Archives > March 2007
HIV Infections in Asia Could More than Double in 5 Years
Mainichi Daily News - Japan, March 31, 2007
Officials warned that the number of people in Asia infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS could more than double to 20 million over the next five years without a better government response and more funding.
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It’s Still Not Absolutely Fair For the Fair Sex At the Workplace
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, March 30, 2007
Sexual harassment in the work place is a common enough occurrence. But seldom is anything done to address this grave issue.
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IAS Officer or Commoner, Wife is Wife, Rules Court
Khaleej Times - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 30, 2007
No wife, however highly-placed in life, can refuse sexual relationship, bear children or cook for her husband if she is hale and hearty, India’s Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark judgment.
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Witness Tells Truth Commission of Rape, Beatings by a Pro-Indonesian Militia in East Timor
China Post - Taipei, Taiwan, March 29, 2007
Esmeralda dos Santos sobbed as she told a truth commission on Thursday how she was dragged from a church and repeatedly raped by a pro-Indonesian militiaman during a frenzy of violence following East Timor's vote for independence in 1999.
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Ashley, Akshay & Dr. Digamber Singh Launches EC Program in Rajasthan
India Infoline.com - Mumbay, India, March 28, 2007
Ashley Judd, Hollywood star and Board Member of the non-profit organization PSI was joined by Dr Digamber Singh, Hon’ble Minister of Health Government of Rajasthan and Bollywood star Akshay Kumar to announce the launch of the Emergency Contraception Program in Rajasthan.
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30000 Korean Women Sell Sex in Japan
Korea Times - Seoul, South Korea, March 28, 2007
According to a law-maker, about 30,000 Korean women are working as prostitutes in Japan.
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Feature: Measures to Track Sex Offenders Ineffective, Critics Say
Taipei Times - Taipei, Taiwan, March 26, 2007
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) last November implemented regulations requiring sexual assault parolees to wear radio frequency identification devices (RFID), which will help police track the offenders' movements.
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Revelations by Accused in Noida Killings Shock Nation
Hindu - Chennai, India, March 24, 2007
The Central Bureau of Investigation's revelation that Surender Koli, main accused in the Nithari serial killings, suffers from necrophilia (erotic attraction or urge to make sexual contact with corpses) and necrophagia (feeding on dead bodies) has left the entire nation shocked.
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Interview: Gay Indian Seeks Refuge at Cambridge
PinkNews.co.uk - UK, March 23, 2007
Homosexuality in conservative Indian society is forced into hiding by not only the government, but also family, neighbours and the police.
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Can't Perform? See the Doc, Hubby Dear
Electric New Paper - Singapore, March 23, 2007
According to Dr Chin Chong Min 'Much has been said about ED being a couple's problem, but until now, no research in real-life settings have been conducted to show how ED really affects a woman's sexual health and whether she will benefit from her husband's ED treatment’.
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Cambodia Winning the Fight Against AIDS
Voice of America - USA, March 22, 2007
Cambodia has become an example of how to fight the disease. AIDS experts say the lesson from Cambodia is that if the political will is there from the top, the disease can be contained, even in the poorest nations.
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RM14 Mln of Fake Sexual Stimulants Seized
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 22, 2007
The Health Ministry seized 1.4 million capsules of fake sexual stimulants worth RM14 million from a container in Penang recently, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said Wednesday night.
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Sexual Harassment Cases: Low Figures Too Good to be True
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia, March 21, 2007
Only two per cent of the country’s 11.6 million workers have reported sexual harassment in the workplace to the Human Resources Ministry every year, a number the authorities believe is too good to be true.
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Women Give Thumbs Up to Injectables
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, March 21, 2007
After a doddering start liberally peppered with protests from women’s groups, medical practitioners and social activists, injectable contraceptives have become one of the most popular methods of contraception amongst women. Gynaecologists reveal that women are taking the upper hand in the use of contraception.
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Soon, Law to Save Women from Office Harassment
Times of India - New Delhi, India, March 21, 2007
The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill, 2007, that is in the final stages, is likely to be put before Parliament in the coming session. The Bill will provide redressal even in industries that have so far stayed out of the loop — hospitality, restaurants, NGOs, health services and coaching centres, domestic help, women working in tailoring, or beauty parlours.
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The Transgendered Gather to Discuss Concerns
Hindu - Chennai, India, March 20, 2007
A two-day workshop to provide the transgendered an opportunity to collectively examine their concerns and rights began here on Monday.
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Training Manual to Tackle Sexual Issues Faced by Children with Disabilities
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, March 20, 2007
A training manual to tackle sexual and reproductive health issues for children and teenagers with disabilities is in its final stages of development by the Health Ministry.
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Homosexuality: Coming Out With Pride
Merinews - India, March 20, 2007
Homosexuality is a controversial issue. It never fails to raise eyebrows and is still deemed morally wrong in many parts of the world. Every gay man considers how their family will react once they disclose their sexual orientation.
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The Facts of Life
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, March 19, 2007
Mention ‘sex education for children’ and many people tend to get worked up. Parents get bothered about what exactly is being taught, and conservative elements think this will open the gates to promiscuity.
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Kuwait Becomes Latest 'Hellhole' for Nepali Women
Indian Muslims - San Diego, USA, March 19, 2007
A young Nepali woman who flew in here from Kuwait via New Delhi in a state of severe trauma is now undergoing psychiatric treatment. Disgusted NGO officials here say Kuwait has become the hellhole for Nepali women being illegally trafficked to Gulf countries.
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Shunned by Society
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, March 19, 2007
According to the study, less than a third of the 94 PLHIV surveyed said they were employed. Many had resigned due to discrimination or had been asked to leave their jobs, as a result of having HIV-related illnesses.
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Fighting for Their Rights
Times of India - New Delhi, India, March 18, 2007
Sexual minorities had organised a rally lead by Suraksha on Sunday to protest against the discrimination and violation of their rights by society and state at large.
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Here Comes the Culture Brigade
Bangkok Post - Klong Toey, Thailand, March 18, 2007
A department under the Ministry of Culture, whose mission is to 'protect the nation's culture and values through the process of surveillance,' is on the lookout for everything from inappropriate ringtones to promiscuously worn university uniforms.
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Journey of Possibilities
Hindu - Chennai, India, March 18, 2007
Over 150 Aravanis or transgenders gathered in K.S. Sanjivini Auditorium in Chennai's fêted Voluntary Health Service (VHS) hospital to celebrate the third Aravanigal Dinnam (Transgender Day).
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Indonesia: Gay NGO Worker and Partner Allegedly Sexually Abused
247gay.com - Los Angeles, USA, March 17, 2007
A 32-years-old NGO worker and his same-sex partner were allegedly brutally tortured and sexually abused by the Banda Aceh police while in custody in January, the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has revealed.
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Do Youngsters Need Sex Education? Ask the MP Government
Desicritics.org - Bangalore, India, March 17, 2007
Taboos and bans surrounding sexuality are probably among the worst that you can think of, because they amount to interference and regimentation of the very energy which keeps us alive.
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The Other Side
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, March 16, 2007
The film, Iron Ladies made in the year 2000, went on to win awards and critical acclaim at international film festivals, was based on the true story of a Thai volleyball team comprising gays, transvestites and transsexuals, and talked openly about the gay culture in the country.
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Japanese Too Busy to Have Sex
The Australian - Sydney, Australia, March 16, 2007
The survey of 1400 people, for Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare, indicated that 39.7 per cent of all Japanese couples aged 16 to 49 had not had sex for more than a month, a 5 per cent increase on the results of the same survey two years ago.
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Chennai Hosting Seminar on Female Sexuality
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK, March 15, 2007
A Chennai-based group is hosting a two-day dialogue on women and sexuality in India here from Friday. Academics, artistes and activists will initiate a discussion on the experience, performance, representation and regulation of women's sexuality in the country.
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India Women Rally Against Violence
The News - International - Pakistan
According to official figures, more than 34,000 cases of molestation and nearly 10,000 cases of sexual harassment were reported in 2005. The latest National Family Health Survey said that nationwide 37.2 percent of women ‘experienced violence’ after marriage and attributed it mainly to a lack of education.
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Sex Workers' Rally in Doddaballapur
Hindu - Chennai, India, March 14, 2007
Sex workers of Bangalore Rural district will hold a rally and a public meeting on Wednesday in Doddaballapur in protest against criminalisation of sex work. The rally will be the first big mobilisation of sex workers in a taluk headquarters in the State.
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The New Global Sex Trade
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass, USA, March 13, 2007
These victims of sexual slavery come from some of the most well-known sexually trafficked areas in the world, including Cambodia, Thailand, Latin America, Eastern Europe (countries like Romania, Lithuania, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine), Russia and even Africa.
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Nudity, Beauty and Controversy
Columbo Daily News - Columbo, Sri Lanka, March 12, 2007
The nudity has been the subject of controversy so much so that worshippers of Satan and the cult of Anti Christ has proclaimed that nudity is the concept of God and Anti nudity and knowledge is the concept of Satan.
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Chinese Explore their Sexuality
Toronto Star - Toronto, Canada, March 11, 2007
in China, where pornography is outlawed by the ruling Communist party, the images in the February issue of For Him Magazine are not only highly provocative but perhaps the latest sign that sex and sexuality are infiltrating the mainstream media.
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Indians Feel Thirties Ideal Age for Marriage
Hindustan Times - India, March 11, 2007
As a sign of changing times and priorities, majority of the Indian youth feels thirties is the right age to get married and start a family.
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China Sex Mag: They Read It For the Articles
Asia Times Online - Kowloon, Hong Kong, March 9, 2007
For Him Magazine is a commercial success in China. It sells nearly half a million copies each month, which outstrips most other magazines sold in China.
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Chinese Ban on Internet Cafes Ducks the Issue
Nature.com - London, UK, March 9, 2007
This week the Chinese government announced that it will freeze the opening of any new Internet cafés for a year from July 2007. In a culture where alcohol abuse is rare, drug use carries terrifyingly draconian penalties, sexuality is repressed and pop culture is sanitized, getting kicks online might seem the only option.
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China Teaches Juveniles How to Fend Off Sexual Harassment
People's Daily Online - Beijing, China, march 8, 2007
A public security education guide for primary and middle school students released by the Ministry of Education has made sexual harassment, natural disasters and campus violence part of safety education for minors.
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US Report Says More S.Koreans Seeking Sex Abroad
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2007
The South Korea report said that while antiprostitution and antitrafficking laws passed in 2004 have helped to protect victims of prostitution and punish those engaged in the practice, some organizations are concerned that sex tourism to China and Southeast Asia is becoming more prevalent.
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Male Feminists, Anyone?
Hindustan Times - New Delhi, India, March 7, 2007
Across cultures the traditional model of masculinity governs men. Gender norms constantly control and dictate their lives. Feminism can help men shed layers of false consciousness that masculinity covers them with, just as it does away with the irrationality behind the need for femininity.
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Sex Workers' Meet Ends with Demand for New Identity
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad, India, March 5, 2007
The All India Conference of Entertainment Workers 2007, which kicked off Feb 25, concluded March 3 - the International Sex workers' Day - with the sex workers demanding a specific identification for themselves.
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Let Kids Watch Play About Sex
Electric New Paper - Singapore, March 4, 2007
Play Safe, by The Necessary Stage (TNS), was given an NC(16) rating, which stands for No Children Under 16, due to its emphasis on condom usage. And that meant the play would not reach younger teens. Recent media reports and surveys have however, shown that children under 16 years old are also having sex.
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Of Sex, Books and Burqas
Indian Express - New Delhi, India, March 4, 2007
Dinar Rahayu’s novel ‘Ode to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’ is an explicit story from the start, conjuring scenes of strippers, child rape and sado-masochism, and many parts are unprintable in family publications.
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Sex-Saturated Media Arrives in China
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX, USA, March 3, 2007
in China, where sex is still a taboo subject and pornography is outlawed by the ruling Communist Party, the images are not only highly provocative but perhaps the latest sign that sex and sexuality are infiltrating the mainstream media.
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Chinese-Canadians Ask Ottawa to Denounce Abe's Comments
Canoe.ca - Canada, March 2, 2007
Chinese-Canadian politicians and community leaders are calling on the government to publicly condemn the Japanese prime minister for denying his country's role in the enslavement thousands of Asian women during the Second World War.
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Brands Stray Off the Straight Path
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai, India, March 2, 2007
Buckle up for what is viewed as homosexual behaviour, alternative sexuality, etc in communications. It hardly raises an eyebrow overseas, but could stir some excitement here.
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To Veil or Not to Veil
Washington Post - Washington,DC, USA, March 2, 2007
The contradictory ways that young girls in Indonesia -- the country with the world’s largest Muslim population -- dress is part of an ongoing battle between the religiously conservative forces and the more modern, liberal members of society. There is still no clear-cut winner yet, although the conservatives are clearly making headway.
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Women Slam Japan's Denial of WWII Sex Slavery
GMA news.tv - Quezon City, Philippines, March 2, 2007
Women's rights activists in the Philippines on Friday denounced a comment by Japan's prime minister that there was no evidence Japanese soldiers forced women into sexual slavery during World War II.
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Indian Sex Workers Demand Legal Status
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle, USA, March 2, 2007
Sex workers from across India ended a weeklong meeting Friday with the demand that they be allowed to work legally.
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It's a Longer Wait for Lessons on the Birds and the Bees
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia, March 1, 2007
The story of sex education in schools is still waiting to be told despite years of preparation. And it appears that it will be a while before students get to learn about the birds and the bees.
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China's Dangerous, Booming Beauty Industry
Washington Post - Washington,DC, USA, March 1, 2007
Women in China are racing to get their eyes double-lidded, their waists slimmer, their breasts enlarged in the pursuit of beauty and sexuality with dangerous consequences.
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