Nations tackle human trafficking crisis
Senior officials from China and five Southeast Asian nations gathered in the Thai capital Wednesday to thrash out a new framework for fighting human trafficking in the region. 7-30-2004

'Obscene' Tamil film angers women
Women activists in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu have demanded a ban on a film, New, which they say contains obscene sex scenes. The film is doing big business since its release last week. 7-30-2004

Studies attempt to understand MSM behavior
Several studies presented at the World AIDS Conference documented gay life in India, China and other parts of the globe, and in many cases showed that gay men are missing out on HIV-prevention messages. 7-30-2004

Tajik journalists trained on reporting human trafficking
Journalists in Tajikistan discussed ways the media can combat human trafficking at a recent workshop in the southern city of Kulyab. 7-30-2004

Company recruiting 'young and passionate' porn stars booted from job fair
Hong Kong's high unemployment has many young residents scrounging for work, but job fair officials have drawn the line at an advertisement aimed at recruiting "passionate" porn stars. 7-29-2004

Pakistan hakims take to porn to promote medicines
Some homeopaths and hakims in Pakistan have reportedly taken to advertising their range of services and medicines in a vulgar and obscene manner, prompting the medical council controlling their activities to impose strictures on them. 7-29-2004

Maid offered door-to-door sex service
A runaway maid was caught going door-to-door selling sex, by police keeping watch for prostitutes. Police also nabbed a 48-year-old Indian client was also arrested and found to be in Bahrain illegally who was one of her customers. 7-29-2004

Police shut Ukraine model agency in porn crackdown
Ukrainian police shut a modeling agency which photographed underage girls and sold images over the Internet in North America as part of their biggest crackdown on child pornography, officials said on Wednesday. 7-29-2004

Israeli technology can check fetus and ID sex by fourth week
Israeli biotech company Monaliza Medical has developed technology to identify and check embryo cells at a very early stage of pregnancy. This checks the state of the fetus and identifies its sex by the fourth week. 7-29-2004

Doctor surrenders in sexual harassment case
Medical circles in Kolkata have been plunged into a row over a sexual harassment case. J. Mazumdar, superintendent of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, surrendered at the Alipore Court on Monday after he was charged with 'outrage of modesty' and 'criminal intimidation'. 7-29-2004

Iraqi women and torture, Part One
By now, everyone has heard of the ghost detainees of Abu Ghraib -- the prisoners who were never processed into the system and were kept out of sight of the Red Cross so that they could be whisked from prison to prison unaccounted for. But what about the other ghosts detainees -- the women?. 7-28-2004

1 in 20 high school girls a victim of rape
One in every 20 Japanese high school girls has been a victim of rape or attempted rape, according to a shocking survey by Asian Women's Fund. Over 60 percent of the schoolgirls who claimed to be the victim of a forced sex attack said they were victims of date rape, being assaulted by friends or boyfriends. 7-28-2004

Hundreds arrested in China's 'war' on Internet porn
China has arrested 224 people in its "war" against pornography on the Internet, according to state media. The suspects were arrested in the days since the nationwide crackdown was launched on July 16, the Xinhua news agency cited sources from the Ministry of Public Security saying. 7-28-2004

FIA is trying to end human trafficking
The additional secretary for the Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control, Abdul Rauf Chaudhry, has said that the government was trying to curb human trafficking, which had brought a disgrace to Pakistan. 7-28-2004

Father indicted for raping kids, forcing them into prostitution
A father from the town Tira, to the south of Haifa, was indicted Tuesday in Tel Aviv District Court on charges of serious sexual abuse of two of his three children and of other related offenses. 7-28-2004

China's porn war nets 13 arrests
China has blocked 988 overseas websites and shut down 67 local ones as part of a nationwide campaign to weed out pornographic internet content. Websites shut down during the July 6-21 special operation included some based in Hong Kong. 7-27-2004

High-tech war on web porn
China is launching a nationwide campaign to crack down on pornographic websites. Over the past month about 30 domestic pornographic websites have been eliminated. 7-27-2004

Japan gets set for the Buttocks generation
Japanese parents have been given government permission to name their children "Buttocks" or "Prostitute" if they wish after a bizarre row over expanding the list of officially acceptable names. 7-27-2004

Journalists accused of human trafficking
Two journalists and a human rights worker have been arrested and charged with human trafficking in mountainous north-eastern Cambodia while en route to investigate the plight of ethnic Montagnard people fleeing alleged persecution in Vietnam. 7-27-2004

Children with AIDS being segregated in schools
After fighting villagers and government officials for a year, 31-year-old T.K. Rema says she has won her battle to gain school admission for her HIV/AIDS-infected children, but she has not won the war yet. 7-27-2004

Muslim women leaders to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS
A group of local Muslim women leaders from Thailand’s three southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani are to be trained in the treatment of AIDS, and how to prevent the spread of the disease. 7-27-2004

Seeking public’s views on sex crimes
The special committee set up to obtain public views on punishment for sex offenders under the Penal Code Bill and the Criminal Procedure Code Bill will start its “meet-the-people sessions” next month. 7-27-2004

Thai sex industry tycoon set to test premier's grip on power
The godfather of Thailand's sex industry is heading the challenge to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's growing political empire in a key election test ahead of national polls early next year. 7-26-2004

China blocks Google in "war" against porn
Beijing has blocked 988 overseas websites and shut down 67 local ones as part of a nationwide campaign to weed out pornographic content on the Internet. 7-26-2004

Quality of sex products sparks concern
Li Jinfa (not his real name) was lying in bed. What he was finding hard to endure was not his lonely nights but the anger he felt towards his toy woman. The toy woman was supposed to be his "sex comforter". Li had bought "her" from a local sex shop for 900 yuan (US$108). 7-26-2004

Private eyes to keep watch on porn films
Private eyes will soon keep tabs on films screened in theatres, to check if they are being sexed up. Detectives have been hired by the regional censor board as part of a nation-wide campaign to check if the board regulations are being violated. 7-26-2004

Sex education: a failure in Chinese schools
Wu Ruomei received a phone call recently from a high school boy who declared that he would make love with a girl "right now."  "All right. But why?" Wu, a senior editor of Chinese Middle School Student's Newspaper, asked calmly. 7-26-2004

'Photographer' sparks riot
A wedding party in Saudi Arabia turned violent after a female guest was caught using her mobile telephone to take digital photographs of other women at the celebration, a local newspaper reported Sunday. 7-26-2004

China convicts baby traffickers
Six of them were sentenced to death and five to life in prison in the biggest single baby trafficking case in recent Chinese history. Over a two-year period the smuggling ring is thought to have bought and sold 118 babies, many of them girls. 7-26-2004

90 million missing females, and a $45 trillion gap
While the United Nations and family planning groups continue in their efforts to lower birthrates, several recent books have drawn attention to the severe economic and social problems linked to having too few children. 7-26-2004

Village councilor busted over child prostitution
A 51-year-old village council member in Kawaba, Gunma Prefecture, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of violating child prostitution laws, police said. 7-26-2004

BSF chief says laws too weak to curtail human trafficking
Stringent laws to curb human trafficking across India-Bangladesh border should be put in place, the BSF chief Ajay Sharma said on Saturday. 7-26-2004

Foreigners arrested for prostitution
Three women, all foreign nationals, have been arrested from a house in Anand Niketan, R K Puram, on Thursday for allegedly running a prostitution racket. Police claimed they had information that a prostitution racket was being run from a house in Anand Niketan. 7-26-2004

Asian prostitution reaches Vermont
The regulars at the Park Place Tavern weren't surprised when police raided what is being described as an Asian brothel in a small house across their shared driveway. 7-26-2004

Canadian charged for tourism sex
A married father of a young child, the first Canadian to be prosecuted under the so-called sex-tourism law, was hit with 16 new charges Friday involving assaults on girls in Southeast Asia. 7-26-2004

Abducted, beaten and sold into prostitution: two women's story from an Iraq in turmoil
When the gunmen came to the gate of their Baghdad home, the lives of the sisters-in-law Huda, 16, and Sajeeda, 24 - the names they wish to be known by - were about to change for ever. 7-25-2004

Tourists bring sex diseases back with souvenirs
Young travellers and sex tourists are returning from exotic locations with more than just tans and souvenirs -- for some, infections such as syphilis and HIV are lingering reminders of a holiday romance. 7-23-2004

Business as usual for prostitutes
It was business as usual for prostitutes in Bangkok, Thailand , even in the midst of the recent 15th International Aids Conference, where the main messages were abstinence, faithfulness and safe sex. 7-23-2004

Bangkok drugstores flooded with fake sexual enhancement drugs
Many pharmacies in Bangkok were selling faked sexual enhancement drugs, the official Thai News Agency (TNA) on Friday quoted public health official as saying. 7-23-2004

Sex assault circulated on cellphones
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz demanded on Thursday that investigators quickly resolve the case of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted in the kingdom's capital, informed sources said. 7-23-2004

Rape charge: Model comes out in the open
The allegations are serious: Rape and threatening to kill. That’s the police complaint, Preeti Jain (24), a model and a small-time actress lodged against Bollywood director, Madhur Bhandarkar, yesterday. 7-23-2004

Singapore bans film for making gays look good
A Taiwanese film that has been huge hit throughout Asia was banned Wednesday in Singapore because it "creates an illusion of a homosexual utopia", government censors said. 7-23-2004

Naked models violate moral code
Police in China's most modern city Shanghai have arrested a group of women and a man accused of organising a nude modelling competition, state press reported. 7-22-2004

China wages people's war against web pornography
The Chinese government has reportedly started a crackdown on Internet pornography, by imposing a ban on the sale of transvestite sex videos, secret web-cams and nude profiles. 7-22-2004

Haifa `stairwell rapist' arrested
Haifa police announced yesteday the arrest of the "stairwell rapist," a Haifa man suspected of raping three women in the last two months. They say had DNA testing been speedier, he would have been caught after the first attack. 7-22-2004

Man jailed for strangling lover in sex game
A Hong Kong court has sentenced a man to six years in jail after he accidentally killed his girlfriend in a sex game of strangulation that turned horribly wrong, a court official says. 7-21-2004

Police tackle prostitution
Guangzhou police had launched a two-month campaign to curb the practice of distributing porn cards for prostitution with 193 people taken in for investigation, police said Monday. 7-21-2004

Tajikistan: Gay rights face uphill struggle
Efforts to advocate the rights of the gay community in Tajikistan, including HIV/AIDS awareness, face an uphill battle given traditional Islamic values and a general intolerance towards homosexuality. 7-21-2004

AIDS hits Taiwan's youth as they have more sex, younger
AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome — is becoming increasingly widespread among Taiwan's youth, in line with similar global trends. Currently youth represent 20 percent of Taiwan's AIDS sufferers. 7-20-2004

500 porn websites disclosed nationwide
Nearly 500 websites across China were reported to have published pornographic content as the country launched a nationwide campaign to clean up online content,a senior official said here Sunday. 7-20-2004

Saddam's regime leaves a generation of women unmarried, shunned
Bagdad - When Saddam Hussein's regime executed Nawal's brother, it also destroyed her future. For more than 20 years, Nawal was shunned by potential suitors, fearful that any association with her family would put them in danger. 7-19-2004

Vietnamese Government Must Wake Up to Country's AIDS Crisis
While the world’s scientists, journalists, politicians, activists, celebrities and other delegates convened in Thailand’s capital for the 15th International AIDS Conference, it’s a surprise that Vietnam has had no presence at this global event. 7-19-2004

Sex education to start in kindergarten for Chinese kids
With an AIDS time-bomb ticking, at least one Chinese province has decided that sex education needs to be taught from kindergarten onwards. 7-19-2004

Prostitution rife in Turkey: Report
Though prostitution is legal in Turkey, most of the women working in the industry are not registered and many are forced to ply their trade against their will, according to a report released on the weekend. 7-19-2004

Changing face of sex-workers in movies
From the pathos of Waheeda Rahman in Pyaasa to the mystic of Rekha in Umrao Jaan and now the boldness of Neha Dhupia in Julie -- the portrayal of sex-workers in Hindi cinema has undergone numerous changes. 7-19-2004

Once marginalised issues now in the forefront
While the lack of major medical breakthroughs might have been the hallmark of the just concluded 15th International AIDS Conference, a radical shift that has occurred on another front, however, is hard to ignore. 7-18-2004

Adult Profile: Mika Tan
Mika Tan, got her start as a model at the age of 9 when hermother thought that because she had such large feet she was going to be extremely tall. With her Okinawan/Chinese mother standing at 5'8" and her Samoan/Japanese dad towering at 6'4", it seemed genetically inevitable. 7-19-2004

Sex slave houses subject of debate
Guan Bo, a resident of Guangzhou, capital city of South China's Guangdong Province, still remembers exactly the place where many women were forced to serve as sex slaves, or so-called "comfort women," for Japanese soldiers during the 1930s and 40s. 7-17-2004

Chinese investors get more than they asked for when brokerage airs porn
Police are questioning an employee of one of China's biggest stock brokerages after a big-screen TV in the firm's Caobao Road trading office broadcast a hardcore porn film for several minutes on Thursday afternoon. 7-16-2004

Lemon juice to battle HIV virus?
Lemon juice vs HIV virus: this is among the hottest topics being debated at the XVth International AIDS conference. Australian scientists claim studies among macaques have shown lemon juice a quick killer of the virus and they are ready for human trials. 7-16-2004

Sex Workers Want Voice in HIV/AIDS Prevention
Sex workers, tired of being blamed for spreading AIDS, said Thursday they could help fight the deadly disease but were being shunned by governments and agencies. 7-15-2004

Foreign workers face abuse, torture in Saudi Arabia: report
Foreign workers face abuse, torture and forced confessions in Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Its 135-page report is called, Bad Dreams: Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia. 7-15-2004

Cops involved in child prostitution
Though the city police have launched a drive to curb child prostitution in Mumbai, social activists alleged that it cannot flourish without the connivance of policemen. 7-15-2004

China hopes to fix gender imbalance among newborns by 2010
China hopes to achieve a normal balance of newborn boys and girls within six years by banning the use of abortions to select an infant's sex and by making welfare payments to couples without sons, a top family planning official said Thursday. 7-15-2004

Voices from the Bangkok AIDS Conference: sex workers and the developing countries
They say their concerns are not being met and are calling for the decriminalisation of the sex trade in Thailand. They say the sex workers themselves should run the sex trade so that they can protect themselves properly against violence and the danger of infectious diseases such as HIV. 7-13-2004

Social boycott for sex change
A man who changed his sex to marry another man is facing social boycott and threats in a small West Bengal town where people are calling his sexuality 'sinister'. 7-13-2004

Thailand's success against AIDS now at risk
Thailand's celebrated success at containing the spread of AIDS is on display every night in places like Soi Cowboy or Nana Plaza off Sukhumvit Avenue in downtown Bangkok. 7-12-2004

Behavior of johns key to AIDS fight
The behavior of men who visit prostitutes will determine how bad the emerging HIV epidemics in Asia will get, according to an analysis by leading scientists. 7-12-2004

Human trafficking in South Asia
Neeta Lama of Nepal is now back with her parents. The thirteen-year-old girl was recently rescued from forced labor in an Indian circus, according to The Washington Times newspaper. Neeta was sold to circus owners in 2002 by her father. 7-12-2004

Bail refused over sex charges
A Sydney man charged with sexually assaulting two young girls in a hotel swimming pool in Vietnam was refused bail today. Gregory Roy Cook, 50, of Lane Cove, was arrested on Thursday over the alleged incident involving two eight-year-old girls at the Furama Hotel in Vietnam. 7-12-2004

AIDS Fight Too Slow, Too Many Heads in Sand: Annan
The global fight against AIDS is falling short and leaders need to get their heads out of the sand as women increasingly bear the brunt of the killer disease, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Sunday. 7-11-2004

AIDS cases 'exploding' in Vietnam
U.S. Ambassador Randall Tobias, head of President Bush's $15 billion global AIDS initiative, saw firsthand this weekend the multitude of challenges facing Vietnam, where one in every 75 households has been touched by the disease. 7-11-2004

Delhi becoming a hub for foreign prostitutes
Has Delhi become a 'hot destination' for foreign prostitutes? The answer is yes, say senior officers of Delhi Police that have cracked the whip on sex workers. Though there are no figures of foreign sex workers living in the capital, their population is growing by leaps and bounds, according to police officers. 7-11-2004

Asia on precipice of disaster
At least 12,000 delegates from around the globe are converging on this Southeast Asian capital city for today's opening of the 15th International AIDS Conference, a six-day event that organizers hope will strengthen world resolve to combat a disease that has already claimed at least 20 million lives. 7-11-2004

Group offers counseling for school victims of sexual harassment
A nationwide network campaigning against sexual harassment in schools began two days of free telephone counseling Saturday for children who have fallen victim to sexual harassment by teachers and school officials. 7-10-2003

U.S. Retreats From AIDS Meet
When the world's top experts on HIV/AIDS gather to swap strategies and experiences in Bangkok, Thailand this weekend, only a tiny handful of the estimated 15,000 attendees will be representing the United States. 7-9-2004

Top U.S. AIDS adviser visits Vietnam
The top U.S. AIDS adviser got a firsthand look Friday at Vietnam's swelling HIV problem as he met with government officials and HIV-positive patients in a country where the epidemic threatens to cross over from high-risk groups into the general population. 7-9-2004  

2 foreigners held in South Delhi for prostitution
Police arrested two foreign call-girls, and an Indian woman who set up their deals, in South Delhi on Thursday night. Police said one of the arrested foreigners is from Ukraine, while the other is from Uzbekistan.. 7-9-2004

‘Enjo Kosai’ – Sex, Schoolgirls and Consumerism in Japan
With the recent decision to ban vending machines selling used schoolgirl’s panties in Tokyo, many foreigners have been deprived of a chance to purchase that quintessential souvenir of “Crazy Japan”. More importantly, the decision illuminates changing attitudes towards practices long considered acceptable in Japanese society. Lawmakers have now signalled that they intend to target another uniquely Japanese phenomenon; ‘subsidised dating’. 7-9-2003

Isreal to extend permits for women trafficking victims
Interior Minister Avraham Poraz said Monday that he would advance a move to grant work and visitor permits for up to two years for women who are victims of sex trade trafficking who testify against their traffickers. 7-8-2004

Playboy's Asian Beauties
It's about time that Playboy came out with an Asian Special Edition. It's not an outstanding issue but definitely a must have for 'die-hard' Asian fans! For some insight into why so many guys are crazy about Asian women, Playboy gave Sung Hi a call at her home in West Hollywood to get the sexy scoop. 7-8-2004

Adult Profile: Veronica Lee
She was born on November 13 in Canada and lived there all her life. A modeling agent scouted her at the age of 14 when she was on vacation with her parents in Vancouver, Canada. At first her father was not happy with the fact that his daughter would be jet setting across the globe, but soon came around and thought that it would be a great life experience for her. 7-8-2004

53 human trafficking victims suspected among deported in February
Fifty-three of the 3,517 people who were deported by immigration bureaus across the country in February were probably victims of human trafficking, a government reply issued at a Cabinet meeting has stated. 7-6-2003 

Israeli Minister calls for institutionalizing prostitution
Interior Minister Avraham Poraz told the Knesset parliamentary committee investigating trafficking in women Tuesday morning he supports the institutionalization of prostitution in Israel. 7-6-2004

Tajikistan: IOM welcomes new law to combat human trafficking
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday welcomed a recent decision by the Tajik government to enact a law combating human trafficking, the first such legislation in Central Asia. 7-6-2004 

Top AIDS fund grants Russia $35 mln for HIV battle
Russia will receive $34.6 million from a leading AIDS fund to treat its growing number of cases of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said on Thursday. 7-2-2004 

Lesbian film fires up Hindu Hardliners
With its titillating scenes bordering on the realm of pornography, the Indian film Girlfriend - a story of two hot and heavy lesbians - is attracting a lot of attention, little of it good. But India is no stranger to threats to its Hindu values - even wearing jeans in certain parts of the country is just too much for some gentlemen to handle. 7-1-2004

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