Beijing's Olympic clean-up forces brothels to close and migrant workers to return home. Massage parlours doubling as brothels are a common sight in Beijing, but not for very much longer. They are being forced to close as part of the clean-up process in the run up to the Summer Olympic Games in August. The Beijing authorities have so far cleared beggars, street peddlers, stray cats and dogs off the streets in the lead up to the Games. Media reports say the city's police are preparing to carry out mass ID checks on the capital's million-strong migrant worker population, sending home those without valid permissions to live and work in the city. Migrant workers have suffered badly as a result of Beijing's new makeover, neither profiting from the economic boom nor benefiting from the city's development. But the low wages they earn in Beijing are still preferable to salaries in their own local provinces. For Shu Ai Fang, a prostitute who works in a massage parlour, her only glimpse of...