Because Vietnamese are permitted to travel without visas in Singapore<br />and Malaysia for 30 days at a time, many Vietnamese escorts and prostitutes travel in a constant loop through the three countries, said Nicolas Lainez, an anthropologist in Singapore with the Paris-based School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.<br />“So labor migration overseas seems like the obvious choice for many.”<br />Malaysia hosted nearly 2.5 million international migrants in 2013, according to the United Nations data, making it the largest destination for migrant<br />workers after Thailand in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a group of 10 countries with a combined population of more than 600 million.<br />Instead, to her family’s shock, Ms. Huong is a prime suspect in the Feb. 13 killing of Kim Jong-nam,<br />the half brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, at the airport for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
