Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Counselor for Public Affairs of the US Embassy to Vietnam Louis P. Lantner has voiced support for Vietnam's fight against human trafficking.

Mr Lantner approved an assistance project for the Vietnam Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender-Family-Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) to help it prevent human trafficking as well as assist those who are victims of the crime.

The project is expected to be implemented this month, with two major objectives: providing knowledge and counseling via telephone hotlines for the public so that they can protect themselves from human trafficking.

According to the CSAGA, during the past 10 years, as many as 15,000 Vietnamese women have married Chinese men, both legally and illegally through border-gates.

(The Law Sept 9 p2, Youth Sept 8 p2)