American Businessmen in Hong Kong falling victim to date-rape drug

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"...It was in Hong Kong, in the pulsating red-light district of Wan Chai. Garcia, a Singapore-based executive for a luxury sports brand, had gone out for Friday-night cocktails with colleagues. "The next thing I knew, it was 2 a.m. on Sunday, and I was lying on my bed, butt-naked," he recalls. "My cell phone, wallet, and $3000 Omega watch were gone." So was all memory of the previous 24 hours...

...Police on the island metropolis say 44 Western businessmen have reported similar date-rape druggings by prostitutes in Wan Chai in the past four years. The real number of victims is higher, they believe, because few men report the crime if they were cheating on their wives or girlfriends at the time. An advisory committee for the U.S. State Department deemed the trend serious enough to issue a warning about it in its 2008 Hong Kong travel report...

...Juli says she'd never report one of her fellow hookers to the police if she found out they were using date-rape drugs to rob customers. "I don't have any pity," she states flatly. "Of course it's bad news if a guy dies or loses his marriage because his wife finds out, but nobody forces them to come to Wan Chai."

She snaps open her Nokia and checks for calls from clients before having her last uncompromising word: "We've always had to protect ourselves from men. Maybe now it's their turn to start protecting themselves from us."