HCM City has implemented policies to safeguard children, including Resolution 35/2023/NQ-HDND, which provides monthly financial aid, health insurance, and educational support for orphans and disadvantaged children.
The Narcotics Investigation Centre (NIC) under Indonesia's National Police Criminal Investigation Directorate has announced the interception of a major trafficking operation, seizing 74 kg of marijuana from an inter-provincial network spanning from Mandailing Natal to Jakarta.
Indonesia’s Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry has commended the Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) of the National Police (Polri) for establishing the Directorate of Crimes Against Women and Children and Human Trafficking Crimes.
The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) on March 26 busted an international drug trafficking syndicate and seized 380 kilogrammes of methamphetamine worth 12.54 million MYR (2.7 million USD) at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang state.
A high-level delegation of the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) led by its Deputy Minister Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung paid a working trip to South Africa from February 24 to March 1 to promote bilateral cooperation between the two countries, especially in the field of law protection and enforcement.
The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C04) under the Ministry of Public Security announced on November 24 that it has smashed a cross-border drug production and trafficking ring and launched legal proceedings against seven suspects.
Tigers, bears, northern Chinese boar, pangolin and small Indian civet are cut into small pieces, each weighing 2-10 kilogrammmes before they are transported to Vietnam via buses.
Many zoos or farms in Laos have registered to take care of tigers. However, it seems they are raising the endangered animals for illegal butchering for bones, meat and other body parts.
The Customs Department of the central province of Quang Tri said on March 11 that they had coordinated with the provincial police and border guard to break up a drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam.
Police from the southeastern province of Binh Phuoc have seized 10 civets transported from Cambodia to Vietnam for investigating the case of trafficking rare and precious wild animals.
Thai police have seized more than 14 million methamphetamine pills worth 1.48 billion THB (45 million USD) that were bound for neighbouring Malaysia and beyond, authorities said on August 21.
The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh sentenced two people to life imprisonment for trafficking over 2.9 kg of Methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam at their first instance trial on August 14.
The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City has handed down the capital punishment on five defendants involving in the illegal trade and transportation of a big amount of drug at the end of a four-day trial on August 2.
Drastic efforts are crucial to ending gender inequality and violence against women and girls, said Le Khanh Luong, Vice Director of the Gender Equality Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Many public organisations and NGOs operate in the field of children protection in HCM City but do not work closely with one another, according to experts.
The Customs Department of southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau province launched a unit for container control on May 8 in an effort to counter trafficking of illicit goods across local ports.
