Vietnam
Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. The country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976. When compared with international standards, there are gaps in Vietnam's current domestic legal framework relevant to child sex tourism, according to Lindsay Buckingham, a legal consultant for the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC).[1] The age of consent in Vietnam is 16.
A report found "amongst Vietnamese child respondents, consensual sexual intercourse between a minor and an adult was not always recognised as child abuse".[2]
