FTs here to help create JOBS!
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The Electric New Paper :
RAIDED
CHINATOWN BROTHEL USED NET & MOBILE SERVICE TO OPERATE SECRETLY
# Invited to become website member, then get customer number
# Member sends SMS to brothel to book girl
# Customer number checked against member's handphone number
UNTIL last Friday, it was probably Singapore's most hush-hush sex club.
Membership was by recommendation only, and information about it was spread via the Internet, accessible only with special passwords.
10 April 2006
UNTIL last Friday, it was probably Singapore's most hush-hush sex club.
Membership was by recommendation only, and information about it was spread via the Internet, accessible only with special passwords.
Then someone blew the whistle.
Two weeks ago, the police raided the Chinatown cyber-brothel which had promised its clients the fulfilment of their sexual fantasies.
A few hours after the raid, the brothel's website was taken down.
The site disappeared as quickly and as quietly as when it was first set up in February.
Police spokesman Sandra Yip said no massage licence or other permits had been granted to those who ran the place.
The brothel had begun operations discreetly.
Unlike others, there was not the usual red lantern outside its premises. No large address number plate. No signboard.
It looked like any other Chinatown shophouse.
And it took extreme measures to ensure secrecy. For instance, only those who signed up as 'club members' got the password to enter its website. (See report on facing page).
Despite this, it still attracted around 100 members.
What was the draw?
The tagline on its website claimed it was an exclusive members-only 'Gentlemen's Club'.
The bigger lure was sex with women dressed as air stewardesses, corporate executives, secretaries - even Sailor Moon, the popular Japanese Anime character.
The name of this so-called club was 'Dreams Come True'.
But the fantasy world was busted after a reader of The New Paper on Sunday e-mailed us about the joint.
Most of the customers were believed to be white-collar workers.
But was it really as exclusive as it claimed? The operators were happy to recruit just about any surfer who frequented online sex websites.
Based on members' discussions on the website, the women appeared to be foreigners who worked illegally while here on social visit passes.
We learnt that the first group of people the pimps targeted were active members of a public Internet sex forum. It is known to men who frequently visit prostitutes.
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MEMBERS' 'REVIEWS'
When they sign up they are allowed to read 'reviews' of the girls by other members. They could also detail their preference for certain costumes.
Such peer group interaction was another aspect of this underground activity.
Clients had sex with foreigners who might have sex-related diseases or who might have been tested HIV positive. No one knew and no one asked.
The added danger was that the unlicensed brothel did not conduct any health checks.
Each session cost $140.
With information obtained from the brothel's website, our undercover correspondent was able to find the place. It was a less than five-minute walk from Chinatown MRT station.
The brothel was on the top floor of a three-storey shophouse, which also houses restaurants, law firms and other offices.
Open from 11am to 11pm, it was accessible by a flight of stairs.
Although the brothel claimed to offer massage services, it did not seem to have proper massage rooms.
Instead, there were about four small cubicles, with mattresses or raised massage beds in them.
Each cubicle was named after one of the four seasons, and the respective Chinese character for spring, summer, autumn or winter was displayed outside.
Separated by partitions, the cubicles were dimly-lit.
During the two-hour late-afternoon police raid, two men were seen leaving the brothel after the police arrived.
The first to leave was a man in his late 20s.
Alone, the bespectacled man with short gelled hair wore a dark, long-sleeved shirt and business pants.
A few minutes later, an older man stepped out.
He appeared to be in his late 50s and was clad in a polo T-shirt and long pants.
Then the girls appeared.
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GIRLS ROUNDED UP
A woman with long straight hair dressed in a white T-shirt and blue knee-length pants was led by a policewoman to an unmarked police van parked by the roadside.
Three others followed.
The first two were handcuffed to each other and the last two had their hands cuffed behind their backs.
One woman was in a white nurse's uniform while the other was dressed as an air stewardess.
A customer, waiting for his meal at the restaurant next door with his friends said to them: 'Did you see that? There's one still in air stewardess uniform.'
Police spokesman Lily Lee said: 'Acting on information, a team of CID officers raided the premises known as 'Dream Place' at about 5 pm (on 31 March).
'Four women, all China nationals on social visit passes and aged between 25 and 32, were arrested for suspected involvement in illicit vice activities.
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HOW CLIENTS GOT INTO BROTHEL
THE secret brothel was uncovered after a The New Paper on Sunday reader e-mailed us about the joint.
The reader wrote: '(The owner) has set up a (Internet) forum and manages the website (from home).
'Members (of a sex website) are invited to register for this forum. For security reasons, members are enrolled by invitation only.
'(The owner) has multiple security measures. Please use discretion when investigating.'
Ordinary Internet surfers would not have be able to find any information about it, even with search engines such as Google.
The whistle-blower, who also sent his email to the police, gave The New Paper on Sunday a user name and password to enter the website.
Using a members-only group hosted by a popular Internet search engine, the moderator of the group invited new members via e-mail.
We learnt that the first group of people the pimps targeted were active members of a public Internet sex forum. This group is known to men who frequently visit prostitutes.
When they sign up they are allowed to read 'reviews' of the girls by other members. They could also detail their preference for certain costumes.
For example, in a recent poll conducted on the brothel's website, the majority of those who took part revealed their top locker-room fantasy - having prostitutes adopt the 'office' and 'cabin crew' look.
It promoted its services through a gallery showing its girls in various poses.
After being invited to join by the group's moderator, a new member would get a customer number.
Using this assigned number, the member could send an SMS to the pimp to reserve a time-slot and indicate the girl he preferred.
Each session cost $140.
The pimp would check the customer number against the member's handphone number.
Also, a member could ask for a two-digit referral number.
His friends who were not members of the Internet group could use the member's customer number and referral number when they visited the brothel.
The pimp would check if the numbers given were accurate before he allowed them in.
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Report:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,104764,00.html?
Pic:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/picturegallerypopup/0,6303,StoryPage-104764-1,00.html?
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NOt the kind the gov encourage thoughOriginally posted by ShutterBug:There you have it!
FOREIGN TALENTS! -
Sleaze comes to the heartlands
Saturday June 24, 10:17 AM
Two weeks ago, senior supervisor Gary spotted a handwritten poster outside a beauty salon in his Housing Development Board estate.
It was offering a one-hour massage session for $30.
"I was feeling tired from work and thought I could do with a massage. It seemed a good deal," said Gary, 38. Instead, the father of four went inside and was offered sex by the mainland Chinese masseuse.
Of late, scores of such parlours have started sprouting up in heartland estates such as Ang Mo Kio, Bedok and Toa Payoh. It appears that many are clearly in violation of the law.
A massage establishment does not require a licence if it offers only curative treatment in full view of other customers. Otherwise, it needs a licence to operate and its masseuses have to go for mandatory health screenings.
The clincher: Such massage parlours are not allowed in areas including HDB estates, or near schools, hospitals and places of worship.
But a check with the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority showed that in the past 12 months alone, 509 establishments registered themselves to offer massage and foot reflexology services, many of which were in HDB residential areas.
They presented a harmless front and appeared to offer tui na, or traditional Chinese massage, for as little as $30. Others advertised themselves as places that provided eyebrow plucking, acupuncture and facial cleansing.
On the face of it, these services would not require a police licence, which would costs $480 a year.
But inside, not only were customers taken inside private cubicles, they were explicitly offered sexual services.
Mr Peter Sng, president of the Spa Association Singapore, was surprised to learn that more than 500 establishments had registered themselves over a single year to offer massage-related services.
"It's incredible that there are so many of them. The association is very concerned with the growing number of massage establishments springing up in the neighbourhoods," said Mr Sng. "We encourage the authorities set up more stringent checks as well as looking into ways to regularise these businesses."
There should be checks to stop HDB estates from turning into another Joo Chiat, with masseuses prowling void decks and coffeeshops, he added.
"(The massage parlours) may grow into a cluster. When a cluster is formed, competition is greater and may take on a more visible form as seen in Joo Chiat," he said.
A Today visit to Ang Mo Kio found nascent clusters already forming.
At Street 43, there were six massage parlours facing each other in an open-space car park, each with their entrances at the back of the four-storey shophouse block. Customers made their way up the stairs to the second floor, where business is carried out.
On Street 52, there were five joints within a 50m radius.
While many of these may be legitimate businesses, at least one parlour at each of the two locations was willing to offer sexual services.
Last year, six massage parlours had their licences revoked, all for offences committed under the Women's Charter, said police spokeswoman Assistant Superintendent Siow Cheng Cheng.
But many of these establishments may not even have licences, since licensed massage parlours do not operate in HDB residential areas.
Last Sunday, a masseuse was killed at one such establishment in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.
Apart from the possibility of violence and health threats — only staff from licensed parlours go for health screenings — a resident of Yishun Street 22 raised another concern.
Pointing to an establishment with frosted glass windows, a retiree said: "School children and young kids walk past here all the time. It's not good for them to see all this." - /sh -
Police to tighten licensing regulations for massage parlours
Saturday June 24, 10:17 PM
SINGAPORE: The tighter licensing regulations for massage parlours came as welcome news to 65 year old Lim Tow Seng, who owns a hairdressing salon at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.
He now keeps his back gate locked at all times, as people had been coming into his shop asking about massage services, and his children were mistaken for masseuses.
Mr Lim said such activities should not be allowed, and he is not alone in his views.
An angry resident at Ang Mo Kio Street 43 pointed to activities going on at a couple of second floor units offering massage services.
Channel News Asia checked out the area and found more than 5 massage parlours there.
The mushrooming of such services had also affected genuine businesses.
Zhou Chuen Mei, a masseuse at Orchid Charm Traditional Massage Theraphy at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 turns away customers asking for what she called 'special services'.
She has the approval and support of her neighbours.
Currently, massage parlours, offering traditional and curative massage services, do not require a licence if treatment is done in the open, in front of other patients.
But if it's otherwise, such parlours need to be licensed and the masseuses have to undergo mandatory health screening.
These massage parlours are not allowed in HDB estates, near schools, hospitals and places of worship.
In the past year alone, more than 500 massage and foot reflexology centres were registered, and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority records show that many of these were in the HDB heartlands. - CNA /dt -
Finally after 1 death, someone start to do some work liao!
Economy really doing BETTER than data suggest lah!
So many jobs created, you see!
AMK becoming one big sleeze town.
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Hmmm...i tot AMK is PM LHL ward rite..Originally posted by ObviousMan:AMK becoming one big sleeze town.
MPs all sleeping har?
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Ya right... create more work for the CID and Vice Officers.
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We might as well rent our hdb flats to them to do their business and we shake leg at hm , and collect the rent frm them .
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goverment love this kind ok.Originally posted by NewAge:NOt the kind the gov encourage though
they will make u pay license fee to open a massage joint if u want to do special buiness then they make u pay more
if really hate them geylang close down long ago..sia -
Precisely, it is ominous.Originally posted by kaka_22:Hmmm...i tot AMK is PM LHL ward rite..
I call it the beginnng of the end.
Mark my words.
(1) Election drew devilish 66.6% of votes.
(2) Poorly run election focusing on JG application form, entire campaign more hype than real ideas.
(3) AMK becoming a sleaze town.
(4) Casino built like 3 ancestral tablets, like a graveyard fronting the financial district.
(5) A generation of less than self-sustaining birthrate points to inevitable decline of Singaporeans, made worse by worsening society standards.
(6) Nation growing richer but more falling behind.
OK, so not all points based on facts but what the heck!
Sooner or later, SG will become:
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OK, so not all points based on facts but what the heck!
Sooner or later, SG will become:[/b][/quote]
become what??? i only c a cross...
and yup, e resort is plain ugly.... -
damm.
got any more?
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not that they mind too until someone complains.Originally posted by NewAge:NOt the kind the gov encourage though -
taiwan got Ping Lang Xi shi, Sinagpore got An Mo Xi shi
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Hot Link got problem lah!Originally posted by asdfzhao:OK, so not all points based on facts but what the heck!
Sooner or later, SG will become:
become what??? i only c a cross...
and yup, e resort is plain ugly....
Repost below:
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The Electric New Paper :
Ever seen a karung guni woman dressed like this?
One Jurong resident has. He says: She offered me 'extra services'
THIS karung guni woman wears perfume, sexy clothes and offers extras - right at your doorstep.
29 June 2006
THIS karung guni woman wears perfume, sexy clothes and offers extras - right at your doorstep.
She has been going around HDB flats in Jurong, pretending to buy old items, but that is actually a cover for her to offer massage services.
HOT PANTS
She wears heavy make-up and is clad in a pair of hot pants and cleavage-revealing top.
She holds a horn in one hand to look like a karung guni woman.
But as soon as a man answers the door, she turns on her charm and offers the extra services, reported Lianhe Wanbao.
A resident in Jurong, Mr Huang, told the newspaper that about a month ago, a long-haired woman who seemed to be in her 30s came knocking on his door, asking if he had any old newspapers to sell.
'Not only was she dressed sexily, she was also wearing a lot of perfume. She didn't look like a karung guni person at all,' he told Lianhe Wanbao.
When he replied that he did not have any newspapers to sell, the woman started asking him questions about his family.
In no time, she popped the question - do you want me to give you a massage?
The administrative executive, 40, declined. But she did not back off.
She kept persuading him, saying that her services were very cheap.
'But I kept telling her I was not interested. I even told her I had only $20 to $30 on me and couldn't afford a massage,' said Mr Huang.
He added that from her accent, he could tell she was from China.
She did not give up and replied: 'Don't say that. I accept loose change too.'
She even tried to enter the flat.
At one time, she asked to use the toilet. Then, she asked for some water to drink.
And all the time, she would be fiddling with her hair seductively and touching his hand, which was on the gate.
'She kept emphasising that her skills were superb, and that I would definitely be very satisfied,' said Mr Huang.
'Half in jest, I asked her how satisfied I would be. She replied that whatever I wanted, I would get.'
He was put off by her tactics. Besides, he also feared for his safety.
'I don't know who's lying in ambush nearby. What if they barge in as soon as I open the door? It's always good to be cautious,' he reasoned.
The woman was not deterred by his indifference and continued persuading him.
In the end, Mr Huang came up with an excuse and said he had an old computer which he wanted to sell and asked if she was interested.
'I think after that, it finally sank in that I would not succumb to temptation and relent,' he said.
She told him she would contact him later and left.
The whole episode lasted about 20 minutes.
She did not return.
Mr Huang said it was not the first time that he had come across such 'door-to-door' services.
It had happened several times when he was at his friends' flats in Chinatown and Boon Keng.
'They claim to be collecting old newspapers. But they are always hinting at the extra services,' he said.
Some of them even bend or squat to show more flesh.
Mr Huang said his family members are worried that prostitution has crept into the residential area. He felt it would not be easy to detect and stamp out such door-to-door services.
Business must be in full public view
STRICTER rules for massage parlours kicked in on Monday.
Unlicensed massage parlours, which are usually run by China women, now have to conduct their businesses in full public view.
They can no longer have cubicles, curtains, partitions, or even tinted glass windows.
The employees must be Singaporeans, permanent residents or Malaysians here on work permits. They have to be decently dressed and cannot tout for business.
Operators must register their businesses with the police by 26 Aug.
The new rules were introduced because of concerns about the spread of vice in the heartlands.
And they have already affected the massage business.
The Straits Times visited a cluster of seven parlours along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 on Monday afternoon.
Of these, five were closed. One of the operators had even removed the signboard.
Study mamas who used to work in the parlours said they would have to return to China if they could not find other jobs that paid so well.
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Wah, Service Standards Improving!
Now, karang guni also got extra services with personal touch!
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i would say that PRC nationals are very innovative and proactive!