Viet sex room in the park
Taman Sri Bahagia, which houses hundreds of foreign workers, has been labelled "Little Vietnam" for a good reason.
The number of Vietnamese there, combined with those of other nationalities, easily overwhelms the locals.
But what is worrying the locals are what they claimed to be the embarrassing sexual activities.
A resident, who declined to be identified, said the Vietnamese were the dominant community.
A dozen terrace houses have been converted into hostels housing between 25 and 50 workers from Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia.
When The Malay Mail visited the housing estate on Thursday, petite and pretty Vietnamese women were seen on the streets and by the windows of their houses.
They are legally employed at factories in Tampoi and buses arrive several times a day to ferry them to and from work.
However, residents claimed these women have attracted a constant stream of local and foreign men to the area to court them.
Residents said that besides amorous couples sitting outside their gates till the early morning, there were those who had sex behind the bushes and trees.
Another irate resident said that his nine-year-old son told him that he saw a man being "breast-fed" by a woman two weeks ago.
A 38-year-old businessman said that his son picked up a used condom and asked if it was a balloon.
He has since switched rooms with his son so that the son would not be able to witness the amorous couples in action.
The Malay Mail team who surveyed the stretch of land behind Jalan Sri Bahagia 16 on Thursday found several used condoms and old newspapers and wooden planks used by the lovers as bedding during their love-making.
The businessman said that he had spoken to the supervisors of the factories nearby to keep their workers in check, but his pleas have obviously gone unheeded.
By Neville Spykerman - The Malay Mail / The New Straits Times Press - February 28, 2004.
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