The police force of the northern province of Ha Giang and the border post at the locality’s Thanh Thuy International Border Gate handed over four illegal Chinese migrants back to their home country on May 7.

While Thai authorities have increased checkpoints and patrol along borders to prevent illegal entries to combat COVID-19, the Cambodian province of Takeo has locked down a village after new infection cases were continually reported.

The Investigation Security Agency under the Department of Public Security in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has decided to prosecute five people who illegally brought nine Vietnamese citizens across the border into Vietnam. Four of them have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on August 24 arrested 21 people wanted by Chinese police for asset misappropriation fraud.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have so far busted 152 illegal entries since May.

A total of 146 day-and-night checkpoints have been established by border guards in the northern province of Lang Son to stop illegal entries into Vietnam through small trails along border with China.

A Rohingya migrant is said to be the only survivor from a boat carrying at least two dozen asylum seekers that is believed to have run into difficulty off the Malaysian coast near Thailand, a coastguard official of Malaysia said on July 26.

Police in the northwestern province of Quang Ninh said on July 25 that they have detained and started legal procedures against six people from Mong Cai city for organising illegal entries into Vietnam.

Malaysia will conduct SARS-CoV-2 tests for undocumented migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Noor Hisham Abdullah, a senior health official, said on May 1.

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon on November 14 expressed his concern that elements of the self-claimed Islamic State (IS) and other terrorist groups have entered the country.

The Malaysian Government is continuing raids on illegal foreign workers nationwide.

Local media reported on December 14 that the number of illegal foreign workers in Malaysia have reduced drastically thanks to the Immigration Department’s rehiring and resettlement of illegal immigrants programme.

Malaysia’s authorities have recently arrested many illegal migrants from the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar.

Thailand on March 15 began a human trafficking trial with 92 defendants who were arrested by Thai authorities after mass graves of illegal migrants were found in the southern Thai jungle.

Malaysian authorities on January 27 announced that they recovered five more bodies on the beach of Johor state.