On Friday, the local police co-operated with concerned agencies to take the Chinese people to the border area of the northern province of Lang Son to hand over them to the Chinese side.
They were among nine Chinese residents caught illegally sneaking into Vietnam at the end of December last year. They were on a passenger bus which was on the way from Haiphong City to HCM City.
The passenger bus in which the Chinese residents were found
All of the Chinese nationals had their personal papers with them but they did have enough required papers to prove that they had lawfully entered Vietnam. The eight were detained, while the other fled and is still being hunted by Vietnamese authorities.
The Chinese men said that they sought to come to Vietnam as a way to illegally enter Cambodia to work.
The Chinese illegal immigrants were fined VND4,000 (USD173.91) each by Phu Yen police and were sent to a local quarantine site.