Asia sees big business in falsified passports

Two holders of fake passports on missing Malaysia Flight MH370 are the latest example of a booming business in fake documents in Southeast Asia.

The two used the passports of a 30-year-old Austrian and a 37-year-old Italian to board the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Gangs in Thailand use stolen passports and fake identities to forge new passports that allow passengers to evade patchy security checks and fly to their destinations, a Reuters report said on Monday.