25
August 2006 (Friday, seond
Lunar July 2)
A
War between Hookers and Residents
During
the recent decade in China, the once
vanished business, the prostitution, is
booming again. Some have attached the
service to a legitimate commercial
outlet, such as hair salon and bath
parlour, and others simply conduct work
on secret street trading. As the number
of peasant workers grows, so does the
number of sex vendors.
After
years of watching their hutong
to be taken by hookers, the residents of
the Qinghe Township in Beijing’s Haidian
District finally decided to fight back. A
few days ago they posed leaflets on the
walls of the alley, which read, "Sex
sellers, leave this hutong please".
But
the residents had underestimated the
determination of the sex retailers to
defend their established marketplace. In
the late afternoon, the saleswomen
bounced back in number and with a
vengeance. They tore all the leaflets
into pieces and vigorously promoted their
service products. "50 yuan only,
great bargain" one announced to a
peasant labour. "Mine 30 yuan, you
won’t find a better deal like
this," another competed. So again,
the locals could only watch how each
hookers were hooked, and left in pairs
with their matches. When police arrived,
all they saw was a messy ground reduced
by torn leaflets.
A
leaflet and a Beijing journalist
pretending to be a patron to investigate
the incident
Sex
Topics in China
Women
Leaders in China
China’s
Minister of Human Resource Development
said on Thursday that with the similar
qualification, a woman instead of a male
candidate should be the one to be
promoted into leadership position.
By
the end of 2005, of all governance and
management positions in China, nearly 40
percent are taken by women, with total
number of women decision-makers reaching
15 million.
A
Swimming Champion Drowned
After
an opening ceremony for China’s Ninth
Open Water Swimming Championship on
Monday, the competition began. But when
2000m Relay for Men aged over 60
finished, the organisers have a trouble
to declare the final outcome, because one
of the swimmers, the 2002 champion in the
5000m, did not land within expected time
frame. And he never did. His body was
discovered and brought to the shore the
next day.
26
August 2006 (Saturday, seond
Lunar July 3)
Daoist
Festival
The Second Daoist Festival kicked
off on Thursday night at Mt Qingcheng
with grand performance of Taichi and
Daoist music. Located 65 kilometres west
of the Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu, the mountain is
one of the top ten sacred Daoist sites,
named Great Celestial Grotto of Nine-Room
for Precious Immortality. It is also one
of the birthplaces of Daoism, at where
the famous Celestial Master Zhang Daoling
of Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)
formulated the Orthodox Oneness Daoist
lineage. The festival will run for five
straight days until next Tuesday, August
29, the eve of the second Chinese
Valentine’s Day.
Entrance of Mt.
Qingcheng and Taichi performence
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