1.   A number of monks have been accused of hiring prostitutes, indulging in telephone sex and selling amphetamines.

2.   Officially, the two men, Zhang Lin and Wei Quanbao, were charged with hiring prostitutes and evading border police, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

3.   They were charged not just with evading border police but also with hiring prostitutes.

4.   He acknowledged hiring prostitutes, saying his wife had lost interest in sex, but said they were still a family-centered couple.

5.   The four dissidents sentenced for hiring prostitutes since late October included two exiled democracy campaigners who slipped back into China and two members of a would-be opposition political party.