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Chilling news from AFP:

MORE than half of Beijing's prostitutes do not use condoms despite sexual transmission having replaced drug use as the most common infection route for HIV, state media said on Tuesday.

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A few years ago, locally-based writer and publisher Graham Earnshaw began releasing a series of out-of-print books about China pre-1949 and, more specifically, the interactions between foreigners and locals during that period (a copy of Carl Crow's Foreign Devil's in the Flowery Kingdom which made to Shanghaiist was particularly excellent). These books were extensions of an earlier web-based project, the Tales of Old China website, which has a remarkably extensive library and picture database cataloging the rich and fascinating colonial history of China.

A Shanghainese woman by the name of Wang Min has been charged with operating brothels that fronted as bars in the wealthier parts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and bringing unemployed women, all past 40 years of age, from Chongqing to work at the bars. She was sentenced to 11 years in jail and her accomplice six years. The judgement was meted out in China after the pair were extradited back home earlier this year. [Source]