A mother in China who spotted a young girl while visiting a far-off province and decided she was a “perfect wife” for her 27-year-old son, has been jailed along with him for abducting the girl.

Four arrests were made in connection to a website promising women opportunities to ‘earn tens of millions of yen a month’ in the US sex industry.

A man from China who tried to sneak across the border into Cambodia to find a well-paid job was so afraid of the possible dangers ahead that he carried one of the most famous books ever written on warfare strategy.

Analysts point to social-media disinformation to ‘discredit’ and ‘demonise’ Rohingya refugees in the lead-up to the presidential election in February.

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s 2009 book Half the Sky opened the eyes of Natalie Chow, co-founder of Hong Kong-based sustainable and ethical shoe brand Kibo, to human trafficking and slavery.

Interpol chief Jurgen Stock said the organised crime groups are now ‘working at a scale that was unimaginable a decade ago’.

A grand jury found that Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel conspired to bring and transport illegal immigrants to the US, causing serious bodily injury.

Filipino women escorted by Chinese nationals posing as their husbands have been intercepted at the border, immigration officials say. Anti-trafficking experts suspect organised crime groups are involved.

A Romanian court has granted the British request, but the internet personality will be handed over only after his local is over.

Trapped in a cycle of debt and exploitation by the host clubs of Tokyo’s Kabukicho nightlife district, ‘Yu’ found herself forced to work in a ‘soapland’ brothel in Macau.

An activist says dozens more people have yet to be rescued, in a case that highlights the risks that people from Bangladesh face when accepting jobs in Malaysia.

A wealthy businessman in China’s generous offer in a bid to enlist help in the search for his child who went missing more than two decades ago has attracted so many scammers it is negatively affecting his life.

A man in China was rescued three years after being kidnapped in Southeast Asia and coerced into forced labour due to a deceptive “too good to be true” holiday package.

The 25 people, who had applied for political asylum in France, were freed on Tuesday. They had been held on suspicion of human trafficking.

Rohingya refugees have experienced increasing hostility in Indonesia as locals grow frustrated at the numbers of boats arriving with the ethnic minority, who face persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

Rohingya refugees like Nur Azizah reach Indonesia after perilous boat journeys, but are unable to work and have to rely on support from international organisations.

276 of the 303 passengers on the Airbus A340 originally bound for Nicaragua took the nearly 9-hour flight to Mumbai.

The passengers might have planned to travel to Central America to attempt illegal entry into the US or Canada.

Much of the resistance to Rohingya refugees stems from online misinformation, human rights activists say, as well as organised attacks against the United Nations and its refugee agency.

Fierce fighting along countries’ border prompts Beijing to urge parties to show ‘maximum restraint’ after hundreds of thousands of refugees flee area.

Both countries have concerns about external threats to their socialist system, former PLA instructor says as nations agree to share intelligence.

Interpol’s crackdown, which uncovered immigrants from 69 countries, shows how the migration corridor to the US has become the target of organised crime groups from around the world.

Reunion after 25-year search for missing child sparks social media fervour, while expert advises caution about AI’s use.

A 25-year-old man in China, who was abducted and sold as a three-month-old, has been reunited with his multimillionaire birth parents who have showered him with expensive gifts.

The Indonesian president says his government ‘will take strict action against human trafficking perpetrators’.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry said the group were stranded in Laukkaing, a town known as a notorious hub for major organised crimes. An Indonesian and a Hongkonger were also evacuated.

The DNA-match reunion of parents with their son in China, who was abducted as a child 33 years ago and is now in jail for petty crime, has triggered online condemnation of the toll human trafficking takes on people’s lives.

Force deploys patrol boat to rescue three of them from Peaked Hill, southwest of Lantau, while fourth, who was reportedly injured, airlifted off island.

Amid concerns about trafficking and a lack of resources to help the persecuted minority who have been fleeing Myanmar, Aceh villagers gave out supplies and repaired the group’s boat after desperate passengers tried to sink it.