KL wary of Thai prostitutes

Sat, 18 Aug 2001, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

BANGKOK (AFP): Malaysian authorities concerned about a huge
influx of Thai prostitutes during next month's Southeast Asian
Games have asked Thai police to screen women crossing the border,
a report said on Friday.

A senior immigration official told The Nation newspaper that
Malaysia was afraid visitors to its capital Kuala Lumpur would
get the wrong impression if the city was packed with sex workers
during the September 8-17 Games.

Police Colonel Surin Palare from the Sadao border checkpoint
said Thailand had already blacklisted some 200 women who were
deported from Malaysia on prostitution charges.

Surin said the crackdown for the Games would also help
authorities dismantle multinational gangs which traffic women
around the region.

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