5/10/2010
Hostess at 14, Mamasan at 19
MENTION “mamasan” and one would expect women in their late 40s or 50s.
Mamasans are likely to be those who have retired from their days as hostesses to take on a more supervisory role.
But Miss Kanda Loh Kailing, who testified at a six-day coroner’s inquiry in March over the hit-and-run [...]
Here on a long-term social visit pass, Miss Na-li has worked as a beer promoter and a prostitute in Geylang, and a masseuse at two massage parlours in Chinatown.
“You name it, I’d have done it. I’ve had customers who sneaked off without paying me after sex,” she said.
“Some turn nasty when pressed for payment and [...]
SOCIAL-SCIENCE graduate Amber (not her real name), 23, tells her family she is in sales, but works as a social escort.
She felt that making money from working in her family business was “too slow”, and chanced upon a recruitment advertisement by social-escort firm Velvet 6 Management while searching for a better job.
She said: “I [...]
FOR more than a decade, Changi Village has been a haunt for transvestites offering sex. Now, they have gone a step further - to residents’ doorsteps.
And residents nearby are sick of it. Sick of the shenanigans and the litter in front of their homes. They are grossed out by piles of used condoms and soiled [...]
4/18/2010
Residents are upset over influx of prostitutes into some neighbourhoods
WHEN businessman Ng Choon Beng moved into his terrace house in Upper Serangoon Road three years ago, the neighbourhood was a quiet, leafy residential area with great food.
Then, Hotel 81 and Fragrance Hotel came up just a few doors away and started offering hourly rates.
’There wasn’t [...]
By S Ramesh : Posted: 03 April 2010
SINGAPORE: Police arrested 12 female Chinese nationals on April 1 following an operation conducted at two budget hotels in the Kovan area.
Investigations showed that some of those arrested had used the Internet to advertise their sexual services.
Assistant Director of the Specialised Crime Division, Superintendent of [...]
2010 Feb 24
WHEN Chinese national Wang Yanbin first arrived in Singapore three weeks ago to work at a factory, his fellow workers were keen to help him settle in.
Other than telling him where to buy local produce and pre-paid phone cards, they also told him where he could find prostitutes.
Said Mr Wang, a 21-year-old native [...]
2/22/2010
This much is clear: The number of child sex abuse cases reported in last year - particularly where a child is abused at home by a family member - is on the decline.
The Ministry of Community Youth and Sports (MCYS) said 32 such cases were reported last year, down from the 45 in 2008.
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2/08/2010
For the second time in two weeks, officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and other law enforcement agencies swept through Geylang and along Orchard Road.
In the latest operation, which started on Saturday night and ended early yesterday morning, 158 persons were arrested for a range of offences, some of them drugs, gang and vice [...]
1/13/2010
PROSTITUTES have largely retreated from the Geylang streets with daily anti-vice sweeps, but they are appearing elsewhere - on the Internet.
At least seven websites are openly hawking Thai and Chinese prostitutes, a sign that pimps are increasingly tapping technology to sell sleaze beyond the red-light district.
The online brothels trouble counsellors who fear they make it [...]
