More than 5,000 foreign sex workers caught in Singapore: minister

AFP
22nd Jan 2008

SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore arrested more than 5,000 foreign prostitutes last year but it is unrealistic to expect vice to be eliminated, the Home Affairs Minister has told parliament.

Wong Kan Seng was responding to a question from an MP about efforts to curb "rampant gambling and prostitution" in Singapore's red-light Geylang district. >>>> More