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Beauty salons exploiting regulation loophole to run vice operations

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Orchard Towers, a building once famous for its nightclubs and pubs, now has more beauty salons than watering holes.
But it is all cosmetic. Inside the units - each only about 9 sq m big - the so-called therapists offer sex and little else.
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