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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-singapore-sex/red-lights-out-singapores-sex-industry-shuts-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E0TI

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Shortly after midnight on Friday, a young Asian sex worker dressed in a baggy cotton dress and slippers stepped out of a brothel in Singapore’s deserted red light district and rolled a wheelie bin to the side of the street.

 
 
A view of Orchard Towers after it shut down shortly before midnight, as part of measures to curb the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Singapore March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Two hours earlier, Singapore’s vibrant Geylang neighborhood was having a more typical night - clusters of men negotiating with chain-smoking pimps on the street as women in tight dresses tapped at phones inside neon-lit houses alongside.

Singapore closed bars, nightclubs and cinemas from Friday until the end of April in an effort to contain a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

Although the announcement made no mention of the government-sanctioned brothels in Geylang, pimps and sex workers said they were passed the message that they too would need to close shop.

“I got nice girls for you. Might be your last chance for a while,” a grizzled pimp mumbled in the hours before midnight outside one of the dozens of brothels dotted along Geylang’s streets, which are monitored by police security cameras.

Singapore announced massive stimulus measures on Thursday to soften the economic shock from the coronavirus outbreak, including generous cash handouts for locals.

 

But for the hundreds of low-income Asian migrant sex workers and nightclub entertainers in the wealthy city-state, there is huge uncertainty about their future.

“I don’t know how we’ll survive,” said one freelance sex worker, sitting on a plastic chair across the street from a brothel decorated with Chinese red lanterns, a nod to customers about the nationality of the women working inside.

“We don’t get looked after like people in other jobs.”

Government departments and police did not respond to requests for comment on the closure of brothels.

Singapore, known for its strict laws, does not explicitly criminalize prostitution although aspects of the industry are illegal, including soliciting, pimping and running a brothel.

That has not stopped the sex trade operating in the Asian financial hub, from rendezvous in high-end hotel bars to the infamous Orchard Towers, a drab 1970s commercial building in Singapore’s prime shopping district.

 

Orchard Towers is now closed with police tape around its entrances.

“What am I gonna do now?” said one young woman in a sequined dress as men shuffled out of the tower’s drinking holes, including Naughty Girl Nightclub and the Downunder Bar, on Thursday night.

“I guess we’ll work something out, honey. People still got to have fun.”

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28 minutes ago, Standing Birdy said:

But for the hundreds of low-income Asian migrant sex workers and nightclub entertainers in the wealthy city-state, there is huge uncertainty about their future.

 

this statement is really KG max... the fact is ATB siambus vietbus are earning more than their clients...

reflects the sterotypes in the  narrow minds of the leftist ang moh mainstream media

they should spend time to research whores of Sinkieland...

I believe most working ATB, siambu, vietbus earn more than the KG reporter writing this.

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9 minutes ago, HarrisY said:

Chiu 40+ yo old unker liao still let a 20+yo xdd bully chiu... no wonder chiu dun cut it in life...

 

6 minutes ago, The_King said:

No need to beat you. I let tapeworm beat you

 

 

tapeworm only need 1 out of 100 times

 

actually tapeworms really can infect the brain.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/index.html

 

Cysticercosis is a parasitic tissue infection caused by larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium. These larval cysts infect brain, muscle, or other tissue, and are a major cause of adult onset seizures in most low-income countries. A person gets cysticercosis by swallowing eggs found in the feces of a person who has an intestinal tapeworm.

 

so kgk xdd, do be careful when u jiak atbpgds, ok?????

 

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16 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

 

actually tapeworms really can infect the brain.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/cysticercosis/index.html

 

Cysticercosis is a parasitic tissue infection caused by larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium. These larval cysts infect brain, muscle, or other tissue, and are a major cause of adult onset seizures in most low-income countries. A person gets cysticercosis by swallowing eggs found in the feces of a person who has an intestinal tapeworm.

 

so kgk xdd, do be careful when u jiak atbpgds, ok?????

 

No wonder he always eat pgd, must be the tapeworm hijack his brain and make him to eat

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