Vietnam moves on trafficking

– More than 3 000 people in Vietnam, most of them women and children, were trafficked between 2012 and 2017, many into China, the ministry of public security said yesterday, as parliament sought to tighten laws to tackle the problem.

Human traffickers took people from markets and schools and used Facebook and a Vietnamese messaging app to befriend victims before selling them to karaoke bars, restaurants or smuggling them abroad, the ministry said. Seventy-five percent of cases involved people being smuggled across the border into China. – Reuters

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