A man who allegedly befriended Vietnamese women through internet chatrooms, then enticed them to travel to China, has been arrested in Vietnam for people-smuggling. The man, identified as Nguyen Anh Tuan, is one of hundreds of cases cited by Vietnamese police and border guards last year, as China emerges as a major new human trafficking destination in the booming Mekong region.
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Talent: Nam Nguyen, Vietnam counter-trafficking official for the International Organisation for Migration; Lawrence Gray, World Vision’s Asia-Pacific Advocacy Director; Alan Dow, International Labour Organisation’s Mekong Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women
