported on
Saturday. Since its debut on June 10 last year, the
centre has received 143,000 reports on Web sites with
pornographic or other illegal contents.
China:
Little sex knowledge means more abortions More than half of
the women in Shanghai who had abortions last year did
not use any reliable form of contraception. At least 60
percent of the 200,000-plus Shanghai women who had at
least one abortion last year did not use
contraception.
Online marriage a mixed
blessing in China More than half of
the women in Shanghai who had abortions last year did
not use any reliable form of contraception. At least 60
percent of the 200,000-plus Shanghai women who had at
least one abortion last year did not use
contraception.
Sino-US
programme targets HIV/AIDS US Global AIDS
Coordinator Randall Tobias, who made the announcement at
a press conference in Beijing yesterday, said a close
partnership between China and the United States was
vital for tackling the disease.
Taiwanese
man nabbed for running same-sex, pedophile web site The Criminal Investigation Bureau
(CIB) yesterday arrested a man suspected of running
Taiwan's largest pornographic Web site specializing in
same-sex and pedophile sex films. The CIB investigators
seized 6,000 discs with pornographic content.
A sexual revolution silently going on in China Li Yinhe, China's
first female sociologist on sex issues, was born in
Beijing in 1952. She is currently the researcher and
mentor of doctorates with the Institute of Sociology at
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Don't miss the shrimp hiding in her navel The State
Administration of Industry and Commerce has finally
banned Chinese restaurants from serving sushi on the
naked bodies of young women. The administration has
officially issued a notice to a restaurant in
southwestern China, which put the order into effect.
Comfort women houses revealed The Japanese army
established seven "comfort women" houses in Haikou,
capital of South China's Hainan Province, during World
War II, two senior citizens said in a letter to the
media.
Guangdong offers
gays free AIDS tests Southern China's
Guangdong province recently began providing free and
confidential access to AIDS and HIV tests to gay men.
The move will last one month and is designed to be an
annual event.
Hong Kong holds first
gay rally Waving flags of
rainbow colours, 16 gay and gay-friendly organisations
rallied through one of the busiest streets in Hong Kong
to mark the first International Day Against
Homophobia.
Child
abuse widespread in China: study The first-ever study
into child abuse in China suggests it is widespread,
with children raped, molested and bullied, state media
said yesterday.
Hong Kong
prostitutes go hi-tech Prostitutes in Hong
Kong have gone hi-tech and are advertising their
services through cellphone voice and text messages, a
report said on Monday. Hong Kong, second only to Taiwan,
is a leading the world in terms of mobile penetration -
with 105.75 mobile phones for every 100 people in Hong
Kong.
