Chinese prostitutes in Singapore

My mum alerted me to this story in the Straits Times: China hookers are now in your neighbourhood.

… as the 84-year-old retiree walked past the library in Toa Payoh Central, a long-haired woman, all dolled up, approached him and said: ‘Lao bo, wo dai ni qu wan.’ Translated, it means: ‘Old uncle, let me take you out to play.’

His amused reply: ‘I’m not a three-year-old but over 80 years old. Play for what?’

She wasn’t put off. ‘She followed me all the way to the interchange before giving up,’ he added. ‘I tried to walk quickly but it was of no use.’

Professional beggars can also keep up the pace in China as you try to get away from them. Some of the limping old ladies and men suddenly start power walking when you speed up.

Other solutions suggested by the MPs include: more frequent police raids, increasing the number of designated red-light zones so that such activities can be confined and regulated, and public education for Singaporean men.

Hong Kah MP Ahmad Khalis Abdul Ghani wants immigration officials to track visitors with suspect travel patterns. Mayor Othman says the women caught should be blacklisted and barred from returning. Yet, all of them caution against being ‘unfriendly to our friends from China’.

Singapore recently relaxed restrictions on visitors from China, granting visas valid for up to 30 days, up from 14 days previously.

Increasing ‘designated red light zones’ will do jack. These carry a stigma, suburban hooking is less obvious. More raids and immediate jailing of culprits (and pimps) would be good. I’m curious to find out what kind of public education for Singaporean men would be effective — “Don’t talk to Chinese women, especially if they want to show you a good time?”

Yeah, I can see that making a big difference. The Chinese women who live in Singapore, who are there legitimately, are not happy about this turn of events.

While Singapore’s government is happy to be extremely, unreasonably strict with Indonesian and Filipino domestic workers, they can’t be ‘unfriendly’ to China. What a fucking joke.

5 Jul 2004

15 Comments

yea..thats one big farkin joke. wussup with the double standards? the filipinos and indons do have a hard time here.at least the philipino hookers stay around at orchard towers, and not to the extent where they have to go all the way to the heartlanders and look out for these eay target ah peks who just receive full sum of cpf $$ at coffeshops like wat the china prostitutes do.

sno
5 Jul 2004

Chinese prostitutes are just applying what they learned at home. Cruel, but true.

andrea
5 Jul 2004

Yes, there seems to be a demand and they are filling that. And now it is not even China, the latest entrants are the Vietnamese.

And it is not just Singapore. You can see the scam girls from China hanging around posh hotels in Fiji. One of the guys I met there, a heavy equipment supplier from Hangzhou, was telling me how there is a well run underground network that services mainly the East Asian visitors and the growing numbers of mainland Chinese construction engineers and workers involved in aid projects down there. Apparently, the girls are brought in as student enrolled in the scam English schools.

Preetam Rai
5 Jul 2004

The Chinese are enterprising, we can say that for sure.

andrea
5 Jul 2004

am I the only one who was struck by the fact that she was soliciting in front of the library?

Jeff Trull
6 Jul 2004

‘We have to ask ourselves why this is happening. And that is because there is a demand from our men.’

From this one could argue that the low birthrate in SG is due to women not putting out for their men.

Anonymous
6 Jul 2004

Why is the Chinese Government or its emabssies seemingly not doing anything about this.

Robert Tan
8 Aug 2004

If there is indeed competition for jobs that led to this, it is imperative that one supports only socially desirable companies, as well as moral individuals and not reagard talents or economic contribution as the criteria.