Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/10/23
By: Chen Chao-fu and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Oct. 23 (CNA) Three people were sentenced to prison Wednesday for helping to hide

Vietnamese tourists and secure illegal employment for them in Taiwan shortly after the visitors entered the country last year.

The sentences handed down by the Kaohsiung District Court on the three defendants ranged from three months to three years in prison.

Mai Thi Trang (梅氏妝), a Vietnamese woman who was working as a sales representative of a travel agency in Hanoi, was given a nine-month sentence for her role in the disappearance of 148 Vietnamese who arrived in Taiwan late last year on tourist visas.

Mai and other employees at the travel agency were accused of charging US$1,000 to US$3,000 to obtain e-visas for Vietnamese who wanted to work in Taiwan and bringing them into the country under the "Kuan Hung" tourism program.    [FULL  STORY]