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A plainclothes policeman catches a woman during a police crackdown on prostitution in Quanzhou, Fujian province, October 29, 2011. China should remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which often lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on May 14, 2013. The abuses include torture, beatings, physical assaults, fines and arbitrary detentions of up to two years, as well as a failure to investigate crimes against sex workers by clients, bosses and state agents, according to the report. Prostitution is not permitted under Chinese law, although the industry has boomed since the country launched economic reforms in 1978. REUTERS/Stringer

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VIENNA | Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:18pm EDT

VIENNA (Reuters) - Developments at a damaged nuclear reactor in Japan are "very serious," the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said Wednesday as he prepared to head to the country to assess the situation.

Yukiya Amano said he hoped to fly to Japan Thursday for a one-day trip and needed more information from authorities there.

"The situation ... is very serious," Amano, a Japanese national, told a news conference, saying damage to the core of three units at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor had been confirmed.

(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl and Sylvia Westall, editing by Tim Pearce)
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