Coronavirus: How safe is ASEAN?
While countries may attempt to seal their borders, there’s still the possibility of the deadly virus slipping through via human trafficking.
ASEAN’s human trafficking plague
Human trafficking in ASEAN highlights the linkages between crime, civil unrest, and conflicts.
Village mourns cousins killed in UK truck tragedy
The small town has been in mourning since the news emerged that the cousins were among the victims of last month's UK truck tragedy
First remains of UK truck victims arrive in Vietnam
The bodies arrived on a commercial Vietnam Airlines flight from London to Hanoi.
Vietnam: From child labour to trafficking
Many of Vietnam’s trafficking victims are children but does child labour have anything to do with this?
Human trafficking thriving in ASEAN
A recent human trafficking case involving Vietnamese victims just highlights the extent of the problem in ASEAN.
Duterte’s drug war and child cybersex trafficking
Could Duterte’s drug war be a cause for more victims of child cybersex trafficking?
Paedophiles a step ahead of Cambodia
Cambodian officials are concerned that the country’s narrow laws are not effective when tackling online child sex abuse.
Cambodia’s paedophiles and the internet
Growing internet penetration is contributing to the child sex trade in and from Cambodia.
Slavery in Malaysia
With Independence Day around the corner, freedom still does not ring true for many Malaysians.
Stopping human trafficking in Lao
Human trafficking is now one of the world’s most lucrative organised crimes.
Pills, pangolins and purses
Conditions in Southeast Asia continue to favour the sustained growth of organised crime.