Beijing police to hit beauty salons, gambling dens

Beijing police to hit beauty salons, gambling dens
BEIJING (Sept 7, 2007): Beijing has launched a month-long crackdown on
unlicensed beauty parlours and other common fronts for prostitution and gambling
to sanitise the city ahead of a key Communist Party meeting next month.
Unregistered karaoke bars and bathhouses would also be targeted in a blitz
across the city launched by 11 government departments, Beijing News reported
today.

"One third of the prostitutes detained by police in Beijing this year have come
from these illegal beauty parlours," the paper quoted an unnamed police official
as saying.

"These salons make up 50% of all the prostitution dens in Beijing."

Police have also instructed China's growing ranks of property owners not to rent
out their homes to people who "stay out late" and have "irregular lifestyles",
the China Daily said in a separate report.

The advice comes a week after Shanghai housing authorities drafted rules urging
landlords not to rent rooms to unmarried couples and gays.

China has launched a string of campaigns aimed at stamping out crime and
socially destabilising elements in the months leading up to the 17th party
congress, a five-yearly meeting where key leaders are chosen and policy
direction fixed.

Other campaigns have included stripping highways of billboard advertisements for
luxury goods that might fuel discontent among Beijing's poor, and cleansing
local airwaves of "vulgar" and unpatriotic content. - Reuters


Updated: 07:11PM Fri, 07 Sep 2007
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