Human trafficking: M’sia stays on blacklist but S’pore, Ph released

The United States has removed the Philippines and Singapore from a human trafficking watch list that had drawn concerns from the close allies. Indonesia and Cambodia stayed at Tier 2, but Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam remained on the watch list. The only Asian jurisdictions on Tier 1, meaning full compliance, were South Korea and Taiwan. The US State Department’s annual Trafficking in ...