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6-day Geylang hunt for KTV singers
Lounge manager may lose $10,000 security deposit if 2 runaway Chinese women can't be found
By Gan Ling Kai
For the past two weeks he has been getting his friends to pound the streets of Geylang, going door-to-door to look for two women.
The general manager of a KTV lounge in Orchard Road had sent his friends to search for two of his employees who had disappeared just days after they arrived in Singapore.
If he fails to find them, the thousands of dollars he has put up with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) as security deposit would be forfeited.
Mr Zhuang, who is in his 60s, told The New Paper that the two women from Hubei, China, had applied to be club singers here.
But he alleged that crooning was not on their minds, and that they began hatching a Houdini escape hours after they touched down at Changi Airport.
The women arrived here on June 7 at about 2am, he said.
When they reported for work at Mr Zhuang's KTV lounge on June 8 at about 8pm, they immediately asked Mr Long whether the club provided sauna services, he said.
"But I told them they were here to sing, not for anything else. In China, there are many spas that provide sex services," he added.
The next day, the women told Mr Long they were sick. A few days later, Mr Long and Mr Zhuang lost contact with the women, they said.
That's when Mr Long discovered that the women had moved out of the room in a Balestier condominium where he had arranged for them to live at (with two other female occupants) within hours of their arrival here.
