Beijing Massage Parlors: China’s Prostitutes Rally For Legalization
Ye Haiyan, a sex worker and single mother in Hubei province, was detained Sunday by plain-clothes officers for several days for organizing the group, which carried banners, collected signatures and called for an end to the persecution of sex workers. She is being held at “a resort” for “two to three days of studies.”
Having launched the Chinese Women’s Rights Workshop — which distributes condoms and HIV prevention brochures to local brothels — Ye said legislation would protect sex workers’ health and stem trafficking and corruption. “Brothels are not cheap places. Most consumers are quite rich and spend a lot usually. So where is the money coming from? If prostitution was legalized, such income could be more transparent,” she told The Guardian .
The World Health Organization estimates that China has around 4 million sex workers, but other sources suggest the figure is higher, with many hotels, hairdressers, massage parlors and karaoke bars known to serve as false fronts for such activity. In June, Chongqing’s Hilton Hotel was closed for several days after police raided a basement bar.
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Beijing Escorts: Away From China’s Top Cities: Property Reassurance
China’s property-market restrictions instituted in April, including higher mortgage down-payment requirements for second and third apartments, appear to be achieving their intended effect. High-end property sales have fallen sharply in China’s wealthiest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. If official statistics are to be believed, prices have so far fallen only marginally, but they are expected to come down further.
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The relatively mild slump in China’s lesser cities is mostly because they experienced a less fantastic boom. During the major property market up cycle from mid-2009 to March 2010, prices rose by only 10-20% in the Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, according to the developer survey. That compares with an average 34% rise in the top-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Standard Chartered said, citing data from the China Real Estate Information Corporation.
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Beijing Escorts: Foreigners in big cities don’t realize how lucky they are
Beijing of late certainly has its modern benefits and, let’s be honest, for those willing to uproot themselves to move here led by curiosity, and an impulsively purchased plane ticket, arriving in China’s capital isn’t as hard as moving to, say, “real China”.
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Honestly, those of you who live in China’s big cities like Shanghai and Beijing don’t even realize how easy you have it. Some people speak English, for starters.
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In small towns, we know what it’s like to find salvation in taking a bus to the closest second-tier city every two weeks, locating a Carrefour, and purchasing our beloved coffee, cheese, baguettes and ridiculously overpriced cereals. On that note, it eventually becomes almost incomprehensible to hear even tourists in Beijing complain how Starbucks ran out of flavoring for their “Chai-soy-vanilla-super-low-fat-latte”.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Shanghai fails to show up in campaign against prostitution in China
Beijing, August 3 (ANI): Shanghai has failed to show up in a high-profile nationwide campaign against prostitution among a roster of 26 Chinese cities, giving rise to speculations that the local police want to keep a low profile for visitors during the World Expo this year.
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Beijing Massage Parlors: Sex worker ‘held after protest’
Beijing – An activist Chinese sex worker said she had been detained after fronting an unusual protest to demand legalised prostitution, rampant in China despite an official ban since the Communists took power six decades ago.
Ye Haiyan, who also goes by the name of “Hooligan Sparrow”, rallied a small group of sex workers and their supporters in the central Chinese city of Wuhan last Thursday.
The group, holding red umbrellas, carried banners and collected signatures urging an end to discrimination against sex workers.
“I cannot talk or use the Internet right now, I am with them,” Ye told Reuters by text message, having been detained on Sunday.Continues Below ↓
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She soon opened her own NGO, the Chinese Women’s Rights Workshop, to promote sex workers’ health and human rights, visiting massage parlours and barber shops in Wuhan to distribute condoms and Aids-prevention pamphlets.
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Beijing Massage Parlors: Police detain China activist for sex worker rights
BEIJING — Plainclothes officers detained a Chinese activist for sex workers’ rights Monday, a few days after she publicly called for prostitution to be legalized, her sister said.
Ye Haiyan was nabbed at the offices of her community group, the China Women’s Rights Workshops, and told she would be held for two or three days of “studies,” her sister, Ye Sha, told The Associated Press.
Dissidents in China are often detained by authorities with the explanation that they are “going for studies” or “taking a vacation.” Usually, they are kept at a guesthouse to prevent them from moving about freely during sensitive dates.
Last week, Ye Haiyan and a few supporters asked people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where she is based, to sign a petition in support of legalizing prostitution, according to an account on her group’s website. She also called for Aug. 3 — Tuesday — to be marked as “Sex Workers’ Day.”
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Prostitution is rampant in China despite frequent government crackdowns, and sexual services are openly offered in massage parlors, karaoke bars and nightclubs.
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Beijing Massage Parlors: Police detain China activist for sex worker rights
BEIJING — Plainclothes officers detained a Chinese activist for sex workers’ rights Monday, a few days after she publicly called for prostitution to be legalized, her sister said.
Ye Haiyan was nabbed at the offices of her community group, the China Women’s Rights Workshops, and told she would be held for two or three days of “studies,” her sister, Ye Sha, told The Associated Press.
Dissidents in China are often detained by authorities with the explanation that they are “going for studies” or “taking a vacation.” Usually, they are kept at a guesthouse to prevent them from moving about freely during sensitive dates.
Last week, Yu Haiyan and a few supporters asked people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where she is based, to sign a petition in support of legalizing prostitution, according to an account on her group’s website. She also called for Aug. 3 — Tuesday — to be marked as “Sex Workers’ Day.”
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Prostitution is rampant in China despite frequent government crackdowns, and sexual services are openly offered in massage parlors, karaoke bars and nightclubs.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: China moves to end public shaming of suspects
… 07-28) 04:00 PDT Beijing — The Chinese government has called for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored cudgel of Chinese law enforcement that has increasingly rattled the public.
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The new regulations are thought to be a response to the public outcry over a recent spate of “shame parades,” in which those suspected of being prostitutes are shackled and forced to walk in public.
In October, the police in Henan province took to the Internet, posting photographs of women suspected of being prostitutes. Other cities have been publishing the names and addresses of convicted sex workers and those of their clients. The most widely circulated images, taken this month in the southern city of Dongguan, included young women roped together and paraded barefoot through crowded city streets.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: China tries to stop the public shaming of suspects
Beijing - The Chinese government is calling for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored, but increasingly hated, practice of Chinese law enforcement. China’s state-run media reports that the Ministry of Public Security has ordered the police to stop parading suspects in public and is instead calling on local police departments to enforce laws in a “rational, calm and civilized manner.”
The New York Times reports that the new regulations are believed to stem from the public’s negative response to a string of “shame parades”. The latest incident which happened just last month was in the southern city of Dongguan, where a group of young Chinese girls accused of being prostitutes, were shackled, barefoot and paraded in front of the public. The police, when asked about the incident, said this was not punishment for the women, just a way for them to seek help in their pursuit of an investigation.
Last October, police in Henan Province went on the Internet and posted photographs of wo …
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Beijing Escorts: China bans "shame parades" of prostitutes
BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhuanet) — China will end the public shaming of prostitutes by parading them through the streets, the People’s Daily reported on Tuesday, following controversy over cases in which sex workers were paraded in public.
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Prostitution is illegal in China and police sometimes used means such as parading prostitutes in public as a deterrent. However, recent cases have sparked controversy on the Internet.
Earlier this month, local media in the city of Dongguan in southern China’s Guangdong province published pictures of two suspected prostitutes and two patrons who had been detained by police. The handcuffed girls were shown walking barefoot, handcuffed and tethered by a rope around their waists.
In another case this month, police in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, posted a public notice about a vice raid, including personal information about prostitutes and their clients.
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