Asian students caught in sex trade
The Daily Telegraph
Janet Fife-Yeomans
September 1, 2010
THE immigration department is investigating brothels that employ young Asian women in breach of their student visas.
The women earn up to $10,000 a week as sex workers while brothel websites openly advertise “new fresh girls” arriving regularly from countries including South Korea, Thailand, China and Japan.
One Asian woman under investigation has not turned up to a single lesson at the English course she signed up to attend.
Instead she has been working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week at a group of four city brothels – one just a couple of minutes walk from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s Sydney offices in Elizabeth St. A fellow prostitute who wants to learn English has been attending courses in her place and using her name. read more..