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The three prostitutes she recruited were all waitresses at the nightclub, and Sun pocketed 30 to 50 percent of their illegal income, it said.
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Passion Nightclub, also known as the “Heaven Earth,” was one of the four nightclubs closed by Beijing authorities last year following a crackdown on prostitution.
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The chief culprit behind a massive fire at CCTV headquarters has had his jail term extended by 13 years for corruption, a court in Beijing said on Monday.
Xu Wei, former head of the construction office of China Central Television’s new headquarters, was convicted of embezzling 3.2 million yuan ($506,000) from two CCTV subsidiaries to buy an apartment and pay for air tickets and tours for relatives between 2005 and 2007, according to a verdict handed down by the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People’s Court on last Monday.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Beijing nightclub manager gets four-year jail term for illegal pandering …
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A local court in Chaoyang district handed down the sentence on Monday for Sun Lixia, former deputy manager of the Passion Nightclub at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in one of Beijing’s busiest commercial areas.
Sun, 24 and college-educated, arranged prostitutes for the nightclub’s customers from November 2009 to April 2010, charging 3,000 to 5,000 yuan (475 to 791 U.S. dollars) each time, the court said in a statement.
The three prostitutes she recruited were all escort girls at the nightclub, and Sun pocketed 30 to 50 percent of their illegal income, it said.
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It said Sun’s lawyer defended her innocence, saying the accusations lacked solid evidence from any of the men hiring the prostitutes.
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Passion Nightclub, also known as the “Heaven Earth,” was one of the four nightclubs closed by Beijing authorities last year following a crackdown on prostitution.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Nightclub manager jailed for pandering
BEIJING – A former Beijing nightclub manager has received a four-year jail term for illegal pandering.
A local court in Chaoyang district handed down the sentence on Monday for Sun Lixia, former deputy manager of the Passion Nightclub at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in one of Beijing’s busiest commercial areas.
Sun, 24 and college-educated, arranged prostitutes for the nightclub’s customers from November 2009 to April 2010, charging 3,000 to 5,000 yuan ($475 to $791) each time, the court said in a statement.
The three prostitutes she recruited were all escort girls at the nightclub, and Sun pocketed 30 to 50 percent of their illegal income, it said.
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It said Sun’s lawyer defended her innocence, saying the accusations lacked solid evidence from any of the men hiring the prostitutes.
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Passion Nightclub, also known as the “Heaven Earth,” was one of the four nightclubs closed by Beijing authorities last year following a crackdown on prostitution.
See the full article from “China Daily”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Nightclub Manager Gets 4-year Jail for Illegal Pandering
A former Beijing nightclub manager has received a four-year jail term for illegal pandering.
A local court in Chaoyang district handed down the sentence on Monday for Sun Lixia, former deputy manager of the Passion Nightclub at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in one of Beijing’s busiest commercial areas.
Sun, 24 and college-educated, arranged prostitutes for the nightclub’s customers from November 2009 to April 2010, charging 3,000 to 5,000 yuan (475 to 791 U.S. dollars) each time, the court said in a statement.
The three prostitutes she recruited were all escort girls at the nightclub, and Sun pocketed 30 to 50 percent of their illegal income, it said.
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It said Sun’s lawyer defended her innocence, saying the accusations lacked solid evidence from any of the men hiring the prostitutes.
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Passion Nightclub, also known as the “Heaven Earth,” was one of the four nightclubs closed by Beijing authorities last year following a crackdown on prostitution.
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Beijing Escorts: Zhang, Bale blossom together on "Flowers of War"
… Oscar winning actor Christian Bale arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film ‘The Flowers of War,’ in Beijing on December 12, 2011.Photograph by: MARK RALSTON/Getty Images, MARK RALSTON/Getty Images
(Reuters) – In 100 years of Chinese film, “The Flowers of War” is the first major title to feature a western movie star. It earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign language film, and is China’s entry for Oscars.
Budgeted at $100 million and paid for by the Chinese government, “Flowers of War” stars Oscar-winner Christian Bale as John Miller, an opportunist mortician on the run in 1937 as the Japanese are invading the province of Nanking, now known as Nanjing. The Japanese occupation led to the deaths of thousands of Chinese citizens and came to be known by some as the Rape of Nanking or the Nanjing Massacre.
In the film, which has a limited U.S. release this week before opening nationwide in 2012, Bale’s character must save a group of schoolgirls from the clutches of the Japanese. At the same time, he falls in love with a Chinese courtesan.
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Beijing Escorts: The End of the Chinese Dream – by Christina Larson
BEIJING – In June, a Chinese friend of mine who grew up in the northern industrial city of Shenyang and recently graduated from university moved to Beijing to follow his dream — working for a media company. He has a full-time job, but the entry-level pay isn’t great and it’s tough to make ends meet. When we had lunch recently, he brought up his housing situation, which he described as “not ideal.” He was living in a three-bedroom apartment split by seven people, near the Fourth Ring Road — the outer orbit of the city. Five of his roommates were young women who went to work each night at 11 p.m. and returned around 4 a.m. “They say they are working the overnight shift at Tesco,” the British retailer, but he was dubious. One night he saw them entering a KTV Club wearing lots of makeup and “skirts much shorter than my boxers” and, tellingly, proceeding through the employee entrance. “So they are prostitutes,” he concluded. “I feel a little uncomfortable.”
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Beijing Escorts: A tax weapon that cuts both ways in China
In 2009, Beijing traced 119.2 billion yuan (Bt588 billion) in missing taxes, or 0.002 per cent of total tax receipts, but that was probably the tip of the iceberg.
Enter the fapiao, or official invoice – a flimsy yet effective weapon in the battle against tax dodgers.
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“In the beginning, the chances of winning in Beijing were quite high. I used to ask for invoices because of this. But now it has become a habit,” said IT manager Zhang Rui, 37, of the tax lottery system, launched in 1998.
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For businesses, invoices amount to higher operational costs, noted Henry Wong, business director of an international school in Beijing.
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Officials accused in graft cases have been known to make exorbitant expense claims by misusing invoices. One urban legend has it that prostitutes in Amsterdam even proposition potential Chinese clients by cooing: “Come in, have fapiao!”
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Strauss-Kahn returns to public stage in China
French prosecutors shelved a separate sex assault complaint against him when he returned home but his name keeps cropping up in relation to an inquiry into a prostitution ring in northern France. He has asked to be allowed explain himself but has yet to secure an appointment with the investigation team to do so.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Strauss-Kahn returns to public stage in China
Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of France delivers a speech during an economic forum in Beijing December 19, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Jason Lee
PARIS | Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:46am IST
PARIS (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to public life on Monday as guest speaker at a Beijing conference, seven months after his arrest on now-dropped attempted rape charges ended his hopes of becoming France’s next president.
No longer bound by the constraints of financial diplomacy and economic rescue negotiations, Strauss-Kahn faulted Europe’s leaders for being in denial for too long over the region’s debt crisis. “The problem is they are still in denial,” he said.
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French prosecutors shelved a separate sex assault complaint against him when he returned home but his name keeps cropping up in relation to an inquiry into a prostitution ring in northern France. He has asked to be allowed explain himself but has yet to secure an appointment with the investigation team to do so.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Strauss-Kahn returns to public stage in China
PARIS (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to public life on Monday as guest speaker at a Beijing conference, seven months after his arrest on now-dropped attempted rape charges ended his hopes of becoming France’s next president.
No longer bound by the constraints of financial diplomacy and economic rescue negotiations, Strauss-Kahn faulted Europe’s leaders for being in denial for too long over the region’s debt crisis. “The problem is they are still in denial,” he said.
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French prosecutors shelved a separate sex assault complaint against him when he returned home but his name keeps cropping up in relation to an inquiry into a prostitution ring in northern France. He has asked to be allowed explain himself but has yet to secure an appointment with the investigation team to do so.
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