Stephen Versalko duped ASB Bank customers into parting with $18mby writing dodgy statements that didn't even carry the bank's logo.

The "Kuta cowboys" who offer friendship to tourists face an uncertain future, thanks to an uproar provoked by a warts-and-all documentary.

A school chairman calls for Waitakere City to step in after learning Rodney has a bylaw stopping a brothel opening near a school.

The owner of a brothel opposite a school says people should be more worried about children watching violent TV than his business.

A west Auckland intermediate school is outraged it can do nothing about a brothel which has opened across the road.

A bid to set up a North Shore version of a Brazilian "love motel" has struck trouble after neighbouring businesses withdrew offers to hire out their carparking spaces on busy nights.

The prostitute given $2.4 million by fraudulent banker Stephen Versalko is far from the high end of the escort business.

The wife of the $18 million ASB fraudster has spoken of her pain as other family lash out at the big-spending criminal.

If it wasn't for Bernie Madoff, Stephen Versalko could still be stealing millions.

A bilingual sex information leaflet is being used to recruit international students and young Chinese women into the sex industry.

A cash-strapped Kiwi student is selling her virginity to the highest online bidder.

A Nevada brothel is seeking men with what its advertisement describes as a "good work ethic" and a "willingness to please", to join the ranks of the world's oldest profession and become America's first fully legal male prostitutes.