Word: thien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital of French colonialism in Indo-China, Saigon nurtured some of Asia's fanciest fleshpots. Among them: an elegant bordello called the Dai La Thien (Paradise), with 300 silken-clad girls who entertained in mirrored cubicles; the Grand Monde gambling establishment, which earned enough...
Next came the brothels, but with somewhat less success. As police entered the Dai La Thien and the Pare aux Buffles (Stockyard), a lower-class emporium with a mere 200 population, scores of girls scrambled to safety over back walls. In some other places, indignant Foreign Legion and Vietnamese troops stood off the cops with rifles, and opposition from the military generally was so strong that Diem later exempted field brothels from...
...simply vanished-back to their families, to nearby Cambodia, or to emergency havens provided by rich customers (who paid the madams up to 10,000 piasters for the privilege). But the back of the racket nevertheless was broken. Last week Diem's police began stripping the Dai La Thien of its mirrors and nude murals, to convert it into a school for ex-prostitutes, teaching them such trades as sewing and nursing. To discourage girls from reverting to their old trade, police announced that customers caught patronizing them would be jailed until their wives applied for their release...