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The Beijing police operation is dubbed “Operation 4.11″ and began in April, reasoning that driving out an estimated 200,000 xiaojie (mistresses) would increase the vacancy rate. The result would be a flood of new residences on the market that would decrease property prices.

The idea was recently supported by the Beijing Evening News — considered a mouthpiece for the Communist government — in a May 14 editorial titled Turning point will come when all mistresses are driven out of Beijing.

The editorial argues the crackdown could drive out Beijing’s prostitutes in a mere three months. Lofty aspirations.

A counter editorial in Asia Times however questions the reasoning of driving out prostitutes to correct inflated housing prices.

Prostitution is illegal in China, but the police crackdowns recently launched across the country indicate that the "world's oldest profession" is doing as well as ever. In Beijing, there are reportedly so many xiaojie (mistresses) that state media claim their numbers have driven up housing prices.

After efforts to "physically and spiritually" cleanse Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, prostitution has made a big comeback, so much so that municipal police launched a citywide "strike hard" vice crackdown in April entitled "Operation 4.11".

A growing number of foreigners have been involved in drug trafficking in the country, latest figures from Chinese courts and customs showed.

Local courts in the Chinese capital tried 36 cases of drug trafficking that involved foreigners last year, 12 times the number in 2006, the Beijing Higher People's Court said on Thursday, two days before the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

The drugs trafficked by the foreign defendants were mostly heroin and methamphetamine of high purity, with the drugs trafficked by each foreign suspect weighing an average of more than 1 kg, the court said.

Chinese like copy, so western people normally call Chinese Twitter ( Weibo in Chinese pronunciation ) as Twitter Clone.

QQ Releases a Chinese Twitter Clone

The Chinese Twitter clones are rolling out the software factory doors at a frightening pace. Another new entrant is now trying to get marketshare.

TaoTao is one that has a good chance to make it. It's backers are QQ , the insanely popular messaging network. QQ is currently the number 10 website in the world (according to alexa) and at one point in time, a vast majority of the Chinese net population used QQ as their IM solution. They have millions and millions of users to say the least. If they do a good job of cross marketing they should be able to get almost instant uptake. It will also be interesting on how they integrate with their existing QQ service and mobile phones.

Hilton Hotel has been shutdown by Chongqing Police for providing whores and sex service. According to Chongqing Police, Hilton Hotel's Shareowner have sinister gang support.

Hilton Hotel was found doing this old business twice since Nov. 2009, but didn't change their business model after got the warning from Chongqing Police.

19th Jun. 2010, in a surprise inspection, Chongqing Police found the management level is engaged in prostitution affairs and dealing drugs. So 102 criminal suspects were arrested red-handed in Hilton Hotel.