Two of three Vietnamese girls sold to China nearly four years ago have escaped and returned home, exposing the traffickers who were apprehended by police this week. Police in Nghe An Province said on Tuesday that they had arrested locals Ven Thi Mao, 29, and Cut Thi Thong, 29, and would investigate their alleged trafficking of children under 16 years old. Mao is in detention while Thong has been granted bail, but barred from leaving her place of residence, given she is raising an infant under three years old. According to initial investigations, Mao and Thong worked together between 2014 and 2015 to deliver three local teenage girls to China, where they were sold for up to VND100 million (US$4,400) each. Their victims were L.T.H. (born in 1999), C.T.S. (born in 2000), and C.T.C. (born in 2001), all of whom were residents of Bao Nam Commune in Ky Son District. The girls were bought by Chinese men who made them their wives. Two of the victims recently managed to break free from their ‘husbands’ and returned home to expose the crimes of Mao and Thong, leading to their arrests. According to the United Nations, nearly 21 million people are lured into forced labor every year worldwide and 1.2 million children are trafficked. A third of trafficked women and children are from Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, reports of 1,128 trafficking cases were made in 2016, but only around half of them were rescued. Like us on Facebook or follow us on… [Read full story]
A human-smuggling syndicate that allegedly brought Vietnamese illegal immigrants into Hong Kong has been broken up after China and local law enforcers arrested 42 people, police said yesterday. But the gang was just the tip of the iceberg as investigations indicated several other rackets that smuggle non-Chinese illegal immigrants such as Pakistanis and Indians from their home countries into the city were still in operation, the Post has learned. “Intelligence has revealed other syndicates have lain low to evade arrest as mainland and Hong Kong authorities have enhanced enforcement action,” a source with knowledge of the investigation said. The force’s…... [read more]
Images of the three suspects involved in women trafficking. (Photo: vov.vn) HCM City (VNA) - Police in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh and Ho Chi Minh Cityhave arrested two women and a man for allegedly trafficking women to China.Nguyen Thi Kieu Oanh,35, in HCM City; Nguyen Thanh Tung, 25, in Đong Nai Province; and Dinh Thi Thu,33, in Tay Ninh Province were caught red-handed on December 25.The first two suspectswere caught while trying to complete procedures to take three women from HCMCity to Hanoi at HCM City’s International Tan Son Nhat Airport. Threewomen were rescued.They admittedthat after arriving at the capital city, they…... [read more]
Why do a large number of Vietnamese teen fans dream about meeting South Korean showbiz stars, listen to their songs all the time, hang their pictures on their walls, follow their stories and news, and attend their concerts no matter how much it costs? >> Fans go wild, faint out of excitement at Soundfest After several teen fangirls of South Korea’s Bing Bang boy group fainted during the 9-hour long Soundfest concert held at Phu Tho stadium on April 14, Tuoi Tre held a roundtable discussion on fan culture among local youths. The discussion began with an idea from graduate…... [read more]
The men, all aged 26-32, were arrested near Qinzhou Port in China where they had held the victim, Pham Van Phuong, in a container, the police said December 31.According to investigators, on November 27 Phuong and a friend were having dinner at a restaurant in Quang Ninh’s Mong Cai town when the trio forced them into Phuong’s car and drove to China.They released Phuong’s friend and left the car near the border after finding out he was Chinese.Phuong was released on December 2.The three Chinese told the police they had taken VND30 million (US$1,355) from Phuong and held him for…... [read more]
The world’s biggest retail group Wal-Mart and Vietnamese seafood exporters have recently met to discuss ways to sell Vietnamese seafood in the US system, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). Representatives of the two sides met on the sideline of the Boston seafood tradeshow in mid-March in the presence of Vietnamese seafood processors and international institutions for animal preservation, said the General Secretary of VASEP Nguyen Huu Dung. VASEP presented its partner with the potential and outstanding advantages of Vietnamese grown tra, basa and shrimp. Vietnam’s catfish ranks second among freshwater fish in…... [read more]
