Songkran:
Hard holiday for ladyboys The Thai New Year celebration
every April is the world's largest water fight
that young and old, foreign and Thai alike enjoy
and participate in the revelry. However for
Thailand's transsexual ladyboys - also known as
'katoeys' in Thai - it can be an annoying and
precarious
holiday. 14-4-2007
Japan: Being a hostess An American
woman goes undercover to play to the crowd of salarymen
in a Tokyo hostess bar. Through a haze of karaoke, booze
and silly conversation, life become one endless night.
31-12-2006
Korean hookers busted in US visa scam Police have busted 42 prostitutes for
using forged documents to get a US visa. Police in Seoul
also detained a broker identified as Kim (47) on charges
of faking a variety of documents to help them get the
visas. 31-12-2006
Despite law, sex with minors goes unpunished in Israel Last August, police
arrested Vadim Bartel, 41, on suspicion of engaging a
15-year old girl as a prostitute. The police caught him
red-handed, as he sent the girl to a client's home. The
client had requested "fresh meat." Bartel was accused of
pimping. 24-12-2006
Thai Junta: Sex tours no more Westerners who plan to visit Thailand for
sex have recently received a new, stark warning from the
government's new military government, be warned: we are
out to stop you. 16-12-2006
Cambodia: Another kind of war In
Cambodia, hundreds, if not thousands of young girls and
women are bought and sold, smuggled out of their
villages into the larger cities of Cambodia or taken out
of the country to places like Thailand and Malaysia -
all for the purposes of turning them into sex slaves.
16-12-2006
Prostitutes tell of abuse, abandonment A
growing number of South Korean males in their late teens
and early 20s are going to Southeast Asian countries to
buy sex, as the crackdown on the sex trade here is
intensifying, a report showed.
16-12-2006
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
Malaysia: 'Prostitutes must be whipped' Malaysian lawmakers have called for
foreign prostitutes to be whipped as a deterrent to
others considering coming here to work in the sex
industry, a report said this week.
9-12-2006
'Why atom bomb? End prostitution,' says Iranian Nobel laureate Iran may be toying
with the idea of acquiring a nuclear weapon, but Nobel
laureate Shirin Ebadi argues that the money needed for
making an atom bomb can be better used for a more
pressing need - ending prostitution and sexual
trafficking of women. 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: 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
Asian sex ring busted in US A
Highlands Ranch couple and a Thornton woman have been
charged with running a Korean prostitution ring out of
three Denver-area "brothels," using women they flew in
from out of state. 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
Five in Kuwait facing charges of prostitution The Department of Foreign Affairs
yesterday endorsed the prosecution of five Filipino
workers in Kuwait who were arrested and accused of
involvement in a white slavery ring that had a
17-year-old Filipino domestic helper among its victims.
24-11-2006
Sexy soul sisters shine in Shinjuku Stroll down the street in Shinjuku's
sprawling adult entertainment zone, Kabukicho, and
you're likely to be propositioned by a horde of
aggressive black touts, who entice passers-by with
offers of the area's many corporeal delights.
18-11-2006
Japan's oldest profession sees slide in work ethic Changes to the law regarding adult
entertainment earlier this year were supposed to be a
boon for Japan's burgeoning call girl industry, but
they've been a flop, according to Weekly Playboy.
18-11-2006
Bahrain: Niece forced into sex trade A prostitute has told how her own uncle
brought her to Bahrain to work in a vice den, having sex
with up to eight men a day, on fixed shifts.
5-11-2006
Qatar: Nine women arrested for alleged involvement in prostitution Nine Filipinas
have been arrested for alleged involvement in
prostitution, following a police complaint filed by
Philippine authorities on behalf of three women, who had
been tricked into prostitution.
5-11-2006
Prison for Asian sex slave gang Six
men who made up a human trafficking gang that forced
Malaysian women to work as prostitutes in the UK have
been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
5-11-2006
Japan: Boot camp for hookers It's
0530 in the morning and you're out walking your dog
along the bank of river in a rural district northeast of
Tokyo. Suddenly you hear the staccato footfall of a
group of runners approaching. Emerging from the early
morning mist are four females in their 20s clad in gym
uniforms, and one male, looking for all the world like a
drill sergeant putting new recruits through their paces.
30-10-2006
Sex traffickers target women in war-torn Iraq Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in
Baghdad sold her off as a domestic worker in one of the
prosperous Gulf nations. Instead, she was forced into
the sex trade "I was a virgin and didn't understand what
sex was. I was told that they [the traffickers] were
going to get good money for my first night with an old
local man who paid for my virginity. He was aggressive
and hit me all the time," Mariam.
30-10-2006
India: Sex workers set up co-op Sex workers of Sonagachhi were never
allowed to open bank accounts. So, they set up their own
cooperative, and a good one at that.
30-10-2006
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
Korea: Do the anti-prostitution laws protect sex dolls? A "doll experience room" is
a place punters rent for some W25,000 (approx. USD
$26.00) an hour, a fee that includes a bed, a computer,
and an inflatable sex doll.
15-10-2006
Alleged sex slaver asks to run Thai tours An Australian hairdresser facing the
nation's first charges of importing Thai sex slaves has
begged the court to return his passport so he can take
tourists to Thailand and Southeast Asia.
15-10-2006
Flipside: Male prostitution in Chiang Mai It was a delightfully hedonistic affair:
generously heaped platters of snacks laid out on
sparkling surfaces, a perennial flow of fine wine and
cocktails, and two luscious, attentive barmen clad only
in jeans and their six-packs. One of them - dark, tall
and muscled - caught my eye as I walked in and stared at
me intently with a practiced gaze until I looked away.
1-10-2006
Cambodia gets tough on child sex trade Arrests of foreigners for charges related
to child prostitution have doubled since last year.
Cambodian police this year have arrested at least 12
foreigners on charges of sexually abusing children -
more than twice the amount snagged all of last year.
1-10-2006
Asian gangs 'exploiting NZ's prostitution laws' Asian gangs are exploiting changes in
prostitution laws to run lucrative illegal brothels in
New Zealand, United Future MP Gordon Copeland says.
1-10-2006
Pakistan: Marginalised male sex workers vulnerable to HIV/AIDS Under the illuminated
Minar-e-Pakistan, the towering monument that marks the
birth of the country, Pervaiz Din lays out the
accessories of his trade. The tiny bottles of massage
oil and aromatic colognes tinkle cheerfully as he pulls
them out of a cloth bag and sets them out on a tray.
Through much of the balmy September night, Pervaiz will
await customers who seek a soothing roadside massage, a
head rub - or something more.
24-9-2006
India: Dance bars facilitate prostitution Dance bars in Mumbai have become
outlets for cheap sex, some even doubling up as
brothels. It is a switch that bar owners seem to have
accepted without too much reluctance.
24-9-2006
Korea: Anti-prostitution law gets makeover for second birthday September 23 was the second
birthday of the Special Law on Prostitution, whose
positive effects are still hotly contested, though the
law has had one clear effect: sending massive numbers of
Korean sex-workers abroad.
24-9-2006
Korean 'sex tourists' may lose passports South Korean "sex tourists" could lose
their passports under new proposals to crack down on
prostitution at home and abroad, media reports said this
week. 24-9-2006
Korea: Illegal sex trade dying hard Police declared Sept. 23, 2004, as the
last day for legal prostitution in the country. Two
years later, however, it seems that the clampdown on
illegal sex will require much more than just shutting
down brothels, as the sex industry enjoys a rebound
using underground means, such as massage parlors, bars,
private homes and the Internet.
18-9-2006
Russian mayor wants prostitution legalized to fight extremism The mayor of a
coal mining town in the Komi Republic of Russia is
asking the government to legalize prostitution with the
aim of arresting the increasing number of extremist
violence in the region.
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
Foreigners join sex industry Immigration authorities are cracking down
on foreigners working illegally in New Zealand's sex
industry. 18-9-2006
India: Panel in quandry over legalising prostitution Should prostitution be legalised?
This is the question that the parliamentary standing
committee studying amendments to the Immoral Traffic
(Prevention) Act (ITPA) is faced with.
18-9-2006
Prostitution in Indonesia just a newspaper away In Indonesia, newspaper readers who are
tired of daily politics and endless domestic problems
sometimes skip the headlines that makes them frown and
turn to the classified advertisements.
8-9-2006
India an 'all-rounder' in sex trade India has the dubious distinction of
being a sort of 'all-rounder' in the sex trade. It is
one of the very few countries in the globe that rank
high as origin, destination as well as transit points in
this murky business. 8-9-2006
Seoul denies human trafficking accusations Seoul officials yesterday challenged the
United States' portrayal of Korea as ``a frequent
destination for trafficked women and children from the
former Soviet Union and neighboring Asian nations.''.
8-9-2006
Ukraine appeals for action to stop human trafficking Ukrainian
officials Wednesday warned that human trafficking
threatened to become a major problem for this ex-Soviet
republic, and appealed for more international efforts to
stop it. 8-9-2006
4 in Japan charged with human trafficking Four businessmen have been charged in
Japan with bringing young women in illegally from Russia
and Ukraine to work as nightclub hostesses, a report
says. 31-8-2006
Japanese cops halt enterprising sex services An enterprising young man widely regarded
as the King of Adult Entertainment on Air Mats has been
arrested after flaunting the law once too often,
according to Weekly Playboy. 26-8-2006
Police crack down on prostitution in Agra More and more girls, some still
infants, are being groomed to become prostitutes in the
Taj Mahal city of Agra. But the police are determined to
end it all. 26-8-2006
For Asian brothels' victims, what now? The numbers are jaw-dropping, even to
those familiar with the evils of human trafficking. More
than 45,000 women and children are trafficked into the
United States every year, lured by the promise of honest
work and forced instead to work as sex slaves.
21-8-2006
Seems to be no stop to teen prostitution A teenage girl fiddles with her cell
phone outside Uguisudani Station in Tokyo on a recent
weekday afternoon. She stands out in this gritty
neighborhood, with her brightly dyed blond hair, denim
miniskirt, and blouse opened to reveal a cleavage.
1-8-2006
Sex worker and property mogul A
Sydney woman has turned her work in two suburban
brothels into a $2.3million property portfolio, with a
little help from a former client.
1-8-2006
Japan: Being a mistress for hire can backfire Miho, 29, had a good thing going with her
former beau, a 37-year-old executive of a cell-phone
company. The couple met regularly for romantic dates and
he showered her with expensive gifts.
1-8-2006
Sex trade a lucrative in Malaysia The lucrative sex trade is attracting not
only local but also foreign women, some as young as 14
years old, with vice syndicates in the country raking in
at least RM1mil daily.
1-8-2006
Shibuya's sleazy happening bars offer chaotic, erotic action at bargain prices "Are you sure
this place is all right?" Sayaka whispers nervously.
Sayaka's reaction to this out-of-the-way club in Tokyo's
Shibuya district, located in the corner of a nondescript
building off Miyamasuzaka Street, may be understandable.
She's never been to a "happening bar" before, and this
place looks, well, sleazy.
17-7-2006
The 'pink parlors' 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
Arabs encouraged to pay for sex with women in Indonesia Indonesia's vice
president said he saw nothing wrong with Arab men paying
local women to marry and then divorcing them days or
hours later, and suggested the practice - dismissed by
critics as legalized prostitution - could boost tourism.
5-7-2006
Prostitution growing in India, says survey From poverty to erosion of values,
several factors are pushing more and more women and
young girls to take to prostitution all over India, says
a new study.
5-7-2006
India: Man kills sister for prostitution A man strangled his 18-year-old
sister to death in a fit of anger over her involvement
in a prostitution racket and then hid the body for two
days in a West Bengal town.
11-6-2006
Japan: Slamming the brakes on human trafficking Its legal teeth sharpened, the government
is getting ready to take a bite out of human
trafficking. It has set up a Japan-Thai task force to
step up investigations and protect victims, and in May
sent a fact-finding mission to Indonesia.
11-6-2006
'Sophisticated' prostitution ring broken up in Vietnam A high-profile prostitution ring
involving high school and university graduates was
uncovered by Ho Chi Minh City police Thursday after a
three month investigation.
11-6-2006
Korean student sells sex to pay rent Four years ago, Suzie and her parents
moved from South Korea to New Zealand. But Suzie's
father could not find work, and her mother's food
business failed. So they decided to go back to Korea,
and they wanted their daughter to join them. But Suzie
decided to stay in New Zealand because she enjoyed the
freedom there. 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 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
Thai women lured to prostitution in Japan Over 5,000 Thai women have been lured
into prostitution in Japan through promises of foreign
marriages, the Bangkok Post said Friday.
27-5-2006
Korean sex workers and the spoiled American dream Her friend left five years ago for
America. Worked as a prostitute in Texas. Returned to
South Korea. And killed herself. "Because of the debt,"
Lee Tee-hee said. 27-5-2005
Korean entertainers suspected of engaging in prostitution racket Three entertainers
have been caught illegally operating a bar in southern
Seoul in which they allegedly arranged sex between
clients and other entertainers, in collaboration with an
organized criminal ring.
19-5-2005
Malaysia: Massage parlours 'a front for prostitution' The message on massage parlours is
clear: They are little more than a front for female and
male prostitution. Senator Datin Dr Nik Azizah Nik Yahya
had fellow senators nodding when she said that some
massage parlours offered more than the kneading of tired
muscles. 19-5-2006
Sexual exploitation rising in Azerbaijan For the last several years the number of
women transported to Azerbaijan for sexual exploitation
has grown. Azer Allahveranov, head of Migration Resource
Center of Azerbaijan (MRCA), and an expert for migration
affairs has said. 19-5-2006
Cops take six hours to 'raid' Pakistani prostitution den? The Mobina Town police
have arrested six women and three men from an alleged
prostitution den in Gulistan-e-Johar during a raid that
reportedly continued for more than six hours.
7-5-2006
ULFA using Delhi sex workers for extortion The outlawed United Liberation Front of
Asom (ULFA) has been using call girls from Delhi as
baits to extort and kidnap businessmen in Assam to raise
funds, police here said this week.
7-5-2006
Sai Baba saved us from brothels Nearly 2,000 bar girls from across the
city have left for Shirdi to thank Sai Baba for the high
court ruling that overturned the ban on dance bars in
Maharashtra. The bar girls say it kept them from being
forced to take up prostitution to survive.
7-5-2006
Kolkata sex workers seek recognition as labourers The 'City of Joy', Kolkata, chimed with
the cry for justice on Monday as thousands of sex
workers holding torches and dressed in vibrant red,
marched through the city seeking recognition as
labourers on the occasion of World Labour Day.
7-5-2006
There's hope for kids of Delhi's red light area Nischay, a seven-year old boy from the
capital's sleazy red light area, wants to be rich and
famous like Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and get his
ailing mother treated by the world's best doctor.
7-5-2006
Wife 'forced into sex trade' in Qatar A foriegn woman, whose nationality was
not identified, has sued her husband for divorce for
forcing her into prostitution, a local Arabic daily said
this week. 1-5-2006
South Korea to crack down on sex trade South Korean police have decided to
strengthen a crackdown on the sex trade at bars and
massage shops in 24 areas across the country.
1-5-2005
Israel: Ex-cop suspected of trafficking A Northern District Police unit detained
on Sunday 14 people suspected of women's trafficking and
in forcing the women into prostitution in the Haifa
area. Two of the suspects are believed to be the
leaders. 1-5-2006
Sri Lanka shuts down pioneer e-commerce sex service Sri Lanka's
immigration authorities have closed an internet-based
commercial sex service. The service run by persons of
Ukrainian origin, and solicited clients via the website
www.bananaescort.net, after two months of operations
when detectives busted the operation.
27-4-2006
'Israel among worst human traffickers' A report released this week by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has cited
Israel as among the top destinations in the trafficking
of human beings, either for sexual exploitation or
forced labor. 27-4-2006
Heavy influx of bar girls from M'rashtra to Goa Around 600 dance bar girls are eking out
a living in Goa following closure of bars in Maharashtra
last year, said Varsha Kale, Honorary President of
Bhartiya Bar Girls Union (BBGU), even as Goa police
denied presence of any such girl in the state.
27-4-2006
Maharashtra's dance bar girls see ray of hope Sitting in her one-room hole-in-the-wall
flat of a ramshackle building in a Mumbai suburb, former
bar worker Ruby can't wait for the day she can wear her
colourful costumes once again.
23-4-2006
Russian prostitution crackdown in Spain Police said this week they had
arrested 100 people in a crackdown on a prostitution
ring which brought Russian women to Spain.
23-4-2006
Prostitution of Israeli youth Over 1000
minors fell into prostitution over the course of 2005,
according to the annual report published by Elem, a
non-profit organization that provides outreach to youth
in distress. 20-4-2006
Prostitution and American GIs In 2003,
the Office of the Inspector General in the US Department
of Defense initiated a global assessment of "US military
activities that promote and facilitate sex trafficking."
The assessment was conducted in two phases, first in
South Korea and then in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.
5-4-2005
Sex work in Yemen to pay expenses A recent study about the sex industry in
Yemen emphasized the necessity of treating the situation
of women who fall into the abyss of prostitution. It
criticized the lack of government social welfare
programs that do not include ways to prevent women from
sliding into prostitution and beggary.
5-4-2006
Sex workers refuse rehabilitation, want to continue Government's plans
for their rehabilitation notwithstanding, commercial sex
workers have refused to leave their "profession" saying
they are "happy" doing it and do not wish to exercise
"any other options". 29-3-2006
Lebanon: Child prostitution still rife, despite laws At a glance, Nadine (not her real name)
is an innocent, 16 year-old-girl, but a conversation
with her soon reveals the shocking details of the hard
life she endured as a child. "I didn't choose to work as
a prostitute," she said. "It's just my luck in life."
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
4000 sex workers stage protest march in Delhi Demanding right to dignified life, about
4000 sex workers, transgender and sexual minorities
staged a protest march in the capital last week on the
occasion of International Women's Day.
25-3-2006
Yemeni teens trade sex for gaming In the past 15 years, video games and
playstation entertainment shops have spread remarkably
in most Yemeni cities. Nearly every neighborhood has one
or more video game shops where children and teenagers
spend much time for entertainment. Parents complain that
video games influence their children's behavior.
27-2-2006
Japan firms urge tourists off child prostitution Japanese travel agents are urging
tourists not to sexually exploit children on overseas
trips but admitted today after that after a year of
effort they still have not done enough.
20-2-2006
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
Afghan parliament discuss prostitution Senators of the Afghan parliament
Wednesday raised issues of prostitution, using alcohols
and deteriorating situation in the country.
19-2-2006
Nepali girls trafficked for prostitution From different areas of Nepal, girls and
women from various backgrounds continue to be forced
into prostitution. Girls are sold either by their
parents or brothers, of can be trafficked as a result of
a relative betraying the family.
9-2-2006
Korea: Ladies of the 1950s nights In 1947 the US military government in
Korea made prostitution illegal, and in 1948 the
parliament of the newly established Republic of Korea
upheld the ban. However, there was a major problem with
the law: nobody took it seriously.
8-2-2005
Pakistani, Indian girls being forced into prostitution in Middle East In a startling case of
organised women trafficking that has come to light,
Pakistani and Indian girls aged between 11 and 13 are
being smuggled to the Middle East countries for being
forced into prostitution there.
8-2-2006
US lawmakers want to ban overseas sex tours Travel agents wouldn't be able to
book or sell "sex tours" under a measure lawmakers are
considering, following the lead of Hawaii, which signed
a similar bill into law two years ago.
28-1-2006
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
India as haven for child sex tourism Jameela (14) and Ashfaq (12) are
part-time cleaners of houseboats in Kerala's backwaters.
Their employer has told them they have to entertain
foreign guests in a "different" way.
25-1-2006
Tsunami aid maroons Thai sex workers After the tsunami, Thailand's sex workers
say they were shunned by most relief efforts, even
though they pitched in to help with the immediate
recovery effort. One advocacy group proved the exception
and opened its doors to them.
15-1-2006
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
Once a bar girl, always a dancer Last August, the state ordered all dance
bars shut across Maharashtra. It left thousands of bar
dancers jobless. Some resorted to prostitution, some
became waitresses at bars-and now some will enter the
fringes of big, bad Bollywood.
13-1-2006
Women's group to launch campaign against prostitution in Kashmir The leader of Indian
Kashmir's only female separatist group said Tuesday that
she planned to launch a new campaign against
prostitution, even though her previous attempt landed
her in prison. 13-1-2006
Prostitution ruling nothing new for USFK troops US Forces Korea officials said Tuesday
there has been no specific push to alert troops to an
Oct. 14 presidential order that makes soliciting a
prostitute a chargeable offense under Article 134 of the
Uniform Code of Military Justice.
13-1-2005
Mumbai bar raided, 45 held Late
Thursday night, the Andheri police arrested 23 former
bar dancers, who had allegedly taken to prostitution,
from an Andheri (East) bar. In all, 45 persons-23 former
bar dancers, the bar owner, 11 employees and 10
customers-were arrested at around 11 pm.
3-1-2006
UAE: Report on Indian expats submitted The Indian mission in the UAE has
submitted a detailed report on the problems facing the
Indian expatriates, especially the labour force, to the
government of India, urging it to find solutions,
Khaleej Times has learned.
29-12-2005
India: Blood, sex, sugar, magic "My
mother has been forcing me into prostitution since April
this year. She has also used black magic and fed me with
something that makes me nauseous, to persuade me into
doing all this," said Renuka Patel, who is only 14 years
old. 29-12-2005
Japan: Plight of the underpaid office ladies Mieko's rapid descent into poverty has
dizzied her, but she's more typical than she perhaps
knows, says Spa!. With Christmas merry-making at its
height, the magazine draws our attention to a new social
underclass: that of the underpaid office ladies (dubbed
"OL's" in Japan). 22-12-2005
Kuwait: Billiard hall hostesses held The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor
in coordination with police and under the supervision of
Hamad Al-Madhadhi, Assistant Undersecretary of the Labor
Affairs at the ministry have arrested 36 Asian women
working for billiard halls in Mangaf and Fintas in
violation of residence laws.
22-12-2005
9 held for prostitution in India The Gandhigram police arrested three
women and six men, on Saturday, for alleged involvement
in a prostitution racket, being operated from Yogeshwar
apartment on University Road.
22-12-2005
Indian prostitute sparks storm with book This attractive, largely uneducated
mother of two is a best-selling author and prostitute
whose outspoken views of sex work as a career choice
have stirred controversy in conservative India.
16-12-2005
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
Prostitution ring earned 100 million yen using underage girls The operators of a
Fukuoka-based prostitution ring called "Candy Club" sent
61 teenage girls to customers some 3,000 times over an
18-month period beginning in March last year, raking in
sales of about 100 million yen, police investigators
have learned. 29-10-2005
For Nepal's cabin girls, survival is key Every night, Kathmandu's dance and cabin
restaurants are flooded with men high on lust. They bid
the day goodbye with a young "cabin girl" in one hand
and a beer bottle in the other.
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
Prostitution of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothels The prostitution of
Nepalese girls aged between 12-18 years remains
prevalent in brothels in the Indian cities, according to
a study by Switzerland based Voluntary organization
'Terre des hommes Foundation'.
23-11-2005
Indonesia: Two held for duping girls into prostitution The owner of a labor recruitment agency
and its president director were arrested over the
weekend for allegedly duping at least 58 Indonesian
girls into prostitution in
Japan. 9-11-2005
Sex for sale on rise among Singapore's youth Increasing numbers of young girls in
Singapore are offering sex for sale on Internet
chatrooms, shrugging the transaction off without any
remorse or fear of AIDS.
25-10-2005
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. 24-10-2005
Union pushes for sex worker visas in Australia Most Asian sex workers trafficked into
Australia want to go on working as prostitutes and
should be given visas, says a sex industry union. A sex
workers association forum in Melbourne was told Asian
sex slavery in Australia was largely a myth.
19-10-2005
Filipina farmers turn to sex work She
has the burnt skin and sturdy frame of a farm worker.
Last month, Gina (not her real name) left the rice
fields of Montalban to work as a GRO in a Caloocan night
club so she could earn enough money to buy medicines for
her 11-year-old daughter.
19-10-2005
Rise in sex workers a cause for worry in India While Himachal Pradesh remains a
favourite tourist draw, a rise in the number of sex
workers at its resorts and the consequent threat of
HIV/AIDS are worrying officials.
19-10-2005
Job brokers held for human trafficking Police on Sunday arrested a Korean job
broker suspected of luring some 200 women into
prostitution in the US and elsewhere.
19-10-2005
India: Where prostitution is a tradition Life in the world's oldest profession is
a dreary one. And no one knows this better than the
womenfolk of Natpurwa where prostitution is worshipped.
This small village with a population of 1,200 is located
in Hardoi district, 60 km from state capital Lucknow.
18-10-2005
Filipina sex worker joins campaign vs prostitution Lydia (not her real name) was raped by
someone in her family, forced to work as a prostitute,
and had three children by different men she never knew.
She, however, refuses to be called a victim. She has
risen above the scourge of trafficking and prostitution.
Lydia is a survivor.
18-10-2005
Hotel running prostitution racket destroyed in India A hotel located at New
Checkon bazar under Porompat police station which was
allegedly involved in a prostitution racket was attacked
and dismantled by the womenfolk of the area late Monday
afternoon at around 3:30 pm.
18-10-2005
Korea's sex trade thrives on Internet amid crackdown on brothels He is a 32-year-old single
office worker in Seoul who used to visit red-light
districts in Miari and Chongnyangni in Seoul. But since
the government declared war on prostitution last
September, he no longer goes out; he goes on-line.
14-10-2005
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
Parlours raided for rubbing up the 'wrong' way At least 17
people were arrested in three separate raids on beauty
and massage parlours at Goregaon and Dahisar over the
last two days. All the parlours have been charged with
running prostitution rackets under the guise of beauty
and massage
treatment. 14-10-2005
India's male sex workers breathe easy From living in seclusion and operating
under fear of social ostracism, community male sex
workers offering services to males in Kerala are today
doing business with more
ease. 11-10-2005
Man succeeds, where US government fails The US government and its current
administration are cutting funding and setting
unrealistic boundires in donations to 'safen' human
sexualtiy in Asia while one the most unlikely characters
- a US sex industry mogul - is working to insure sex is
safe in Asia. 11-10-2005
Malaysia: Longing for a normal life The wants to set up home with her
husband, get a respectable job and spend quality time
with their four-month-old son.
10-10-2005
Korea's anti-prostitution campaign The government's implementation of a
special law to prevent prostitution a year ago today has
been half successful. Brothels and prostitutes have
fallen considerably in number, with far more men
thinking that buying sex is a crime or at least a
shameful act. 24-9-2005
Korea: Sex workers' union? Some
220 prostitutes near Camp Humphreys, the sprawling U.S.
Army camp in Pyongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, have formed
an organization which its promoters hope to be
recognized as a trade union.
28-9-2005
Philippines: Voices we may never hear The
complexity of children being trafficked for commercial
sexual purposes in the Philippines has become a
phenomenon, and it has already endangered the "child"
generation. 29-9-2005
Russia: Calls made for crack down on vice Russia must take urgent measures to stem
a rapid growth in child pornography on the Internet and
child sex trafficking that makes the country a major
supplier for the global pedophilia market, Russian and
international experts warned on Monday.
29-9-2005
India: The part-time lover? Prostitution has moved out of the city's
red light domain and has acquired an up-market and
mobile character, thanks to some phoney model
coordinators and beauticians fixing up deals between
their prosperous clients in the city.
28-9-2005
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
Vietnam labouring to rid the country of human traffickers It's 9am and
35-year-old Nguyen Hoang Loan is waiting in anticipation
near Long Bien market, hoping someone may hire her for a
day's honest work. "The sun has already come up and I
have still yet to find any work today," she laments.
24-9-2005
Asia hunts sex tourists When
police arrived at the ramshackle computer shop at the
Baligbago village in Philippines' Angeles City, the
Canadian had vanished. Huddled inside were six Filipinas
who were cybersex models.
13-9-2005
Thai women 'lured into prostitution' The House Committee on Labour has
scheduled a meeting for Wednesday to investigate a spate
of marriages between Thai women and Taiwanese men which
have allegedly resulted in the women becoming
prostitutes in Taiwan.
13-9-2005
Turkmenistan: Prostitution on the rise Poverty remains the driving-force behind
rising levels of prostitution in the energy-rich state
of Turkmenistan, where upwards of 44 percent of the
country's population reportedly lives on less than US $2
per day.
7-9-2005
Sex workers fight for Mumbai bar girls Thousands of women under Asia's biggest
conglomerate of sex workers on Thursday took to the
street to protest Maharashtra government's ban on dance
bars girls. 7-9-2005
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
India: Call center employees caught in sex racket Less than 100
metres from the Karaya police station, 27-year-old Jason
Anthony had been running a sex racket for the last
one-and-a-half years, operating out of three rented
apartments on the second floor of a building on 11 Tarak
Dutta Road. 3-9-2005
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
Yemeni tourism: Focus on lust and corruption Recently, Yemen has seen a dramatic rise
in the number of visitors flocking to spend their summer
vacation in this culturally rich country. Tourists from
many countries have arrived in this surge, including
those from Asia, Europe and Yemen's 'Gulf State'
neighbors. 31-8-2005
Russian women driven to prostitution abroad Driven by family poverty and low pay,
Katrina finally accepted a job offer as waitress at a
restaurant in Bangkok. The job turned out to mean
striptease and prostitution.
31-8-2005
Soviet ghosts haunt Kazakh AIDS policy As midnight approaches on Sina Street in
Almaty, one of Kazakhstan's main cities, groups of young
female sex workers stand in the shadows by small hotels,
giggling, swigging beer from bottles and smoking.
31-8-2005
Born into brothel, son chronicles mother's profession Move over
the stereotyped portrayals of sex workers in literature
and movies. Now a new book by the son of a sex worker
does a reality check on the life of women in the city's
mean streets. 24-8-2005
American arrested in Philippine cybersex raid Philippine police arrested a 39-year-old
American man after raiding a "cybersex" den he was
suspected of running near a former US airforce base
north of the capital Manila, officials said on Tuesday.
24-8-2005
Indonesia: 67 foreigners nabbed for prostitution Jakarta Police have nabbed 67 female
foreigners for allegedly working as prostitutes at
entertainment centers, beauty salons and sauna houses,
police spokesman Sr. Comr. Tjiptono said on Wednesday.
24-8-2005
Filipino maids in the UAE: sex and violence The charges are made by a group of
emigrant workers in the United Arab Emirates. The group
is calling on Manila to file a formal protest and to
review diplomatic links with Dubai.
24-8-2005
Six foreign restaurants sealed in Kabul The Afghan government sealed six foreign
restaurants in the central capital for alleged
involvement in wine selling and other illicit practices.
Abdul Jabbar Sabit, Interior Ministry's legal advisor,
told Pajhwok Afghan News the ministry banned the
restaurants as these were used as prostitution dens.
23-8-2005
Improving life of sex workers in India The Tamilnadu AIDS Initiative (TAI) will
soon launch a series of training programmes for sex
workers in the State in an effort to supplement their
income and better their living.
22-8-2005
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
Maumbai dance bar owners to petition High Court against ban Dance bar owners
in Maharashtra have decided to approach the Bombay High
Court on Tuesday to challenge the Government's decision
to shut such bars across the state on the grounds that
they promote prostitution.
15-8-2005
Australian sex traffickers target Korean women Traffickers are turning to South Korean
women after a crackdown by Australian police on the
importation of "sex slaves" from Thailand, Australia's
national broadcaster has charged.
15-8-2005
Japan: Sex career no bed of roses Kim Myongan sits back in his chair,
waiting for you to spill your darkest secrets. You are
in a large room in his penthouse in Tokyo's Kichijoji
area. 9-8-2005
Qatar: 'Prostitution' case shelved A court hearing the story of a married
woman and her mother, both of whom were allegedly
involved in prostitution, shelved the case, a daily
Arabic newspaper reported.
9-8-2005
Korea: Openly revealing a secret life When she was young, Kim Yeon-ja bellowed
like a man so no one would look down on her. She also
dressed like a man to get a "masculine" job more easily
in the days when women still carried sheathed knives ―
not for protection, but to kill themselves if someone
attempted to steal their virginity.
1-8-2005
Mumbai bar girls heading for Jaipur? Jaipur may soon turn out to be the refuge
of Mumbai's bar girls who were rendered jobless after a
ban on their trade by the Maharashtra government in
March.
1-8-2005
Commentary
Dispelling ignorance and disinformation on Thailand's sex industry Whenever one
tries to understand any of the tragedies and injustices
that beset this tired old world, one encounters many
barriers. High on the list of these are ignorance and
its first cousin, deliberate disinformation.
30-7-2005
Commentary
The tourists who fuel a Thai tragedy Australia should be helping to clean up
the devastating sex trade it is driving, says Amanda
Fairweather. 29-7-2005
Vietnamese bride forced into prostitution by Malaysian husband When
Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Hong Que married a Malaysian, she
was looking forward to a happy life; but her dreams were
dashed when she was forced by her husband to work as a
guest relations officer at a karaoke lounge in Petaling
Jaya. 23-7-2005
Japan gets ticketed for trafficking in Thai teens Japan has
finally started cracking down on the trafficking of
foreign sex slaves, but those in the know say the recent
first arrests for selling foreign girls into
prostitution in this country are only the tip of the
iceberg. 23-7-2005
North Korean refugees frequent victims of human trafficking Human
trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that thrives
on coercion, fear and brutal exploitation, says
Ambassador John Miller, the director of the State
Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in
Persons. 23-7-2005
Israel: Public backs legal prostitution Almost two-thirds of the public believe
that prostitution should be legalized, according to a
survey presented yesterday in a joint meeting of the
Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of
Women and and the subcommittee on trafficking in women.
20-7-2005
Canada overrun with South Korean women in prostitution exodus New report
says British Columbia is a major hub for Korean sex
trade workers as websites in Seoul urge women to go
overseas and make up to $28,000 CDN a month in
massage parlors and bars.
13-7-2005
Japanese college-girl pros get happy campers pitching tents - in their shorts Masami
Nemoto, 21, is a college junior who enjoys two things:
nature and sex. Well, actually there's a third things
she also likes: money. So on weekdays when recreational
campsites are normally unsupervised by park rangers and
private guards, Masami and a girlfriend pitch their
tent, unfold a couple of chairs and then start make
their male companions happy campers indeed.
6-7-2005
US officials ask if sex trade forced on South Koreans More than 100
South Korean women who were taken into custody during a
federal crackdown on alleged prostitution and human
trafficking in San Francisco and Los Angeles are being
interviewed to determine whether they were forced into
the sex trade and how they were treated.
4-7-2005
US
busts tell sorry tale of Korean prostitutes abroad The number of
Korean women looking for work as prostitutes abroad or
being trafficked for the purpose is on the increase.
Some 50 members of two gangs busted in California on
Friday on charges of selling hundreds of Korean women to
places of prostitution are just the tip of the iceberg.
4-7-2005
Exploring
Singapore's Invisible Trade Welcome to the very real, largely hidden,
and often surreal world of high-class sex for sale in
Singapore, where the sexual desires of this tiny island
run the gamut from simple missionary zeal to the
cracking of the whip.
1-7-2005
COMMENTARY
Is prostitution not a job? Prostitution has been around for, let's
just say a very long time. Belle Watling was the owner
of the whorehouse in Atlanta where Rhett Butler, from
"Gone with the Wind,'' was a frequent guest. Bianca from
Shakespeare's "Othello'' was a common whore who fell for
the lady's man Cassio. Julia Roberts rose to immediate
stardom playing the charismatic prostitute who won
Richard Gere's heart in "Pretty Woman."
30-6-2005
Just between us girls, the secret slang of Japan's soapland industry To enlighten
readers of Shukan Jitsuwa (6/30) to the latest
on-the-job slang term, Nami, 23 met the magazine's
reporter at an Ikebukuro coffee shop, where she divulged
that "tokkan koji" meant climbing atop the customer and
moving her hips in a frantically rapid motion to make
customer ejaculate more quickly.
28-6-2005
India's dancing girls win ban delay Tens of thousands of dancing girls in
India's financial and film capital of Bombay have won a
delay against a government decision to close them down.
State governor S.M. Krishna, has refused to approve the
move for now, saying in a statement on Friday he saw "no
immediate reason" to do so.
27-6-2005
Childhood lost in Kolkata's red-light district Every time her
mother brings a man home, little Pinky picks up her
infant sister and goes out to play in the grimy lanes of
Kolkata's rundown red light district. That is, if it is
daytime. 27-6-2005
One-way traffic In poorly written
English, signboards outside Lockhart Road hostess bars
welcome crewmen off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz -
just arrived in port to offload a few thousand sailors
and marines. The streets are full of frisky young men
looking hip and civilian, aiming more for Snoop Doggie
Dogg than spit-and-polish warrior. They are thirsty for
beer and sexual adventure.
21-6-2005
Wife snatched by prostitution gang Bahrain Police
rescued a wife who was snatched off the street by a gang
that threatened to force her into prostitution unless
her husband paid a BD300 ransom (about $790 USD). The
Bangladeshi couple were walking near the Middle East
Hotel in Manama at around 8pm on Friday when she was
dragged into a car.
21-6-2005
India: It may not be the end of road for dance bar girls Maharashtra's
contentious move to shut dance bars across the state
received a setback, with the Governor SM Krishna
returning an ordinance in the absence of a plan to
rehabilitate girls employed in these establishments.
16-6-2005
Japan revises Penal Code, immigration law to combat human trafficking Japan's
parliament on Thursday approved legislation to revise
the Penal Code and immigration law to punish those
involved in human trafficking, while granting victims
special residency status to protect them even if they
have overstayed their
visas. 16-6-2005
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.
16-6-2005
Myanmar steps up fight against human trafficking Myanmar
is stepping up its fight against human trafficking by
finalizing the draft of a new law on prevention against
human trafficking, Thursday's state-run newspaper New
Light of Myanmar reported.
16-6-2005
Child prostitution in Cebu alarming - ILO There are more child
prostitutes in Cebu City than in the cities of Mandaue
and Lapu-Lapu, last year's study of the International
Labor Organization-International Program for the
Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPECL) revealed.
16-6-2005
