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Players of the national men’s football team (Photo: VNA) Hanoi – The national men’s football team is ranked 94th in the latest FIFA rankings, with 1,258 points. This ranking also helped Vietnam occupy the 14th spot among Asian teams. Vietnam led Southeast Asia, followed by Thailand, world No 113 and Asia No 20, with 1,178 points. Vietnam witnessed a strong surge in rankings in the past 10 years, leaping by 43 spots from the 137th place in 2010. Meanwhile, the women’s squad came at the 34th place in the FIFA rankings with 1,657 points. VNA …

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Tran Xuan Hiep, 30, and Nguyen Duy Phuong, 33, are under investigation for "trading human body parts," an offense punishable with life imprisonment. Investigators said the two men, both Hanoi residents, had once sold their own kidneys and thus having experiences in the process and required procedures for illegal kidney trade. The two relied on social media to source kidney donors and scouted hospitals to find patients in dire need of the organ. They purchased kidneys priced at VND230 million ($10,000) each, resold for VND1.1 billion a piece. Kidney donors were housed and looked after in rented premises in Hanoi while awaiting their operation. Any successful deal brought them VND200-300 million. In early February, the two traffickers agreed to sell kidneys to two patients at a hospital in Hanoi when apprehended by police. An investigation subsequently uncovered four more donors looking to profit from trading their organs. Hiep and Phuong told police they had already conducted several successful kidney trades. More than five million people have chronic kidney disease in Vietnam, and 100,000 have to receive dialysis daily, official data shows. Social insurance only funds the cost of dialysis, so those who need a transplant have to pay for it. Then, those with kidney failure have to register to wait in line for a legal kidney, which normally takes several months or even more due to a serious donor shortage. This has prompted many kidney patients to gradually lose hope and turn to the black market. In many cases, donors and receivers have no information on each other. In Vietnam, where organ donation is considered a taboo as many believe one should die wholly prepared for the afterlife, black market kidney transactions like Binh and Tien's are not rare. According to police, kidney traffickers usually conduct 30-50 deals per year. …

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Police in Ho Chi Minh City raided a hotel on Thursday and caught four South Korean men picking wives from a group of six Vietnamese girls at an illegal marriage brokerage service. Preliminary investigations revealed that the service was organized by a group of brokers led by a South Korean man, who connected Vietnamese girls with foreign husbands. The group changed location repeatedly in HCMC and Binh Duong Province to escape authorities. Cases of Vietnamese women offering themselves as wives for Korean, Chinese and Taiwanese men are not uncommon in Vietnam. Most of these girls come from poor families and have a vision of a better life overseas. Media reports suggest that many young Vietnamese women meet their future South Korean husbands through illegal brokerage services. Statistics show that almost 40 percent of those marriages end in divorce within five years. Some blame cultural and language differences for the break-ups, while others say they have been abused by their husbands and new families. According to immigration data published by The Korea Times , 147,295 Vietnamese people were living in South Korea at the end November last year, accounting for 7.4 percent of all expats. …

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