JAKARTA, May 19 — The police in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province have foiled an attempt to traffic 26 undocumented workers to Malaysia and arrested three suspected traffickers, according to the authorities.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — The Royal Malaysia Police rescued 85 individuals, including children and foreign nationals, believed to be victims of human trafficking during a large-scale operation carried out across the country yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — The police rescued 16 people, including teenagers, believed to be victims of forced labour during a series of raids across the Klang Valley yesterday by Bukit Aman’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants (ATIPSOM) unit under Op Pintas Mega.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 — The Immigration Department rescued 10 underage foreign girls believed to be victims of sexual exploitation during a raid on a spa and massage centre in Johor Bahru yesterday.

SHAH ALAM, April 27 — Only one child rescued from GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) remains at a Social Welfare Department (JKM) care centre.

HANOI, March 27 — The Cambodian authorities have reported that the country has intensified efforts to combat human trafficking and sexual exploitation last year, recording 197 cases, an increase of 20 per cent compared to 164 cases in the previous year.

KAJANG, March 24 — The Shah Alam High Court today dismissed an application by GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) chief executive officer Datuk Nasiruddin Mohd Ali and 12 others who are facing charges of being members of an organised crime group to be allowed bail.

BANGKOK, March 19 — Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to 100,000 people working there, the top police general leading Thailand's operations against the fraud compounds told Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — The legal practitioner arrested over corruption related to birth registration is suspected of processing birth certificate applications after receiving payment from applicants.

PUTRAJAYA, March 7 — The Court of Appeal has upheld the 10-year prison sentences imposed on four Myanmar nationals for smuggling 31 migrants into Malaysia.

BANGKOK, March 6 — Thailand is set to repatriate 1,500 people freed from alleged job scam syndicates in Myanmar each week.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19 — The Home Ministry (KDN), via the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), has received 482 reports as of January 17 this year involving 628 Malaysians who fell victim to job scam syndicates.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 — The Myanmar crisis, the South China Sea disputes, and intra-Asean trade are among the topics discussed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim during an audience with the Sultan of Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah at Istana Nurul Iman in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei today.

BANGKOK, Feb 16 — The Malaysian Embassy in Bangkok will conduct a consular visit on Sunday to 15 Malaysians rescued from job scam syndicates in Myanmar who are housed at the Fort Vachiraprakan military camp in Tak Province, northern Thailand, to provide necessary consular assistance.

BANGKOK, Feb 12 — Fifteen Malaysians were among 260 foreign victims of call centre syndicates in Myawaddy, Myanmar, who were released by the Burmese authorities and sent to Thailand for deportation today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — A Malaysian man was among 61 people rescued from suspected human trafficking and online scam operations in Myanmar and sent to Thailand yesterday .

LONDON, Feb 7 — Thousands of victims of modern slavery are being denied support because of the United Kingdom’s crackdown on illegal migration, according to more than a dozen sources, a decade after the approval of legislation that put the country at the forefront of the global fight against human trafficking.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 — Police rescued three Bangladeshi men, suspected of being human trafficking victims, and arrested 29 other foreigners for various immigration offences in a raid at a factory in Petaling Jaya near here yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 20 — The Asean National Police (Aseanapol) will prioritise the eradication of scam call centres linked to trafficking in persons and forced criminal activities as part of its regional action plan this year, Plans and Programmes Aseanapol Secretariat director and police chief Nguyen Huu Ngoc said.

BEIJING, Jan 17 — China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday called on Southeast Asian countries to take strong measures to crack down on online gambling and telecom fraud, urging the "relevant" nations to shoulder their responsibilities.