Nearly 3,500 Vietnamese people trafficked over the past 6 years As many as 3,476 Vietnamese people have been recorded as victims of trafficking since 2013. Most of them are ethnic minority people.

Việt Nam joins efforts in transnational crime prevention Minister of Public Security General Tô Lâm led the Vietnamese delegation to the 10th ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC+3) Consultation which took place in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday.

Việt Nam awaiting UK court's decision to bring 39 lorry victims' bodies home

British police have charged a 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland with human trafficking as part of their inquiry into the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a container truck near London last month, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Police announce list of UK lorry victims

One day after announcing the information affirming that all the 39 victims in the incident of the container truck, detected in Essex county, northeast of London, on October 23, are Vietnamese, the Ministry of Public Security late Friday evening officially announced their identities.

Vietnamese nationals jailed as cannabis ring smashed

A gang of Vietnamese nationals have been jailed for a total of 37 years after police smashed a sophisticated cannabis ring operating in the United Kingdom.

All 39 victims in UK lorry confirmed as Vietnamese

In a statement released Thursday evening, the Ministry of Public Security of Việt Nam said UK authorities had confirmed the 39 migrants found in the refrigerated container on October 23 on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex in the south of England were from Việt Nam.

When promised land turns out to be tragedy

A phone call Nguyễn Đình Gia received on Saturday night ended his last hopes of ever seeing his son again.

Lorry Tragedy in the United Kingdom - Special report

Economic factors behind most VN illegal migrants: expert

Following the tragic lorry deaths in Essex, some 28 families from central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh have reported to local authorities that they are no longer in contact with relatives who were supposed to be en route to the UK. Mark Brown, the officer in charge of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Việt Nam, talks exclusively to Việt Nam News reporter Khoa Thư about illegal smuggling in the country and what the government can do to prevent similar cases.

UK sends papers to Việt Nam for verification of four victims

British police have sent documents to Việt Nam for verification on four of the 39 victims found dead inside a lorry last week, said a Vietnamese deputy foreign minister on Monday morning.