S'pore cracks down on foreign sex workers

S'pore cracks down on foreign sex workers

SINGAPORE: More than 100 foreign women on Monday faced deportation and charges for immigration and vice offenses after police raided a downtown nightclub complex here over the weekend.

The women, from Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mongolia, China and the Philippines, have been investigated for entering the country illegally or overstaying and are believed to be sex workers.

Police said the operation at Orchard Towers, a nondescript commercial building in the shopping belt which turns boisterous at night, was "part of our ongoing enforcement operations against immigration and vice offenses".

Orchard Towers, known among some expatriates as the "Four Floors of Whores", houses nightclubs like the Pink Pussycat and Crazy Horse and is frequented by tourists and sailors. --AFP