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[Franco_Barsei]

The institutional failures behind Singapore's latest COVID outbreak

By Andy Wong

Singapore is currently in the midst of its largest domestic COVID surge, with 192 cases directly linked to an outbreak centered around the country's karaoke lounges, known as KTVs.

Most of these KTVs are not innocent family-friendly affairs: Like another outbreak in Taiwan earlier this year, they are fronts for illegal brothels run by organized crime cartels.


But this latest outbreak goes deeper than just the evident public health crisis. It has exposed the pernicious role of organized vice enterprises in Singapore, and the institutional failure of the country's much-vaunted law enforcement to clamp down on them.

It is an open secret that despite a reputation for being hard on crime and moral policing, KTV-fronted illegal brothels employing freelance hostesses, or sex workers, have been operating in Singapore for decades.

Run behind the scenes by the same organized crime groups, these illegal brothels have become a normalized, even integral, part of many business dealings -- particularly among local and mainland Chinese business communities -- as well as serving as money laundering fronts for the criminal enterprises bankrolling their operations.

The KTVs are not just playgrounds for the rich. They draw regular patrons from all segments of society, including uniformed military leaders and civil servants alike. Numbering in the hundreds before the pandemic, such establishments -- and the foreign women employed there -- were tolerated by the authorities in addition to Singapore's "official" red-light district of Geylang.

After closing down Geylang at the beginning of the pandemic, authorities did the same for KTVs. Then, without explanation, KTVs were allowed to reopen under the pretense of pivoting toward becoming "bistros" after August 2020. But the officially tolerated Geylang district, where government control and oversight is overt, remains closed.

Singapore authorities have now belatedly increased punitive raids on bistro KTVs, arrested some illegal sex workers and imposed a blanket shutdown on all such pivoted businesses. These measures have been lambasted as too little, too late by a public now suffering under yet another round of lockdown measures, including renewed bans on dining in and group gathering sizes reduced to two.

Questions are also being asked as to who signed off on the conversion of known KTV fronts into so-called bistros, something they were never designed to function as.

Who allowed such shocking lapses of oversight of such businesses, and why were complaints from family-friendly, legal KTVs about the resurgence of illegal KTV brothels ignored? So far, Singapore's government, with its no-blame culture track record and unbridled ability to blame the public for any spike in COVID cases, has not been forthcoming when it comes to answers.

Most foreign sex workers in Singapore are employed illegally after entering the country on short-term visitor or student visas, despite multiple efforts over the years to clamp down on such abuses. How such individuals manage to enter and stay in Singapore despite the dearth of international travel and tight border controls during the pandemic is an institutional failure that bodes ill for the country's efforts to reopen in a controlled fashion and somehow balance international connectivity with safeguarding against new COVID variants.

Some of the sex workers linked with the latest KTV outbreak entered Singapore via the Familial Ties Lane, or FTL, which opened in October last year, claiming either business or intimate ties with Singaporean boyfriends to gain entry. After questions were asked about the FTL's existence in parliament in February, the category of boyfriend/girlfriend was abruptly removed from the FTL process a month later without explanation.

But hundreds of people had already entered the country and disappeared into the underground vice industry, many of them plying their trades in KTV brothels until the latest outbreak. This has rightly angered not just Singapore's local population, but the sizable expatriate community working and living here.

Ever since the start of the pandemic in April 2020, Singapore's population has been heavily restricted from any sort of overseas travel and subjected to inconvenient quarantine periods upon return. Locals are not able to travel freely, nor easily apply for foreign relatives to visit Singapore. Expatriates have been forced to choose between keeping their jobs in Singapore or visiting family in their home countries without concrete reassurances of being allowed back in.

Meanwhile, foreign sex workers faking familial ties and other travel purposes have been allowed to enter by a government known for its overzealous pandemic controls. As usual, no one has provided any answers. Nor has the Ministry of Home Affairs, the sole overseer of vice policing and the city-state's border controls, taken responsibility for this institutional failure and the evident border policy loophole.

The latest COVID outbreak not only necessitates a plan for Singapore to lift domestic restrictions and reestablish international connectivity, but demands that its leaders take responsibility for the institutional failures that caused it. Watching disingenuous ministers feign retrospective shock and surprise at how the latest outbreak occurred no longer cuts it.

Decades of institutional failures in dealing with the organized crime cartels running illegal KTV brothels have not only seriously damaged public health, but have significantly set back Singapore's public relations campaign to demonstrate that it has the pandemic under control.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-...COVID-outbreak

This must be embarrassing to the nth degree for principals in the home ministry.

No prizes for guessing how they will vent their anger next.

[ddae44]

Originally Posted by Franco_Barsei

The institutional failures behind Singapore's latest COVID outbreak

By Andy Wong

Singapore is currently in the midst of its largest domestic COVID surge, with 192 cases directly linked to an outbreak centered around the country's karaoke lounges, known as KTVs.

Most of these KTVs are not innocent family-friendly affairs: Like another outbreak in Taiwan earlier this year, they are fronts for illegal brothels run by organized crime cartels.


But this latest outbreak goes deeper than just the evident public health crisis. It has exposed the pernicious role of organized vice enterprises in Singapore, and the institutional failure of the country's much-vaunted law enforcement to clamp down on them.

It is an open secret that despite a reputation for being hard on crime and moral policing, KTV-fronted illegal brothels employing freelance hostesses, or sex workers, have been operating in Singapore for decades.

Run behind the scenes by the same organized crime groups, these illegal brothels have become a normalized, even integral, part of many business dealings -- particularly among local and mainland Chinese business communities -- as well as serving as money laundering fronts for the criminal enterprises bankrolling their operations.

The KTVs are not just playgrounds for the rich. They draw regular patrons from all segments of society, including uniformed military leaders and civil servants alike. Numbering in the hundreds before the pandemic, such establishments -- and the foreign women employed there -- were tolerated by the authorities in addition to Singapore's "official" red-light district of Geylang.

After closing down Geylang at the beginning of the pandemic, authorities did the same for KTVs. Then, without explanation, KTVs were allowed to reopen under the pretense of pivoting toward becoming "bistros" after August 2020. But the officially tolerated Geylang district, where government control and oversight is overt, remains closed.

Singapore authorities have now belatedly increased punitive raids on bistro KTVs, arrested some illegal sex workers and imposed a blanket shutdown on all such pivoted businesses. These measures have been lambasted as too little, too late by a public now suffering under yet another round of lockdown measures, including renewed bans on dining in and group gathering sizes reduced to two.

Questions are also being asked as to who signed off on the conversion of known KTV fronts into so-called bistros, something they were never designed to function as.

Who allowed such shocking lapses of oversight of such businesses, and why were complaints from family-friendly, legal KTVs about the resurgence of illegal KTV brothels ignored? So far, Singapore's government, with its no-blame culture track record and unbridled ability to blame the public for any spike in COVID cases, has not been forthcoming when it comes to answers.

Most foreign sex workers in Singapore are employed illegally after entering the country on short-term visitor or student visas, despite multiple efforts over the years to clamp down on such abuses. How such individuals manage to enter and stay in Singapore despite the dearth of international travel and tight border controls during the pandemic is an institutional failure that bodes ill for the country's efforts to reopen in a controlled fashion and somehow balance international connectivity with safeguarding against new COVID variants.

Some of the sex workers linked with the latest KTV outbreak entered Singapore via the Familial Ties Lane, or FTL, which opened in October last year, claiming either business or intimate ties with Singaporean boyfriends to gain entry. After questions were asked about the FTL's existence in parliament in February, the category of boyfriend/girlfriend was abruptly removed from the FTL process a month later without explanation.

But hundreds of people had already entered the country and disappeared into the underground vice industry, many of them plying their trades in KTV brothels until the latest outbreak. This has rightly angered not just Singapore's local population, but the sizable expatriate community working and living here.

Ever since the start of the pandemic in April 2020, Singapore's population has been heavily restricted from any sort of overseas travel and subjected to inconvenient quarantine periods upon return. Locals are not able to travel freely, nor easily apply for foreign relatives to visit Singapore. Expatriates have been forced to choose between keeping their jobs in Singapore or visiting family in their home countries without concrete reassurances of being allowed back in.

Meanwhile, foreign sex workers faking familial ties and other travel purposes have been allowed to enter by a government known for its overzealous pandemic controls. As usual, no one has provided any answers. Nor has the Ministry of Home Affairs, the sole overseer of vice policing and the city-state's border controls, taken responsibility for this institutional failure and the evident border policy loophole.

The latest COVID outbreak not only necessitates a plan for Singapore to lift domestic restrictions and reestablish international connectivity, but demands that its leaders take responsibility for the institutional failures that caused it. Watching disingenuous ministers feign retrospective shock and surprise at how the latest outbreak occurred no longer cuts it.

Decades of institutional failures in dealing with the organized crime cartels running illegal KTV brothels have not only seriously damaged public health, but have significantly set back Singapore's public relations campaign to demonstrate that it has the pandemic under control.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-...COVID-outbreak

This must be embarrassing to the nth degree for principals in the home ministry.

No prizes for guessing how they will vent their anger next.

I agree. Now the reputation of our MOHA and SPF is at stake, they have to show a report card. Open season now.

[JerkOff]

I don't particularly agree with the article. it's really the standard SG reaction "shit happened, point fingers" reaction.

I personally feel, police and vice are on the same circle, sort of the yin-yang, if you may.

If there's no vice, where got need for police? if no police, the vice would overrun.

i feel that government is aware of such practices, but given the problems it had generated in the past (not much serious crimes i believe), the government had decided to keep these vices on a leash and allow them to operate.

if a covid case never happened, things wouldn't have been exposed, and everything would be fine..

SHIT happened lor..

[mickeymouse1710]

Originally Posted by ddae44

I agree. Now the reputation of our MOHA and SPF is at stake, they have to show a report card. Open season now.

Totally agreed bro.
Now really dangerous season. Was at my regular ML
Spa in Yishun Cxxx Pxxg there.
Massage halfway have not even autoroam her soft neh neh and her wet downstair. Suddenly got a team of law
Enforcers charge inside the shop already doing spot check already.
Luckily I have my mask on and I think none of the other
MLs are letting their customers autoram them or jerking off their customers.
Looks like raid and spot checks are going to be common
Even for those spa and shops already really have to
Lie low already.
My regular MLs were telling me now the shops everytime kena check for this and that. Check whether u got wear masks check whether got do proper safe entry check in etc etc
Walao eh like that which bros still want to go spas and shops.
Sigh online not many new ones a lot of landmines and police raid.
Spa and shops also kena frequent checks
Looks like this is really unprecendented time.
Stay safe bro

[dracolizardz]

Review is correct.
Massage is non existent.
Looks is above average, and has a bit of tummy fat.
But a pretty good conversationalist.

Originally Posted by mickeymouse1710

https://$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.org/detail.html?id=1100

Tks for all the encouragement Bro.
The ML is also advertise in other websites besides
SLG. One of the adverts is listed above.
Basically my comments are massage is cmi and
Is just piano.
But her looks are quite ok and her boobs are nice and soft about C or D cup.
For additional top up can have additional
Services.
But for the price its a no go for me.
And for that I got zap until oblivion. Where is the
Spirit of sharing and avoiding landmines man.
Is this thread dominated by OKTs already.

Anyway like what the reviews in SLG or other websites mentioned its quite difficult to book her.
Suspect she kena bao already or some white knights
Not happy that other bros can up her also.

Really appreciate bros for uping my points because
I kena zap I cannot post freely and I cannot even PM
directly.
Bros who are interested can pm me and I can share
More details and other MLs whom I tried and more
Value for bucks.

Peace out bro
And to all the motherfxxxxers OKTs and white knights
Fuck you!!!

[LoveGru]

Originally Posted by JerkOff

I don't particularly agree with the article. it's really the standard SG reaction "shit happened, point fingers" reaction.

I personally feel, police and vice are on the same circle, sort of the yin-yang, if you may.

If there's no vice, where got need for police? if no police, the vice would overrun.

if a covid case never happened, things wouldn't have been exposed, and everything would be fine..

SHIT happened lor..

Really good insight from u bro.

[JerkOff]

Originally Posted by LoveGru

Really good insight from u bro.

not really lah... just cannot stand those who always point fingers when shit happens...

[qwertykanz]

Originally Posted by JerkOff

I don't particularly agree with the article. it's really the standard SG reaction "shit happened, point fingers" reaction.

I personally feel, police and vice are on the same circle, sort of the yin-yang, if you may.

If there's no vice, where got need for police? if no police, the vice would overrun.

i feel that government is aware of such practices, but given the problems it had generated in the past (not much serious crimes i believe), the government had decided to keep these vices on a leash and allow them to operate.

if a covid case never happened, things wouldn't have been exposed, and everything would be fine..

SHIT happened lor..

Good insight bro and similar thoughts too. After a few weeks or months, people may just forget and the hooha fades. Still, tough times all round when fingers are pointing..

[JoLzEkYaL]

Anyone has any good vanilla ML still available can PM me?

[Rio2020]

Anyone has any good vanilla ML still available can PM me?
Do share with me too.TIA.

[Peaceful123]

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...ested-15280274

[xiaoli74]

Originally Posted by JerkOff

I don't particularly agree with the article. it's really the standard SG reaction "shit happened, point fingers" reaction.

I personally feel, police and vice are on the same circle, sort of the yin-yang, if you may.

If there's no vice, where got need for police? if no police, the vice would overrun.

i feel that government is aware of such practices, but given the problems it had generated in the past (not much serious crimes i believe), the government had decided to keep these vices on a leash and allow them to operate.

if a covid case never happened, things wouldn't have been exposed, and everything would be fine..

SHIT happened lor..

“故水至清则无鱼” the author probably don’t know this Chinese idiom. When waters are so clean, no fishes will survive . When such vices are generally harmless , why eliminate them all together ?! Once we decided to build 2 casinos here, we need to back it up by entertainments - which include 色情场所！ it comes in a package . It’s multimillion industry MP + Freelancers- even though some monies exported - it still benefits the financial services etc . Our gahman are smarter than we think.

[JerkOff]

our government very smart, especially when it comes to earning money... confirm. hahaha

[JasonJG]

Originally Posted by xiaoli74

“故水至清则无鱼” the author probably don’t know this Chinese idiom. When waters are so clean, no fishes will survive . When such vices are generally harmless , why eliminate them all together ?! Once we decided to build 2 casinos here, we need to back it up by entertainments - which include 色情场所！ it comes in a package . It’s multimillion industry MP + Freelancers- even though some monies exported - it still benefits the financial services etc . Our gahman are smarter than we think.

Our govt is like a grandparent who wants to be called "gong gong" or "mah mah" but don't want the noise and rowdiness caused by the grandchildren.

[Onsjohn]

Originally Posted by Peaceful123

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...ested-15280274

It shows that it really depends on whether the government wants to clamp down hard on the vice activities.

I don't think we will be surprised if the government takes pre-emptive or reactive initiatives to clamp down on the other non-viet MLs just to appease the general public.

Those MLs who still have public listings are quite vulnerable as further info about them can be obtained easily through telcos, etc.

Stay safe, bros. 小心驶得万年船。