(BBC News - 11 October 2013 - Prostitution is illegal in China, but the BBC has uncovered evidence of organised prostitution at independently run spas located inside a number of well known, Western-brand hotels, as John Sudworth reports for Newsnight.) China can call itself satisfied because arms have been laid down and brute force has been abandoned. Thanks to corrupt local government and military hierarchy as accomplices, Tibet is in fact held in check more and more. Poverty, drugs, prostitution, alcohol and an increase in the flow of money are the new methods with which the government in Beijing is keeping under control, indirectly, a country which can hardly be recognized any more as being the heart of Buddhism. (More) ...