The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Public Security is investigating a female foreigner carrying more than 2.3 kilograms of drugs while she is doing entry procedures into Vietnam via Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Vietnamese and Taiwanese drug investigators have uncovered a massive transnational drug trafficking ring and have seized 446 packs of heroin worth more than US$6 million from a warehouse in HCMC.

Maritime smuggling is becoming more common among heroin traffickers according to an expert.

Police in some central provinces have found dozens of plastic bags containing a substance suspected to be heroin at local coast.

Police of Dien Bien Dong district in the northern border province of Dien Bien on August 4 arrested two men who were illegally transporting six bricks of heroin (about 2.1 kg).

A Laotian man was arrested by border guards in Thanh Hoa province after being caught illegally smuggling drugs across the border from Laos on June 2.

 A Canadian citizen in China has been sentenced to death after a court convicted him of drug smuggling on Monday, a move likely to further inflame tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Customs officials in HCM City discovered 40 shipments of various drugs in the first six months of 2018 and seized 54.5kg.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local authorities must be held accountable to the Government if they allow rampant crime in their jurisdictions, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh said yesterday.