Monday, March 17, 2008
coinky dink?
Since I've slammed them many times, to be fair, I should note that today's "The Standard" commits a fair number of pages to coverage of the current events in Tibet, though most of what's there is cobbled together from agency reports. Oddly, their editorial makes no mention of any of this. The editorial is on the potential impact of the Olympics on inflation in China. And they are the only daily newspaper I know of willing to sell full page ads on their front page.
I'm just wondering if there is any connection between Bjork's on-stage pro-Tibet outburst in Shanghai a couple of weeks back and the start of these demonstrations. Probably not, but this whole thing started pretty soon thereafter. I suspect Patti Smith won't be doing any concerts there in the near future.
One of the related stories in The Stan is of a Hong Kong tour group that has decided not to cancel a planned trip to Llhasa at the end of the month since everyone who has booked the tour still wants to go. Let's see - the city is shut down, foreigners are not allowed to leave their hotels, rioters are targeting Chinese businesses (and presumably Chinese people) - perfect time to go?
Also, today marks what I believe is the debut of "The Standard Page 3 Girl" - in this case a photo of one of the two prostitutes murdered over the weekend, taken from the web site advertising her services, in sexy lingerie but with face pixillated out, with a caption of "see page 4 for details" (and a larger version of the picture). In case you haven't read it elsewhere, three prostitutes were murdered over the weekend, two in Tai Po, one in Yuen Long, both found strangled with shower hoses, leading police and the press to wonder if there might be a serial killer at large and if Edison Chen will star in the film version. Both women were in their 30s, one was married and had an eight year old son and was doing this work to support her family.
I have reproduced that picture below (snagged from The Stan's web site) because I find it fascinating that the "newspaper" did not obscure the name of the web site on which she advertised her services! A two year old with a pirate copy of Photoshop could have blanked it out in half a second. Since this picture appears twice in the newspaper itself and once on the web site, were they paid to run this ad?
Hang Seng finished down 1,152.50 today. Wonder what tomorrow will bring?
I'm just wondering if there is any connection between Bjork's on-stage pro-Tibet outburst in Shanghai a couple of weeks back and the start of these demonstrations. Probably not, but this whole thing started pretty soon thereafter. I suspect Patti Smith won't be doing any concerts there in the near future.
One of the related stories in The Stan is of a Hong Kong tour group that has decided not to cancel a planned trip to Llhasa at the end of the month since everyone who has booked the tour still wants to go. Let's see - the city is shut down, foreigners are not allowed to leave their hotels, rioters are targeting Chinese businesses (and presumably Chinese people) - perfect time to go?
Also, today marks what I believe is the debut of "The Standard Page 3 Girl" - in this case a photo of one of the two prostitutes murdered over the weekend, taken from the web site advertising her services, in sexy lingerie but with face pixillated out, with a caption of "see page 4 for details" (and a larger version of the picture). In case you haven't read it elsewhere, three prostitutes were murdered over the weekend, two in Tai Po, one in Yuen Long, both found strangled with shower hoses, leading police and the press to wonder if there might be a serial killer at large and if Edison Chen will star in the film version. Both women were in their 30s, one was married and had an eight year old son and was doing this work to support her family.
I have reproduced that picture below (snagged from The Stan's web site) because I find it fascinating that the "newspaper" did not obscure the name of the web site on which she advertised her services! A two year old with a pirate copy of Photoshop could have blanked it out in half a second. Since this picture appears twice in the newspaper itself and once on the web site, were they paid to run this ad?
Hang Seng finished down 1,152.50 today. Wonder what tomorrow will bring?
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This website is quite notorious as it gives all sorts of details. The working girls stay in their tiny flats in normal domestic buildings and take bookings over the phone. For each girl there are detailed instructions including photos of how to find the apartment, including the secret door codes, etc, quite openly, without even having to make a booking...
It's like a "hey, psycho, come murder me" website.
It's like a "hey, psycho, come murder me" website.
p.s. a friend told me about. It's cheap, and so is he.
Look up "sex trafficking" in Google and there's a context sensitive ad for this website.
Look up "sex trafficking" in Google and there's a context sensitive ad for this website.
But actually conventional wisdom has it that most of the so-called one woman brothels in Hong Kong are run by triads.
Basically the triads rent apartments in cheap buildings, cut them up into even smaller flats, put mainland women into them, make them look like independent operators (being a hooker is legal in HK as long as the woman is legally allowed to work here; being a pimp is illegal under any circumstance) and then run the ads on these web sites.
Basically the triads rent apartments in cheap buildings, cut them up into even smaller flats, put mainland women into them, make them look like independent operators (being a hooker is legal in HK as long as the woman is legally allowed to work here; being a pimp is illegal under any circumstance) and then run the ads on these web sites.
This is definitely NOT a one-woman web-site - there are are thousands of addresses. I heard through someone (a Westerner) who did the photography of the girls for the website.
Not sure if this was the real Triads, but certainly some organised crime group. Yes usually mainland girls.
Not sure if this was the real Triads, but certainly some organised crime group. Yes usually mainland girls.
Yes, E, it's a very famous web site, I know that, advertising what are ostensibly one woman brothels, and some of them are really independent women, and some are fronts for triads. The owners of the web site themselves were busted several years ago for living off the earnings of prostitution for being stupid enough to host their server in HK.
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