Website offering change of sex partners is big hit with Singaporeans

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Prostitutes have thanked Labour Deputy leader Harriet Harman after her appeal for a ban on a website advertising their services fuelled their demand further. Harman had recently urged California Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger to ban the California-based website Punter Net, which allows prostitutes to be rated by men who have had sex with them, calling it "degrading" and "exploitative".

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The average British adult has indirectly slept with 2.8 million people, according to a new research. To reach the conclusion, an online calculator, that allows people to work out how many indirect sexual partners they have had based on the "six degrees of separation" theory, used data collected from more than 6,000 British adults.

September 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The controversial US private security company, Blackwater, is reportedly running a covert recruitment drive through its website in Pakistan. The company's website, www.BlackwaterUSA.com, appears to be just like any other internet site, but when navigated deeper the real propaganda of the company is revealed.

September 16th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The 1Malaysia website will include content in the Tamil language, as it celebrates its first anniversary today. According to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak what made the anniversary even more special was that it coincides with Malaysia Day, which commemorates the day Sabah and Sarawak became part of the nation 46 years ago.

August 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The New South Wales State Government has asked people to reveal the number of their sexual partners in a campaign against sexually transmitted diseases. Almost 17,000 people in NSW tested positive for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and HIV in 2008.

August 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The web site of an American department store was altered, briefly offering a grill for "human cooking". The Sears website was made to list a grill that could "cook babies" and be used to roast body parts, under the category of "human cooking > Grills to Cook Babies and More > Body Part Roaster." Company officials said it was the doing of a mischievous customer and, the goof, first reported by TMZ.com, when discovered, was quickly changed.

August 12th, 2009 DUBAI - Dubai has unveiled a new advanced and user-friendly website for the emirate's business community to improve public access to business-related information and procedures, the WAM news agency has reported. The new website, developed by the Department of Economic Development (DED), is the first of many steps planned for the near future to improve the business community's interaction with the department, officials said.

August 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's White House has launched a website http//www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck to win public support for the administration's health reform package as also support for the other initiatives it is taking. According to Politico, the site incorporates lessons learned from http://fightthesmears.com, the Obama campaign's "Learn The Truth About Barack Obama" site, which covered everything from the birth certificate to William Ayers to "A recent email smear falsely claims Michelle ordered room service, but she never even stayed at the hotel." What's new in the site is that it has built-in tools allowing users to email every page and video to their friends and families, and is linked to social networks with preloaded messages to encourage folks to share the content.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - Computer hackers have invaded MI5's official website, it emerged last night. According to the Daily Express, the gang rigged the site so the identity of visitors could be stolen and viruses downloaded on to their machines.

July 27th, 2009 LONDON - MI6 bosses might be experts at protecting Britain from terrorist threats, but that has not prevented the agency's website from being full of spellings errors. he bosses at MI6 came under fire recently when it was revealed that their website was full of grammatical errors.

July 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Single Brit women want to date builders rather than bankers, a dating website has found. The change in the trend, uncovered by dating website mysinglefriend.com, has been found to be the result of the current economic climate.

July 16th, 2009 SYDNEY - An Indian hacker broke into the Royal Australian Air Force website and defaced it with a threatening message aimed at the Australian Government, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The Department of Defence confirmed that the hack took place between Monday and Tuesday, forcing it to pull the entire RAAF website offline and replace it with a page explaining that there had been "technical difficulties".

July 15th, 2009 BERLIN - A brothel in Berlin has found new way to fight against the climate change and recession by offering discounts to clients who arrive by bicycle or public transport. The Maison d'Envie said on its website the unique "environmental discount" comes in a bid to reward visitors' "green commitment" amid the difficult financial situation.

July 13th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Pictures of a couple having sex at a park in Singapore are said to be making their rounds on the Internet. According to the Sin Chew Daily, though no details have been given about the nine pictures, the couple are said to be Singaporeans, reports the Star Online.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - China's procuratorates have opened a unitary 24-hour hotline for informants on the eve of the 11th publicity week for seeking information from the public, which has been sponsored by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP). The hotline will start on Monday, the first day of the weeklong campaign to increase the awareness about ways and importance of giving tips to prosecutors to expose job-related crimes and corruption among government officials.