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A new type of sex club in the Gangnam area is heating up debate on sexual freedom in open spaces. A theme club which opened in a Gangnam street last month is gaining popularity by allowing members to openly have sex on the premises, said police officials yesterday.

The entrance is strictly restricted to couples who have received in advance their adult age certification through the club’s website.

Under the club’s motto that “all sexual taboos are taboos,” visitors freely have sexual relationships with their partners or involve themselves in partner swapping or group sex, according to officials. The rest of the crowd is free to watch any other couple.

The voyeuristic club is largely supported by its visitors, among whom many left messages on the website bulletin board, saying that they wished to revisit the place in the future.

Despite the social shock, however, investigators have feeble legal grounds to regulate such controversial clubs.

“The club managers claimed that many legal experts confirmed the club to be legal, as the sexual relationships are not based on prostitution but on the voluntary actions of the visitors,” said a police official.

They are also planning to publish advertisements in the media this month and have finished the draft versions, according to officials.

“Considering the negative effects that it may have on the general sense of morals, we feel the need to restrict the club,” said a police official. “However, as the club is not involved in any specific illegal actions such as drug trafficking or prostitution, we have difficulties in applying any legal restrictions.”

Criminal law experts also differ in their opinion concerning this unprecedented type of business.

“If all parties have a full prior understanding on the sexual activities within the club, they may only be punished for excessive physical exposure, which is only a minor offense,” said Professor Cho Kuk of the Seoul National University Law School.

Cho, nevertheless, pointed out the need to add a new clause to the present criminal law that may regulate the club owner who has provided for the space for such open sexual relationships.

Though some other experts said that open sexual activities in the club hall may be legally restricted, most of them agreed that the business type narrowly escaped the control range of the present law.

The controversial club’s website is presently cut off due to a traffic overload, but is under no legal restrictions, according to police officials.

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Cambodian youth gets 3 mths

Judge Tan said a short spell in jail would teach Chhuon (left) not to break the law again. — ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN

CAMBODIAN CHHUON Ratana was sent here by his father to study management in 2006 but he ended up outraging the modesty of two women last May.

The 20-year-old was jailed for three months on Thursday.

District Judge Jill Tan said that granting a conditional discharge to the 20-year-old would not be appropriate as Chhuon had been belligerent and had committed the second and more serious offence in spite of being confronted by his first victim.

Noting that each woman had received $8,000 in compensation, Judge Tan said a short spell in jail would teach Chhuon not to break the law again.

His lawyer Chia Boon Teck had told the court that whatever punishment Chhuon received here, his elders in Cambodia would mete out punishment according to traditional Cambodian practices, which in this case, would include Ratana having to become a monk for six months to a year.

As such, it would be inexpedient to jail Chhuon, he said.

But Judge Tan felt that a Singapore court should punish Chhuon for his loutish behaviour.

He had pleaded guilty last month to squeezing the breasts of two women at the Arena club in Clarke Quay at 3.30am on May 11 last year.

On his way to the toilet, he approached his first victim and asked for her name while holding her shoulders. When she struggled, he grabbed her breasts. The victim sought help from her friends at the club who confronted Ratana.

He initially denied it before saying: ‘I did it. So what?’. He then slipped his hand under the brassiere of a second woman and squeezed her breast.

The club bouncers soon appeared but Ratana was not cowed, telling them: ‘So what? I am a foreigner.’

Mr Chia said Chhuon’s father was counting heavily on Ratana to take over the family’s business and the father had lost much face following his panic-stricken appeal to the Cambodian authorities for help.

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WHAT HAPPEN IF IT WAS A SINGAPOREAN THAT DID IT?
CANNING + YEARS IN THE JAIL, MANY MANY PAST CASES ALREADY

This is my personal account of the first 20 years of the PAP Government, years which defined its principles. It was a party of the people, dedicated to improving their lives.

Very well said, Mr Lim Boon Heng!

You put it all in perspective!

All supporters of PAP should remember what Mr. Lim said.

Stop living in the past, you assholes!

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Once upon a time, then Chief Justice Yong Pung How - in an appeal that he presided - officially ruled that the starting sentence for all molest cases with no aggravating factors, shall be 9 months jail and 3 stroke of the canes

Chief Justice Yong further elaborated that by “no aggravating factors”, he meant the simple touching of non extra-private areas such as thigh, shoulder, back etc.

He made it clear that breasts and genitals are extra-private parts and thus the molest of these areas are to be regarded as aggravating factors which warrants a sentence of GREATER than 9 months jail and GREATER than 3 strokes of the cane.

Moreover, when restraint and struggles are involved, these are aggravating factors automatically, even if breasts are not involved, and thus again warrants a sentence of GREATER than 9 months jail and GREATER than 3 strokes of the cane.

Chief Justice Yong stated clearly that unless there are some mitigating factors, no sentence should be lowered than this guideline. He also made it explicit that being educationally subnormal is not even a mitigating factor!

A ruling by the Chief Justice is binding on lower courts.

So, since his ruling, literally hundreds of Singaporean men have been jailed for 9 months and caned 3 times, for the touching of one woman’s thigh, with no restraining of the victim. Even mentally-challenged low IQ educationally-subnormal youth are not spared from the caning! Some even have to appeal to the President to override the ruling of the judges!

But that’s for Singaporeans. For foreigners, another different rule applies and they know about it too.

Cambodian youth gets 3 mths
By Khushwant Singh June 18, 2009
CAMBODIAN CHHUON Ratana was sent here by his father to study management in 2006 but he ended up outraging the modesty of two women last May. The 20-year-old was jailed for three months on Thursday. District Judge Jill Tan…

He had pleaded guilty last month to squeezing the breasts of two women at the Arena club in Clarke Quay at 3.30am on May 11 last year. On his way to the toilet, he approached his first victim and asked for her name while holding her shoulders. When she struggled, he grabbed her breasts. The victim sought help from her friends at the club who confronted Ratana.

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A DOZEN years ago, the International Advisory Panel of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) held its inaugural meeting at the Gates Building at Stanford University in Palo Alto, the heart of the US Silicon Valley which was, and still is, the heart of the cyberworld.

Then Prime Minister Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad chaired the meeting and the members of the panel represented the who’s who of the electronic world then.

Sun Microsystems boss Scott McNeally was there. So was Acer founder Stan Shih and Sony’s Nobuyuki Idei. Also present were venture capitalist James Barksdale and then Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeifer and then Cisco Systems CEO (now chairman) John Chambers.

The only one missing was Microsoft head honcho Bill Gates. But Dr Mahathir had met him a year earlier and was to meet him again the day following the meeting.

Everyone was abuzz with Malaysia’s idea of a dedicated area just for the development of the cyberworld – which was then just known as multimedia. All of them wanted a piece of the MSC then.

It was a proud moment to be a Malaysian that week and I was fortunate to be there to witness the whole thing. Dr Mahathir was leading a huge business delegation to the United States to promote the MSC, then thought of by the world as a groundbreaking idea.

The concept of a triumvirate – the people, business and the Government – working in concert to make the MSC a reality sounded so attractive.

The Government also drafted laws to protect the MSC so that it would be a truly free environment that would allow ideas to bloom.

That was then. Along came the Asian financial crisis and the sacking of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (his black eye and the sordid trial put paid to the pride that was felt all those years ago). We had since been recovering slowly.

Then came last week. I met two Europeans at a golf game – one a Swiss whom I shall call Johann, and the other a French whom I will refer to as Pierre.

The two men are chief executives of multi-national companies with manufacturing plants in Malaysia and the region.

While Johann had arrived in the country less than a month ago, Pierre is a 10-year veteran who has seen Malaysia at its best and worst.

The two noticed me typing away on my Blackberry phone and inquired if I found the device useful. Their question set me off on how my life has changed with the BB (Blackberry for the uninitiated).

From there, our conversation turned to the Internet or more accurately, the lack of it.

The two men spent about 30 minutes bemoaning the lack of speed, and how their lives had been badly affected by the slow speed of Internet services in Malaysia.

“My kids made a video to wish their grandfather happy birthday. It was not a very big file – less than 120 megabytes,” said Pierre.

“It took me more than two hours to upload the file and send it to my brother in France so he can show our father.

“In France, my brother took just 10 minutes to download the same file.”

Johann’s crestfallen face spoke volumes when it came to his turn to tell his sad tale of Malaysia’s Internet services.

“I am so used to our Swiss speed. I only get 30 megabits per second when downloading. Malaysia’s Internet connection is just too slow,” he said.

At this juncture, my patriotism kicked in and I tried to justify the situation to these two Europeans, but after a while I found myself agreeing with everything they said.

There was nothing good I could say about Malaysian cyber connections.

The best I could come out with was to ask them to be patient as the Government had initiated the National Broadband Project and that in a few years the whole of the Klang Valley would be wired up.

Pierre and Johann both gave me that “you got to be kidding” look. The Swiss pointed out that all towns in his home country had put in fibre optics years ago.

“They just dug and dug and wired everyone up. What are you all waiting for?” he asked.

He was “very impressed” when he first came to Malaysia 10 years ago.

“You all then had ADSL lines when we in France were still using dial-ups,” he recalled.

“But what happened? We are now surfing at real broadband speed and not the ‘best service possible’ practice as you have here in Malaysia.

“Johann, if you get 50% of the promised speed in Malaysia, consider yourself lucky.”

The conversation went downhill from there on and all three of us took swipes at the various Internet service providers in Malaysia.

Whatever national pride I had for our cyber venture was shattered in my conversation with Johann and Pierre.

When I got home, I tested my 1-megabit-per-second broadband speed. The result was depressing – the download speed was 406 kilobits per second and upload was 307 kilobits per second. Pierre was right – I could not even get 50% of the speed promised.

On Tuesday, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili will be a guest on The Star Online Live Chat programme.

He can be sure that although I will be away in Sweden attending a global conference by Ericsson on the future of the communication world, I will be e-mailing him some questions and giving him my opinion of our tortoise-speed Internet connections.

KUANTAN: A trip to the movies on June 5 ended in a 12-day nightmare of rape and confinement for a 19-year-old girl.

After the movie ended, she told her friends she was going to her sister’s home in Taman Indera Sempurna. A man came up to her and offered her a ride. He said he knew the sister and lived in the same housing estate.

On the way, he stopped at his brother’s house. He invited her into the house, also in Taman Indera Sempurna, and when she went in, he locked the door and threatened to harm her if she didn’t obey him.

Police said she was imprisoned in the house, and the man and six others repeatedly took turns to rape her until she escaped on Tuesday about 7am.

She was able to flee as the men were asleep, and had forgotten to lock the front door.
She boarded a bus to Pekan and went home to her mother. The mother lodged a police report on Tuesday. The mother thought her daughter was with her sister and so did not worry about her absence.

Police then raided the rented house and picked up four men aged 19 to 36. Police said they are still looking for the remaining three men.

A source said a medical check-up at Tengku Ampuan Afzan hospital found injuries that confirmed the girl’s story.