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News Articles on Trafficking of Vietnamese girls in the Mekong Delta

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News Articles on Trafficking of young Vietnamese girls abroad for sex trafficking and prostitution

Conference says slave trade alive and well in Vietnam
-(Source: ThanhNien News ) Reported by Vu Tho. Date: 12/24/2007
Human trafficking remains a serious problem in Vietnam, with more than 2,200 confirmed victims over the past three years, a Public Security Ministry official said Saturday. more

Six jailed for selling Vietnamese girls to Taiwan, Malaysia
-(Source: ThanhNien News) Reported by Le Nga. Date: 7/27/2007
A Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced Thursday a Vietnamese woman to 12 years in prison and her Taiwanese husband to seven years for selling 126 Vietnamese girls to Taiwan and Malaysia.
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Southern cops bust people trafficking ring
-(Source: ThanhNien News) Reported by Mai Tram. Date: 1/12/2008
Police in the southern city of Can Tho busted a people-smuggling ring that allegedly sent more than 20 young girls from the Mekong Delta to brothels in Malaysia, Cambodia and Singapore. more

Women and children trafficking over border alarming
-(Source: VietnamNet Bridge). Reported by: G. Khang. Date: 12/25/2006
Over the past five years, thousands of women and children have been trafficked over the border for sexual and labour exploitation abroad, according to a report by the border police. more

HCM City trafficking ring busted
-(Source: Viet Nam News). Date: 3/29/2006
HCM City police busted a human trafficking ring on Monday following raids in six districts and at the local airport. more

Deputy PM asks for more focus on human trafficking prevention
-(Source: VNA). Date: 4/8/2006
Discussion should focus on the situation, causes and shortcomings remaining in the fight against the trafficking of women and children with the aim of countering this crime, said Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong at a conference held in Hanoi on Apr. 6. more

Human traffickers sell 260 to Malaysia
-(Source: VietnamNet Bridge). Reported G. Khang. Date: 5/18/2006
Vietnamese police have intercepted a human trafficking ring of 110 people bringing 260 Vietnamese women to Malaysia after a tip-off by one victim. more

Two Malaysians face trafficking charges
-(Source: ThanhNien News) Reported by Phuc Nam – Thuc Doan Date: 1/24/2008
The Tay Ninh Province police are set to charge two Malaysians and two Vietnamese for trafficking women to Cambodia and Malaysia. more

Women-traffickers arrested, could face charges
-(Source: ThanhNien News) Reported by Thanh Dung
Vietnamese police said they aimed to press charges against eight accused of trafficking women from Vietnam to Malaysia and Macau after tips from victims led to the gang’s arrest last week. more

Escaped victim’s letter helps nab traffickers in Vietnam
-(Source: ThanhNien News) Reported by Dam Huy. Date: 9/4/2006
A letter written by a 20-year-old Ho Chi Minh City girl has helped police break up a gang trafficking Vietnamese girls to Macau for prostitution and nab the culprits. more

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Trafficking of Vietnamese Women through Brokered Marriages

HCMC: marriage brokers keep cops guessing
- (Source: VNE). Date: 5/3/2006

As HCM City police crack down on illegal marriage brokerage services, the establishments are subtly shifting their bases of operations. Now cafés and swimming pools are the place for rural girls to show off their wares for Taiwanese, Korean and Chinese men who have come searching for match made brides. more

150,000 Vietnamese women wed foreigners
-(Source: SGGP). Date: 10/5/2007

The Ministry of Justice declared that about 150,000 Vietnamese women have married foreigners or Vietnamese who live abroad. These marriages connect Viet Nam with more than 50 countries throughout the world. more

To Taiwan:
Tragedies of young girls after marriage breaks down
- Kieu Chinh, 1/3/2007
In a short time, My went from a charming and intelligent girl to a mentally disordered woman. It is said to be the result of her marriage to a Taiwanese man breaking up. more

To South Korea
One more Vietnamese bride reported dead in Korea
- (Source: Tuoi Tre, VietNamNet), 8/21/2007
The MBC channel in the Republic of Korea (RoK) has recently reported that a Vietnamese bride died while seeking to escape from her husband’s house in April. more

Ashes of Vietnamese bride in Korea brought home
- (Source: VNE), 8/30/2007
The ashes of Vietnamese bride Huynh Mai, who was murdered by her husband in the Republic of Korea, were brought back to Vietnam on August 29. more

South Koreans unhappy with Vietnamese wife-search experiences
-(Source: ThanhNien News). Date: 1/21/2008
Many South Korean men have been disillusioned by their attempts to find a bride in Vietnam using illicit marriage brokerages, prompting calls for matchmaking services to be legalized. more

More Vietnamese girls want to marry Korean men
- (Source: Dan Tri, Tien Phong), 9/24/2007

The number of girls who want to get married to Korean men has soared from 80 in 2005 to 299 in 2006 and 326 in the first nine months of 2007 in Vinh Long province in the south. more

To Malaysia:

Women traffickers sentenced
-(Source: Vietnamnet Bridge), 7/27/2007
VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Court on July 26 handed down prison terms ranging from 5-12 years to six defendants who were found guilty of running a trans-national women trafficking syndicate. more

Vietnamese girl ‘auctioned’ in Malaysia
- (Source: Tien Phong), 5/10/2006

The Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia has sent a diplomatic note to the Malaysian Home Affairs Ministry, expressing Vietnam’s protest against purchasing of Vietnamese women in Malaysia. more

Police inspect ring trafficking Vietnamese women to Malaysia
-(Source: Thanh Nien News.) Reported by Phuc Nam. Date:1/5/2007
Police in Tay Ninh Province arrested four women who had been allegedly trafficking girls to Malaysia after receiving a letter detailing the sick trade. more

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Involuntary Servitude among Guest Workers
The following articles are about labour exploitation among Vietnamese migration workers aboard.

Many Vietnamese workers in Malaysia strangely die
-(Source: VietnamNet.) Date:2/28/2008.
Within only one week in late 2007, three Vietnamese workers were reported dead in Malaysia, raising the total number to over 100 in 2007. more

Guest worker quality needs improvement
-(Source: VietnamNet.) Date:04/5/2008
The Department for Overseas Worker Management under the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) plans to send about 85,000 Vietnamese labourers to foreign countries this year, focusing mainly on markets such as Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan and the Middle East. However, the quality of labourers is a major barrier to accessing new markets. more

IOM helps oppressed Vietnamese workers in Jordan
-(Source: VietnamNet.) Date:2/29/2008
According to a communiqué from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), representatives of IOM and the Jordanian Labor Ministry on February 27 took a field trip to where, according to IOM, over 200 Vietnamese workers are being oppressed. more

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Involuntary Domestic Servitude

Many of these stories are in Vietnamese, here are a few that are featured in English:

Children’s stories shock adults
-(Source: VietnamNet Bridge) Date: 09/08/2007
At the forum “We talk about child trafficking prevention and child protection” held in Hanoi early this week, many stories told by children shocked attendants. more