China Rescues 11 Vietnamese From Prostitution

BEIJING — State media say police in southern China have rescued 11 Vietnamese women who were abducted and forced into prostitution in a border province and are returning them home.

State-run China News Service said Saturday that police in Guangxi province investigated the case in response to a request by Vietnamese police and located the women in Nanning city.

It says the victims were confined to a spa in the city and forced to engage in prostitution, but one woman managed to notify her family in Vietnam.

China News says police arrested one suspect.

Despite repeated police crackdowns, there remains a thriving market for foreign prostitutes in China, especially in border provinces and big cities.

Comments

[Aysha Nasser]

11:44 PM on 06/25/2012

okay, and what about the other millions of girls being trafficked?

[pinkibus]

11:39 PM on 06/25/2012

Prostitution thrives in every country in the world. Men use it and finace it and write the laws which men do not enforce. If women were not treated like possesions by all religions and were able to earn a living like men, then prostitution would cease to exist. However, that will not happen. Men see it as a necessity like public toilets and until women are actually equals to men they will be the soft underbelly of crime that no country wants to deal with. One has only to consider the Republicans attitude towards womens bodies. Nobody considers legislating what men have to do with their bodies.

[Shimmanni Park]

04:12 PM on 06/24/2012

China's Red Flag is fluttering in the name of a small modicum of justice and human rights, but I hope and the rest of the many others will also hope that they'll not commit big crimes of greedy extortion and distortion. The Chinese government and its people are advised to stop tormenting Tibet and its people and also stop distorting the ancient history as regards the borders and the activities of the neighboring nations, especially those of the ancient Korean borders and recorders. China in utter haste is calling anything theirs. They are just like mob gangsters. Abominable, indeed.

[s002wjh]

11:02 AM on 06/25/2012

lol. by ancient korean border, you mean korean occput all the machinuria since ming dynasty lol

[Shimmanni Park]

05:25 PM on 06/26/2012

You're right. Thank you.

[pinkibus]

11:47 PM on 06/25/2012

Shimani it is a fact that when the dalai Lama was "chosen" Tibetans lived in a feudal state. There were a handful of wealthy landowners, the lamaseries and the masses who were serfs and slaves. It is fashionable to blame the Chinese for ending this horror story. However, one has to note the Dalai Lama lives in luxury, flies in private jets and has yet to have his sponsors donate money to educate the now free tibetans. You can be the first to send money to tibet's university and help the Tibetans to free themselves of a religion which praises young people who set fire to themselves. I know they think they will be reborn to a better life but belief is belief and facts are facts. And it would really help if the Dalai Lama made peace with his rivals in India. Too much time and money is spent on feuding and too little time spent by the lamas on improving lives of the poor and ignorant.

[Shimmanni Park]

05:28 PM on 06/26/2012

I learn it a hard way. Thank you.

[Marcin A Mazurek]

12:50 PM on 06/24/2012

Good Guy China did something without other countries doing their whole "Calling the Kettle Black" bit

[milehibroncoguy]

11:58 AM on 06/24/2012

11 down, 11 million to go

[Peter Bury]

09:48 AM on 06/24/2012

Oh, for a minute I thought the women had been rescued from American-owned sweat shops in Saipan where Chinese women were forced into prostitution and forced abortions..

[l78lancer]

05:13 AM on 06/24/2012

You mean they think there are lower forms of slavery and abuse than that to which the Chinese people are subjected? Now if only China could be as attentive to their own human rights violations.

[AcaciaJules]

04:17 AM on 06/24/2012

And? I know for a fact, that poor women who are sold FROM China into slavery are considered by China to be traitors, and should they ever try to return, will be arrested and imprisoned. Making it impossible for these girls who DO escape form the captors to ever return, but also impossible to obtain VISAs, particularly in the USA.

[s002wjh]

11:03 AM on 06/25/2012

and you know this how? if they were forced, then they will send back to home just like this article said

[AcaciaJules]

02:57 AM on 06/26/2012

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/target_8/Sex-smuggled-woman-fears-snakeheadsICE

[Havana Thinks]

02:49 AM on 06/24/2012

After they freed them from prostitution, I hope they did not send them to be factory slaves.

[LangstonA]

02:17 AM on 06/24/2012

Wait, why is there a market in the sex industry for Asian women from other countries? China does not have enough women right there in China?

[NoNameDude]

01:28 PM on 06/24/2012

Because the most neighboring countries of China are poorer than China, including Vietnam.

[moonlightesq]

01:49 AM on 06/25/2012

Proportionately, there are more young men than there are young women in China due to the one-child policy and most preferred a boy than a girl. So poor young men in China have difficulty in finding a mate.

[ycplum]

04:48 PM on 06/25/2012

Or "relief".

[Christine Mcinerney]

01:54 AM on 06/24/2012

Effects of 1 child law takes hold!

[pinkibus]

08:54 AM on 06/30/2012

Christine why blame prostitution on the one child policy. It existed long before China had thought of the one child policy. It existed in ancient Greece and in Persia and in Mesopotamia and it exists and flourishes in America. Grow up. Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. If you want to see it in technicolor go to Amsterdam and see women marketed in windows.

[mike0]

09:20 PM on 06/23/2012

Is evil red? Is evil afraid of red? or is evil blind to the color of red? So many mysteries in this world and so little time.