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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
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Malaysians taking to taxis for love
They want some privacy, but are
afraid to be seen checking into hotels. So some
Malaysian couples have taken their hanky-panky elsewhere
- to the backseats of taxis. 31-12-2006
Bahrain denies Thai investigators are in Manama to probe prostitution ring
Bahraini officials yesterday denied
recent media reports that a police unit from Thailand
was conducting investigations in Manama into an alleged
prostitution ring involving Thai women. 31-12-2006
'Internet pushing real time porn'
In the lengthening vocabulary that
describes child abuse, 'streaming' now defines the
formidable challenge faced by child rights activists
campaigning to stop children from being trapped into the
sex trade over the Internet. 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
Indonesia's Muslims: Playboy "global icon of pornography"
The editor-in-chief of Playboy
Indonesia trial contnued this week as he faces charges
of publishing indecent material. 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
Vietnam holds conference on combating sex-selection abortions
Two months after the Vietnamese
government issued new fines hoping to prevent
sex-selection abortions, the nation held a joint
conference with a United Nations committee to discuss
the problem. The United Nations Population Fund,
criticized for supporting China's forced abortion
policy, will help the Asian nation. 16-12-2006
Video sex scandal claims Indonesian MP
A senior Indonesian MP has resigned
from Parliament after a mobile phone clip of him
cavorting naked in a hotel room with a popular singer
was passed from phone to phone around the country and
ended up on the internet. 9-12-2006
Cambodian sex worker stabs client after he refused to wear condom
A Cambodian man has been stabbed by
a sex worker in a brawl, after he refused her request to
wear a condom, police said Friday. 9-12-2006
Kelantan moves to ban sexy outfits
Sexy outfits have been banned in a
Malaysian state ruled by a conservative Islamic party,
which has introduced fines for women working in shops
and restaurants who dress "indecently." 9-12-2006
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
Swingers swap sex partners in prudish Singapore
Every two months,
dozens of couples meet in a pub in Singapore, have
drinks, mingle, and then decide whether they want to
sleep with one another. 26-11-2006
Teacher faces 20 years' jail for child sex in Indonesia
Indonesian
prosecutors have graphically outlined child-sex abuse
charges that could lead to the Australian teacher Peter
Smith being jailed for 20 years. 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
Update: The Mongolian model murder in Malaysia
Setting the stage
for a lurid courtroom drama that is sure to grip a
country that officially sees itself as upright and
puritanical, one of Malaysia's most prominent political
analysts has been charged with the gruesome slaying of a
Mongolian "free lance" fashion model who claimed that he
was her lover and the father of her infant child. 18-11-2006
Desperate for a date, Singapore courts matchmakers
Singapore is playing
matchmaker again. Desperate to boost its fertility rate,
the government of the city-state says it will fund new
services and activities that encourage dating. 18-11-2006
Singaporean child-sex tourists in law's crosshairs
Singaporean who go
overseas to have sex with children could soon face the
music at home after their jaunt. 12-11-2006
Singapore to legalise oral, anal sex for heterosexuals
Oral and anal sex in
private between consenting heterosexual adults would be
legalised under Singapore's first major penal code
amendments in 22 years, the government said on
Wednesday. 8-11-2006
On a mission to help Filipino children
Pia was very excited
as the woman took her to a luxury hotel which dazzled
her young eyes. She was shown to a room, where a man was
waiting. Though she wanted to run away, her body did not
move. 8-11-2006
Malaysian newspaper gets slapped for sex story
Malaysian government
leaders have rebuked a local newspaper for publishing a
frank expose of sexual attitudes among the country's
youth. 8-11-2006
Thailand: Teenagers warned to avoid risks from sexual relationship during Loy
Krathong festival
The Provincial
Offcial of the Ministry of Social Development and Human
Security of Kamphang Phet warns adolescents of the risks
from sexual relationship during Loy Krathong Festival.
5-11-2006
US cop on Cambodia child sex charge kills self
A San Francisco
policeman charged last week with sexually assaulting a
14-year-old girl in Cambodia committed suicide in his
jail cell on Tuesday, police said. 5-11-2006
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
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
Cambodia: Gimme shelter
Cambodia has apparently granted
Khmer citizenship to a wealthy American accused of being
one of the world's most notorious child abusers, a
former San Francisco Bay Area stockbroker currently in a
Mexican prison on charges of child sexual abuse, raising
US Justice Department fears that the man will flee to
Phnom Penh, according to government documents. 15-10-2006
Indonesian gays fight back
Indonesia's fledgling LGBT group,
Arus Pelangi (Rainbow Flag), last Monday launched a
national campaign against a welter of ultra-homophobic
regional statutes based on Muslim Sharia law. 15-10-2006
Vietnam government issues new fines over sex-selection abortions
The Vietnamese government has
issued new fines hoping to prevent sex-selection
abortions from continuing to prey on baby girls in the
Asian nation. The country has the same problem as other
nations such as China, North Korea and India, where boys
are preferred and girls fall victim to abortions and
infanticides. 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
Thailand: Aussie to be deported on child porn charges
Thai authorities
will deport a former West Australian policeman accused
of posting a haul of discs containing child pornography
to Australia. 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
Filipino woman in rape case wants lawyers changed
A Filipino woman who
accuses four US Marines of raping her last year wants
the Philippine justice department to replace her public
prosecutors, saying she has lost confidence in them. 18-9-2006
Over 47 pct of Cambodian hookers suffer from sexual diseases
Some 47.1 percent of Cambodia's
prostitutes were contaminated with sexual diseases
mainly because they only asked 80 percent of their
clients to wear condoms while rarely adopting any
protective measures when they had sex with lovers or
husbands. 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
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
Vietnam police smash international prostitution ring
Ho Chi Minh City
police busted Saturday an international prostitution
ring led by Vietnamese women which trafficked young
women to work in brothels in Macau. 4-9-2006
Philippines: Male prostitution for reel
For some reason, Pinoy filmmakers
have stopped doing movies about bar girls and female
prostitution. Not that there are no more girlie bars and
prostitution dens in the Philippine archipelago. It's
just that our filmmakers seem bent on making us pay
attention on male prostitution instead. 31-8-2006
Vietnam: Prostitution ring for foreigners found
Hanoi police have
raided a big prostitution network serving foreigners,
arresting 31 people, including five foreigners. 26-8-2006
Malaysia: Sex in the university
A lecturer from MARA Polytechnic
University conducted a study on the sexual habits of
18-25 year old students from 4 national and private
universities. The results showed that 50% of Malaysian
university students were sexually active. 26-8-2006
Germans probe Cambodia child sex charges
At least one German Federal police
officer will travel to Cambodia next week after two
German nationals were charged with child sex offences,
an embassy official said Friday. 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
Pedophiles in Asia evade authorities
Activists say Asian
governments are starting to address the problem,
introducing tough laws and moving to convict offenders
in several countries. 21-8-2006
Thailand 'a world porn leader'
The top official in the Ministry of
Information and Communications Technology claimed today
that Thailand is among the top 5 nations of the entire
world in pornographic websites. 16-8-2006
The things we do for love and money
As a girl living in Thailand, I
often find myself amazed at what people will do for
money. A stroll down the upmarket and classy Soi Bangla
(note the sarcasm) is a prime example of this. 16-8-2006
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
Anti-porn fight tests Muslim tolerance in Indonesia
A battle brewing
over a draft anti-smut law has laid bare deep divisions
within Indonesia and, say critics, threatens its
traditionally tolerant approach to Islam. 1-8-2006
Birth control, a thorny problem for Philippines
Nick couldn't
believe so many of his friends had become accidental
fathers when he returned to the Philippines after five
years overseas. 1-8-2006
Vietnamese sex education on the rise, soon on the Internet
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
is preparing to launch the first-ever sex education
website for its citizens, according to English-language
news agency Viet Nam News. Due to deep-seated cultural
taboos on talking about sex and a hard-line communist
government, anything remotely sexual in nature has been
banned from Vietnamese media and Internet use-until now.
1-8-2006
Groups step up signature campaign for 'sex education' in the Philippines
Various progressive organizations
vowed to support the initiative of youth groups to
gather signatures in order to pressure the Department of
Education (DepEd) to resume teaching sex education in
public high schools. 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
Premarital sex among RP youths on the rise: study
The gap between
adolescent Filipino females and their male counterparts
practicing premarital sex is becoming narrow, a study
conducted by the University of the
Philippines-Population Institute showed. 17-7-2006
Australian sex workers complain of Asian competition
Australian sex
workers are feeling the pinch of Asian competition, the
national news agency reported. 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
Philippines rape: Doctor says injuries consistent with sexual assualt
A Filipino doctor testifying at a
rape trial involving four United States Marines said
yesterday that the complainant suffered injuries
consistent with a sexual assault. 5-7-2006
Thai website against human trafficking
Thailand will soon
launch an anti-human-trafficking website, said to be the
first of its kind, providing global resource
information. 28-6-2006
'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
Brothel owner's jailing for sex slavery welcomed
An advocacy group
for Thai sex workers has welcomed an Australian court
decision to jail a brothel owner for sex slavery. 11-6-2006
Philippines: Investigators to testify GI, victim had consensual sex
Lawyers defending the American
Marines charged in the Subic rape case yesterday
continued pounding on "Nicole's" credibility, this time
citing portions of a US Navy fact-finding report that
they claimed was "favorable" to the four accused. 6-6-2006
American pleads not guilty to sex travel
A Los Angeles man deported from
Thailand after serving a year in prison for molesting
teenage boys pleaded not guilty Monday to traveling to
that Southeast Asian nation to engage in illicit sexual
activity. 6-6-2006
OPINION
Philippines: Pornography everywhere
Warnings on the
dangers of porn on the Internet have been issued for
sometime now. That the danger is real was shown in that
incident in Minglanilla last Sunday. The police chanced
upon a woman paying off children to pose nude in front
of a webcam - this inside her bedroom. That shows how
widespread this kind of pornography has become. 6-6-2006
Indonesian fears over porn law
The introduction of a bill which
would heavily restrict pornography in Indonesia has been
attacked by women's rights campaigners in the country,
who fear it is the first step towards the implementation
of Islamic Sharia law. 27-5-2006
Cambodian PM bans 3G phones in anti-porn drive
Cambodian Prime
Minister Hun Sen has banned 3G mobile phones after a
complaint from his wife and her friends about receiving
pornography on them. 27-5-2006
Gay travel guide tries Southeast Asia edition
The editor of a new
gay and lesbian travel guide to Indonesia, Malaysia and
Singapore says he hopes the book will foster more
acceptance of homosexuality - which is outlawed in all
three conservative Southeast Asian nations. 27-5-2006
Porn blogging in the Phillipines
It was bound to happen. In any
system that accepts user contributions, be it photos,
text or video clips, you are bound to get inappropriate
content. Some people just love to post nude images even
in general-audience websites. 27-5-2006
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
Most HIV-positive Cambodians lack access to treatment
Kong Kim Sy
tearfully recounted being shunned at every step -- but
what was especially painful for her is the memory of
being thrown out of religious ceremonies in her home
village. 27-5-2006
Vietnam: Prostitution study scrapes tip of iceberg
The statistics were
revealed from a survey of prostitution within the city,
which was conducted by local authorities in late 2005.
It is considered the largest and deepest penetrating
study to date. 19-5-2006
Thailand extradites alleged American pedophile
An American teacher,
accused of sex crimes against children, battled with
Thai police in Bangkok on Thursday, as they tried to
take him to the airport for an extradition flight. 19-5-2006
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
Woman takes Indonesian mayor to court over prostitution bylaw
Lilies
Lindawati is keeping to a pledge to settle the score
with those who publicly humiliated her by branding her a
prostitute. 19-5-2006
Indonesia: Supporters of anti-pornography bill demonstrate in Indonesian
capital
Supporters demand immediate
adoption of law that would ban poetry, drawing, writing,
photos or film 'which expose the movement of certain
body parts which are sensual'. 7-5-2006
Glitter's appeal this month
Disgraced British "glam rocker"
Gary Glitter's appeal against a three-year jail sentence
for molesting children in Vietnam will be heard by a
court this month, a Vietnamese newspaper reported
this week. 7-5-2006
Man nabbed by Cambodian and US cops for engaging in sex with minors
Accompanied by agents from US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a 49-year-old Bay
Area man returned from Cambodia to San Francisco today
where he faces charges that he engaged in illicit sexual
conduct with underage girls in that Southeast Asian
nation. 7-5-2006
Actresses' book 'Sexual Connotation' riles Thai conservatives
Former senator Rabiabrat Pongpanich
hit out hard at Juraluck "Ying" Kittiyarat for the
sexual content and explicit photographs of the actress
and her farang boyfriend in her book "Sexual
Connotation". My first reaction was: "Not again? Not
another prudish reaction based on her narrow idea of
Thainess?" 1-5-2006
Art parade planned to oppose porn bill
Artists, public figures, and
members of ethnic groups from throughout the country are
planning to march through Central Jakarta on Saturday to
show their cultural opposition to the pornography bill.
23-4-2006
Jakarta police want next Playboy issue put off
Jakarta
police on Thursday, April 13, said authorities should
interfere to put off the second issue of the country's
local edition of Playboy magazine if publishers refuse
to voluntarily do so. 20-4-2006
Asian values sinfully Americanized?
I am not at all a prude (more about
that later). And I am certainly no saint but I am a
journalist (which some might consider a sin in itself)
and I am getting a little worried about Asia's rate of
moral development. 20-4-2006
OPINION
Is fundamentalism a threat to women's rights?
Recent
reports in South Asian and international media have been
discussing the issue of rising levels of Islamic
fundamentalism and political instability in Bangladesh
in the context of global terrorism and political Islam.
20-4-2006
Vietnam: Girls flock for nude paintings
Some women
in cities are being "drawn" to a new phenomenon: having
their own nudes painted. 5-4-2006
Power struggle being waged over public morality
The
controversy over the pornography bill has revealed that
various groups in society are involved in a struggle for
domination over public morality. Sexuality, the human
body and moral values are being negotiated, and thus can
be better understood, within the context of power
relations. 5-4-2006
Taiwanese arrested for human trafficking in Vietnam
Police in
southern Vietnam say they have arrested a Taiwanese man
accused of trafficking women to Malaysia. 5-4-2006
No sex please, we are God-fearing Indonesians
A looming
morality crackdown in Indonesia may spare Bali so
bikini-clad tourists are not arrested on the beach.
A special committee in Indonesia's
Parliament is reviewing proposed laws to ban
pornography, erotic dancing and even adults kissing in
public across the mainly Muslim nation. 29-3-2006
Indonesian fashion industry rejects pornography bill
A group of
businesspeople representing textile and fashion
industries association in Indonesia made a public
statement Thursday opposing the pornography bill now
being deliberated in the parliament. 29-3-2006
Philippines: Pornography leads to addiction to sex, perversion
Citing the
need for parents and the government to guard children on
the dangers of pornography, Senate Minority Leader
Aquilino Pimentel Jr. called on the youth to resist the
evil attraction of pornography. 29-3-2006
Vietnamese hunt Australian for alleged child sexual abuse
Police are
hunting for an Australian man suspected of sexually
abusing several Vietnamese children, police and
state-controlled media reported this week. 29-3-2006
Porn bill meets opposition in Bali
Hundreds of people on Indonesia's
resort island of Bali Friday expressed their opposition
to the pornography bill being deliberated in the House
of Representativesin Jakarta. 25-3-2006
Porn bill debate head accused of deceiving public
Balkan
Kaplale, the head of the deliberation of the
controversial pornography bill, has been accused of
misleading the public. 25-3-2006
Vietnam: Photos of nude models uploaded illegally onto Internet
Vietnamese public opinion is angry
with the phenomenon of students at Hanoi Fine Art
University photographing and uploading photos of their
nude models onto the Internet. 25-3-2006
Glitter gets 3 years in Vietnam jail for child sex
A
Vietnamese court sentenced British "glam rocker" Gary
Glitter to three years in jail on Friday for molesting
two 11-year-old girls, although if he wins early parole
he could be free by Christmas. 25-3-2006
Glitter faces British jail too
Depraved rock star Gary Glitter
will have no hiding place when he is freed from jail in
Vietnam. 25-3-2006
'Sex guru' launches sex survey on wheels in Singapore
Singapore's self-styled sex guru
said Tuesday he was deploying a team of women - riding
scooters in short dresses and boots - to talk to the
city-state's residents about their sexual concerns in
his latest bid to understand what goes on in the
Singaporean bedroom. 19-2-2006
Asian countries call for universal access to AIDS prevention
More than
200 delegates from over 20 countries in the Asia Pacific
region are met last week in Thailand's resort city
of Pattaya to discuss how to ensure universal access to
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. 19-2-2006
Singapore allows film fans to see Brokeback Mountain
Promotional material for Brokeback
Mountain in Singapore will carry a consumer advisory
saying "mature theme, sexual scenes". Cinemagoers in
Singapore will be allowed to watch gay cowboy romance
Brokeback Mountain without censorship from Friday. 19-2-2006
Indonesia: Condemning pornography easier than dealing with corruption
The House of Representatives might
want to consider this saying as a House special
committee deliberates the controversial pornography
bill. 19-2-2006
Singapore: Marriage made in hell
The sickly and lonely bachelor
spends his days cooped up in a two-room HDB flat. So
when a pretty student from China asked him to marry her,
the prospect seemed too tantalising to refuse. 9-2-2006
Philippines HIV cases double over three years
An AIDS
crisis threatens the Philippines as the number of people
who are HIV carriers has doubled in just over three
years, the health department warned. 9-2-2006
War on web porn heats up in Thailand
The Information and
Communication Technology Ministry (ICT) is taking
another crack at banishing pornography from the country,
this time by using hundreds of cyber watchers and
closed-circuit television (CCTV) in post offices.
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
Indonesian Muslims furious over Playboy
Indonesian Muslims have reacted in
fury over the planned debut of a local edition of
raunchy magazine Playboy, fueling growing debate on
pornography in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
25-1-2006
Anime: Anything but sex in Malaysia
Will the crusades against pop
culture ever cease? First, an indie music gig was raided
because it was supposedly a black metal gathering
sacrificing goats to Satan. Then, anime was generalised
as "animation with sex". 25-1-2006
Malaysia: Nude squats must stop
Subjecting the woman detainee in
the video clip to nude ear squats is improper, haram and
a violation of human rights. The independent commission
looking into the nude squat incident said the practice
of police ordering detainees to perform such acts must
stop immediately. 25-1-2006
Malaysia: Cop who filmed nude squats video identified
Government identifies and suspends
the policeman responsible for filming nude female
prisoner. 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
Editors take rap for nude-squat report but doubts linger
The top two editors of China Press
have decided to take the blame for its November 23
(evening edition) nude-squat report which wrongly
identified the victim as a Chinese national. 9-1-2006
'The Rice Queen Diaries'
A definition from the book: "The term 'Rice Queen' is a
product of contemporary western gay vernacular. It refers to a man, usually
Caucasian, who is sexually attracted to men of Far East Asian origins.. ..It's
most often a pejorative label that denotes ethnic fetishism and a preference
for relationships based on inequality."
22-12-2005
Glitter paid underage girls to withdraw sexual abuse charges
It has emerged that former rock
star Gary Glitter paid thousands of dollars to the
underage girls to buy their silence concerning sexual
abuse charges against him. Glitter's lawyer confirmed
that his client had paid $2,000 each to the families of
the minor Vietnamese girls so that they would withdraw
the case against him. 2-1-2006
Philippines charge 4 US marines with rape
Philippine
prosecutors on Tuesday charged four US Marines with rape
in what is seen as a test case for a bilateral accord
allowing American troops to train here. 2-1-2006
Leers and loathing in Vegas: Why am I mistaken as an Asian sex import?
Lost in the crowd on the Strip
among the replicas of world monuments, I never imagined
I would also be on display - for my resemblance to an
Asian import for prostitution. 29-12-2005
So much need, so little help for the deathly ill in Burma
A growing humanitarian emergency
has sparked fears that thousands could die of disease
and malnutrition in Burma, whose repressive military
regime has drawn international condemnation and
punishing US trade sanctions. 29-12-2005
Malaysia: Trial for nude dancing
Four women were charged in the
magistrate's court today with dancing in the
nude. 29-12-2005
Malaysia: Lifting the veil on sex
Parents shy away from talking about
it. Teachers blush at the mention of the three-letter
word. But possibly as early as next year, five million
schoolchildren will be encouraged to discuss sexual
fantasies, abstaining from pre-marital sex, paedophilia
and the sanctity of marriage. 22-12-2005
Malaysian PM: Don't question nude squat inquiry
Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Sunday said no one should
question the inquiry conducted by an independent
commission on the case of a naked woman doing ear squats
while in police custody. 22-12-2005
Most Singapore men satisfied with their sex life
84 percent of
Singapore men are generally satisfied with their sex
life, rating it a healthy 7.5 out of 10 on
average. 22-12-2005
Nude statue controversy in Davao City
Controversy has been raging in
Davao City with councilors in uproar over the erection
(and we used that word advisedly) of a large nude statue
replicating Michelangelo's nude statue David on a
popular beachfront location. 16-12-2005
Asian gays and lesbians celebrate 10 years of online "Utopia"
Websites seem to have a shorter
shelf life than a ripe banana, but one pioneering
Internet portal is celebrating a decade of service
providing a free, safe and popular online community for
millions of homosexuals in Asia. 16-12-2005
Singapore informs spouses of HIV-positive partners
Singapore's health
ministry has started informing spouses of HIV-positive
patients directly about their partners' disease in order
to curb the spread of HIV, the ministry said. 12-12-2005
Singapore jails five HIV blood donors for lying
A Singapore court
sentenced five HIV-positive blood donors to prison for
lying about their sexual history, a court official said
on Thursday. 12-12-2005
Safer sex stressed at Hanoi conference
A two-day conference
in Hanoi to discuss a reproductive health program for
youths called for changing sexual behavior of Vietnamese
youths, most of whom lacked knowledge of safe
sex. 6-12-2005
Singapore Crazy Horse says topless show not sleazy
The Singapore Crazy
Horse, which will bring the famous French topless dance
act to the city-state, is not just another nude show,
but a classy act, its owner said. 6-12-2005
Philippines: Soldiers' wives turn to prostitution
Army privates and
corporals could not sustain their families on wages of
less than 300 kina ($A140) a fortnight, prompting wives
to engage in commercial sex, Lieutenant-Colonel William
Bartley told the committee in Lae this week. 4-12-2005
Thailand: Police target porn comics
Translators of Japanese comics with
pornographic content have been urged to tip off police
to help track down the gangs which produce
them. 4-12-2005
Thai AIDS "success story" scares Asia
Thailand, repeatedly cited by
international agencies as a success story in the fight
against HIV/AIDS, is offering a new lesson these
days. 4-12-2005
Glitter may face child rape charge
Rocker Gary Glitter, charged in
Vietnam last week with child molestation, is now under
investigation for raping children, Vietnamese police
said on Wednesday. 2-12-2005
Philippines: Church works against reproductive health
When Philippine
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo told the UN General
Assembly recently to "respect the deep Catholicism of
the Filipino people" and said that natural family
planning is more effective than artificial means like
condoms, Filipino activists reacted with disbelief,
others with anger. 1-12-2005
Battered women, no longer alone in Thailand
The frequent
telephone calls that a women's rights group in Bangkok
receives are one of the many indicators of a dark side
of this country known for its smiling, hospitable
people. 1-12-2005
Thailand to block online porn, again
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
Friday vowed to block all access to website pornography
by year-end, although details on how the government will
do so remain
fuzzy. 29-11-2005
Action on Cambodia sex tourists
British police are to work with the
authorities in Cambodia to track down sex tourists who
travel from the UK to abuse children. British officers
will also advise their Cambodian counterparts on how to
investigate and prosecute
offenders. 24-11-2005
Malaysian transsexual says she won't challenge government to recognize her
marriage
A
Malaysian transsexual woman said Tuesday she won't fight
a decision by the government to declare her marriage to
a man as illegal, because she wants "no trouble" over
what is believed to be the first such union in this
mostly Muslim
country. 23-11-2005
Singapore sex exhibition under close police watch
Singapore opened its first sex exhibition
on Friday with police saying they will also attend to
make sure organisers and exhibitors comply with the
city-state's strict
laws. 23-11-2005
Singapore: Pay up or appear nude online
Digital mementoes become dangerous
objects in the hands of scorned lovers in
Singapore. 23-11-2005
'Love hotel' tag hard to shake off in Singapore
Their secretive nature means that very
little is known about the hotel's owners, the Choos.
Instead, rumours about the mysterious owners of Hotel 81
are whispered in pubs, and swopped over drinks in
coffeeshops. 23-11-2005
Glitter may face firing squad over child-sex allegations in Vietnam
The disgraced rock
star Gary Glitter could face death by firing squad after
he was accused of having sex with a girl aged 12 in
Vietnam. 23-11-2005
Lolita predators on the rise in Singapore
More men are getting caught having sex
with girls between 14 and below 16. Why are girls such
easy prey? One 13-year-old girl had sex with a group of
four men, just because they had challenged her to do
it. 9-11-2005
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 and relationships among Singapore's youth
Get 'attached' in less than a week. And
have sex in less than a month. That is what some young,
reckless Singaporeans are doing, said Ms Theresa Soon, a
senior executive at the Department of STD Control (DSC)
Clinic. 25-10-2005
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
Philippines: Sex scandal actors face up to deed
The two persons involved in the now
infamous "Xavier Sex Scandal" video confronted each
other in front of the mayor's office Tuesday for
probably the first time since news of the video broke
out. 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
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
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
Thai minister orders investigation of porn broacasts
The Minister
attached to the Prime Minister's Office has ordered the
Public Relations Department to investigate the problem
of pornography having been televised through Channel 11.
Meanwhile, state officials are suspected of having been
involved in this matter.
5-10-2005
Thailand rolls out national AIDS drug plan
Thailand rolled out a national plan on
Saturday to give life-saving drugs to people living with
HIV-AIDS, one of the few Asian nations to offer
universal treatment in a region where the virus
threatens to run rampant.
5-10-2005
AIDS believed on rise again in Thailand
Thailand was once considered a model in
the fight against AIDS, but the man behind that success
says the country of 63 million has returned to the days
of ignorance and that the disease is making a deadly
comeback. 4-10-2005
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
Cyber cafes caught with porn to be shut down in Malaysia
Cyber centres and
cyber cafes found to be allowing
pornographic content and running gambling activities
will be closed, said Housing and Local Government
Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting.
29-9-2005
Homosexual men speak with peers about dangers of AIDS
As darkness falls, Nguyen Hoang Minh, 35,
goes downtown to meet his friends to talk about the
prevention of AIDS. 28-9-2005
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
Sentences for trafficking in Cambodia
A Cambodian court has convicted two
Vietnamese of trafficking two women to Malaysia.
24-9-2005
Thais tough on man over sex charges
A former West Australian police officer
facing child sex charges in Thailand has been placed
under strict bail conditions ahead of his next court
appearance expected in October.
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
Sex aids for happier marriages in Malaysia
The Malaysian state of Kelantan may be
orthodox in many ways - but not in matter of sex it
seems, official studies have shown. Sex-aids and
stimulants are more widely used in this Malay state than
any other in the country.
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
Malaysia: 'Don't ridicule women'
Charges of sexual harassment at work must
be handled professionally and women must not end up
being ridiculed, Malaysia's Right's Commission has
warned. 13-9-2005
Thailand's transgendered, MSM require culturally appropriate HIV targeted help
Men who have
sex with men (MSM) in Thailand, who often do so with
transgendered men known as Katoey, do not perceive
themselves to be engaging in sex between men, and are
consequently requiring culturally appropriate targeted
prevention. 13-9-2005
Asian tourists help revive Pattaya, Thailand's 'jaded old lady'
Pattaya beach resort,
the "jaded old lady" of Thailand's tourism industry, is
witnessing a revival of sorts, demonstrating that a good
location, sun, sand and a spicy night scene are still a
selling combo. 9-9-2005
Sex show on Singapore TV
Singapore's first television show
dedicated to sexual matters will be aired by national
broadcaster MediaCorp this month, the network announced
on Tuesday. 9-9-2005
More Vietnamese get HIV from prostitutes
Vietnam is estimated to have some 58,000
HIV carriers, who get the virus after having sex with
infected prostitutes, by the end of this year, up from
25,000 in late 2000. 9-9-2005
"No hugging, we're Muslims:" Reality shows with a twist in Malaysia
Reality TV has
taken Malaysia by storm, but instead of eating bugs or
cavorting nude in jacuzzis, contestants in the mostly
Muslim country observe a "hands-off" policy and face
spot checks on the direction of Mecca.
7-9-2005
Survey finds Vietnamese youth oppose homosexuality
Vietnam's first national survey on youth
was released Friday in Hanoi. Done in cooperation with
the World Health Organization and UNICEF, the survey of
7,584 people ages 14-25 asked questions about health,
sexuality, education, and family lives.
6-9-2005
Malaysia: Prostitute, accomplice jailed for robbing client
A prostitute who had
sex with a Japanese national as her accomplice robbed
him was sentenced to nine months jail today.
6-9-2005
Thai child sex charges are payback, says accused Australian
Christopher
Ronald White is behind bars in Chiang Mai Central
Prison, accused of serious child sex offences. To hear
him talk, the former West Australian policeman, 46,
tried to help a poor girl and her family but he was set
up, and his actions misconstrued. Behind the brave face
is a bitter man. 4-9-2005
They've spied on men, and women too
When this couple travels, they look for
sex. But it's work, not pleasure. They're out to catch
perverts who have sex with kids.
4-9-2005
University lecturer on the run
Singaporean polytechnic lecturer Darwis
Rianto Lim was caught by Thai officers in April after
they found him with a 17-year-old boy in a Bangkok hotel
room. 4-9-2005
Thai police to test DNA of Perth man in child sex case
A Perth man being held
in prison in northern Thailand has been tested to see if
he fathered a child with a 16-year-old girl.
3-9-2005
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