Taiwan arrests 11 Vietnamese job seekers

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Jul 1, 2008, 5:05 GMT

Taiepi - Taiwan's Coast Guard has arrested 11 Vietnamese who paid a smuggling ring to bring them to the island to find work, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The Coast Guard nabbed the 11 Vietnamese on a fishing boat Monday off the coast of Miaoli, central Taiwan, the Taipei Times said. The nine men and two women were crammed into a small, wooden boat that had been built to accommodate only three to four people. The Vietnamese were taken to a police station in Tunghsiao for questioning. They admitted to paying 6,000 US dollars each for the trip from Vietnam via China to Taiwan. The first went to China's Guangzhou Province and then spent two days sailing to Taiwan to find work. It is not clear if Taiwan will allow the 11 Vietnamese to stay and work.

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