mordrir Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2005/04/01/national/index.php?news=national_16914640.html LEGISLATION PROPOSAL: Bill targets fronts for prostitution Published on April 01, 2005 Health Ministry seeks to shut down spas, massage parlours offering sex-for-cash No more sex-for-cash masquerading as a ?full-body massage? or ?Turkish bath? ? not if the Public Health Ministry has its way. Ministry officials are drafting a bill to regulate spa and massage businesses in an attempt to eliminate prostitution disguised as rubdowns and soap baths. Medical Services Support Department director-general Rewat Wisarutavej said his department would be pushing for the bill?s enactment so that medical registration officials would be empowered to check whether certain spas and message parlours are being operated as brothels. He added that he believed that more than half of the country?s spas and brothels actually are. Currently, the Medical Registration Division needs the cooperation of law enforcement officials to officially inspect spas and massage parlours because they are licensed under the Interior Ministry?s Entertainment Places Act, Rewat explained. Health officials can issue certificates to spa and massage businesses, but retain no authority to check later if an establishment is being operated according to its licence. Rewat said it routinely happened that when health officials sought police permission to inspect establishments, officers were so slow to comply that owners of the spas and message parlours had plenty of time to conceal signs of prostitution. He said that, if enacted, the new bill would empower the Medical Registration Division to supervise spas and massage places in the same way it already does clinics and hospitals. Rewat added that he expected the bill to be tabled in Parliament by the end of the year. In another development, Rewat said he had assigned his deputy, Dr Boonchai Somboonsuk, to investigate allegations made by Chat Thai Party MP Janista Liewchalermwong that medical registration officials had demanded Bt3 million from the owner of Bio Clinic in exchange for renewing its cancelled licence. Dr Phaisarn Hengsawang?s had his clinic shut down for using a new type of liquid silicone implants for cosmetic surgery enhancements without Food and Drug Administration approval. Rewat said he did not think there was any substance to the allegations of a bribe demand and noted that the clinic was shut down for legitimate reasons. Duangkamol Sajirawatthanakul The Nation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post your comment to this story here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli13 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 april fool again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lusty Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 Massage parlours a front for prostitution!well I'd have never have believed it! Seems like Taksin is trying to get one over on Chewit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 I have no doubt that legislating against prostitution will work wonders. Hoo Boy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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