108 Vietnamese women rescued in Malaysia raids Malaysian police recently raided two premises in Seri Manjung town, rescuing 108 Vietnamese women from an allegedly human trafficking ring.                                       Malaysia’s News Straits Times reported 10 officers and 28 personnel from the Federal Police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (Bukit Aman) and the Manjung police district team stormed into a karaoke joint and a restaurant nearby at 11.00pm on January 5 after receiving a phone call from one of the victims. They rescued 90 of the women from the karaoke bar and the remainder from the restaurant. Only 37 of the women had passports with them. Bukit Aman's Gambling, Vice and Secret Society Division (D7) officer, Superintendent Ang Ah Ban said the women, aged between 16 and 32, were believed to have been lured to Malaysia to work. However, instead of being given proper work they were forced to entertain male clients as "guest relations officers". The police also detained roughly 100 clients of the two premises for questioning. Le Thi Hoang Cuc, Ministser-Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, said the embassy has yet to receive any information from relevant Malaysian agencies. The embassy sent a diplomatic note to relevant Malaysian agencies, asking them to provide information about the case. Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao said the embassy will send officials to Manjung district, hundreds of kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur, to provide immediate assistance to the victims.   VOV