By Ngan Anh  February 26, 2018 | 04:19 pm GMT+7 Detainees stand in their cell at the Taiwan Foreigners Detention Centre in Sanxia. Photo by Reuters/Nicky Loh/File photo The women will be deported when the investigation concludes. Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency has arrested 10 Vietnamese migrant workers for working as prostitutes in the Greater Taipei area, Taiwan News quoted Chiu Yao-yung, deputy head of the agency, as saying. Following a tip-off in January, the agency launched a raid and arrested the 10 Vietnamese women, along with three Taiwanese nationals. Of the Vietnamese women, all aged from 20-30, eight had given up their official jobs in Taiwan, while one had immigrated to Taiwan illegally and the other had married a Taiwanese citizen. The Vietnamese women will be deported after the investigation concludes, said Taiwan News.
Immigration officers said the women were able to earn ‘a lot of money’ from the service. Five Vietnamese women were detained Monday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's capital, as local immigration officials busted an international prostitution operation. The Star Online reported that 28 women, including those from China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Thailand and Turkey, were apprehended during the raid at a three-star hotel. Officials also held five local men, who acted as supervisors and middle men, and seized cash worth around $20,000, suspected to be proceeds from the services provided by the women, immigration officials were quoted as saying. Initial…... [read more]
Officials said the women entered Indonesia as tourists but then worked illegally as sex workers. Indonesian authorities have arrested 10 women suspected of doing sex work illegally for several weeks in Batam City, Riau Islands. Eight of the 10 suspects are Vietnamese while the other two are Chinese. They are between 20 and 30 years old, according to Jakarta Post. Batam Immigration Office Chief Teguh Prayitno was quoted as saying that the arrests were made in two separate raids on a boarding house and a club on Wednesday. “They entered Batam via Jakarta. They have been operating in Batam for…... [read more]
At least one ring using marriages of convenience to bring Vietnamese women to Taiwan for illegal purposes has gone underground in Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Nien found out recently thanks to its readers. The illusion of a better life abroad lured some Vietnamese women to the ring, which promised to "take care of all the papers" for free to help them go to Taiwan via fake marriages with Taiwanese men. In exchange, the women were told that they would work at half-pay for about four years before their "contract" ended. The promised monthly salary, however, still sounded attractive compared…... [read more]
French police swooped on suspected radical Islamists in pre-dawn raids for the second time in less than a week Wednesday, arresting 10 people, a source close to the investigation said. The raids were carried out in the southern port city of Marseille as well as Roubaix near the Belgian border, and in several other locations in the country's south and southwest, the source said. They came as 13 suspected Islamists arrested last week were charged with "criminal conspiracy connected to a terrorist enterprise" and illegal possession and transportation of weapons. The 13, some of whom are members of a suspected…... [read more]
A Can Tho City court Tuesday handed down jail terms to three people for duping seven women into going to Malaysia to work as sex workers. Tat Cam Linh, 34, got 13 years, Mai Thi Be Thuy, 39, got 10 years and Luu Tuan Khanh, 29, got five years, all for human trafficking. According to the indictment, Linh married a Malaysian man in 2009 and migrated to his country, where she met an unidentified Malaysian man and a Vietnamese woman who own a bar and a massage parlor. The couple offered Linh up to VND6 million (US$270) for bringing Vietnamese…... [read more]
