Leaving Vietnam for Cambodia, many Vietnamese thought that they would find "easy jobs with high incomes" as brokers promised. But in fact, since entering Cambodia, they became a "commodity" of human traffickers.

According to a report from the Institute for Social Development Studies, in 10 years (2004 to 2013), Lai Chau province had more than 200 victims of human trafficking.

Border guards at the Moc Bai International Border Gate in the south-western province of Tay Ninh said on October 27 that they are co-operating with Cambodian authorities to repatriate more than 800 Vietnamese citizens who wish to return home.

Nguyen Minh K., 24, of Ninh Thuan Province, still can't believe he was illegally sold to a casino in Cambodia.

Vietnam and Cambodia have saved over 1,000 Vietnamese citizens who have been tricked to work illegally in Cambodia, said Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang during a regular press conference in Hanoi on September 22.

Border guards of the south-eastern province of Tay Ninh received 92 Vietnamese nationals who were handed over by Cambodian authorities at Moc Bai International Border Gate on September 21.

At least 67 Vietnamese people fled a business premise in Bavet City in Cambodia on Saturday and attempted to return to Vietnam, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Government officials reported on the issue of Vietnamese being tricked into working illegally in Cambodia at the Government's regular press briefing in Hanoi on September 6.

The Foreign Ministry and Vietnam’s representative agencies in Cambodia have coordinated with the two countries’ authorities to safely repatriate over 600 citizens who had been tricked or lured to Cambodia for illegal work so far.

The An Giang Police’s Investigation Security Agency has arrested two suspects to investigate the act of "organising illegal exits" in a case of 40 Vietnamese nationals swimming across a river to Vietnam to escape from a casino in Cambodia.

Long Binh Border Gate Station in the southern province of An Giang has just detained 40 Vietnamese people who illegally entered the country by a local river.

Seven people in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have been rescued after being trafficked to Cambodia.

Close cooperation and sharing information with neighbouring countries are some of the most important weapons needed to fight the scourge of people trafficking.

Vietnam has made great efforts in combating human trafficking in the past two years despite the impact of Covid-19.

The Old Bailey Court in London on January 22 jailed four people-smugglers for a combined 78 years after 39 Vietnamese migrants smuggled to the UK were found dead in the back of a lorry.

Mrs. Truong Thi Truc, 80, from the central province of Thanh Hoa, has found her 49-year-old daughter after being missing for 26 years, thanks to information shared on Facebook.

Police forces operating in Quang Binh Province have moved to arrest two Vietnamese citizens suspected of assisting people to enter Australia illegally.

A man told a court in the United Kingdom he was responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese citizens who perished in the back of a lorry last year after they were smuggled into England.

A 40-year-old Irish haulier pleaded guilty at Old Bailey Court on August 28 to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, the UK last October.

The People’s Court of Dien Bien province, north-western Vietnam, on August 21 handed down a death sentence on seven local residents charged with smuggling and trafficking 51kg of heroin in 2019.