Vietnam has been intensifying efforts to bring a stop to human trafficking in recent years, according to Deputy Spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang.

In recent years, authorities and people of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have taken drastic measures to fight cross-border human trafficking.

The People’s Court of Hanoi on July 12 sentenced three women and one man to a total 18 years in prison for illegally transporting and trading 984kg of pangolin scales, one of the largest cases of wildlife trafficking detected so far in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Border guards of the Central Highland province of Gia Lai said on July 6 that they had started legal proceedings against a man for allegedly trafficking seven Jrai ethnic teenagers from Gia Lai to Cambodia.

VOV.VN - The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C04) has broken up a transnational drug trafficking ring from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City, seizing 115 kg of synthetic drugs.

Border guards in the northern border province of Dien Bien said they have broken two drug trafficking rings dealing from Laos to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The United States will provide an additional US$19 million in grant to help clear leftover unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on June 13 launched a new project to help Vietnam control the increasingly serious wildlife trafficking situation.

The Vietnamese and Lao ministries of public security will work harder to raise the efficiency of cooperation in drug combat, heard a meeting in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue on June 3.

VOV.VN - Police forces operating in the northern province of Dien Bien recently announced the arrest of seven men for allegedly trafficking 72 heroin cakes and 552,000 ecstasy pills.