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 [...]
Channel NewsAsia –
Thursday, January 14 2010
Rise of STIs “especially alarming”, says Health Minister
SINGAPORE: Since 2000, the rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among those under age 20 has been “especially alarming”, in the words of Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan — doubling from 61 cases per 100,000 in that age group, to 133 in [...]
1/02/2010
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 [...]
AP - Tuesday, January 5 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Fifty-two unmarried Muslim couples face charges of sexual misconduct and possible jail terms after being caught alone in hotel rooms by Malaysia’s Islamic morality police during a New Year’s Day crackdown, an official said Monday.
Scores of officers fanned out across budget hotels in central Selangor state [...]
12/08/2009
A FORMER National Environment support officer who tried to get sexual favours from a teen smoker’s mother was jailed for four months on Tuesday.
Koh Hui Chong, 43, had earlier pleaded guilty to attempting to get the sexual bribe from a 44-year-old woman in return for not taking action against her then 15-year-old son for underage [...]
12/04/2009
A 64-year-old Singaporean man married a 40-year-old China woman despite knowing her for less than half a year, only to find out one month into their marriage that she is a prostitute.
Mr Chen, who spoke to the local Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao, said that he first met his China wife, Ah Ping, in April [...]
THEY are touted as a sex drug, called poppers. Like the banned sex pills, Power 1 Walnut and Urat Madu, which led to deaths. And like those sex pills, poppers can kill.
Despite this, they are being sold in 8ml bottles at several gay spas here. The fumes from this highly-volatile liquid are inhaled by some [...]
