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Thailand seizes $90M in crystal meth disguised as corn flour bags

Thailand seizes $90M in crystal meth disguised as corn flour bags

Thai authorities have seized over 2 metric tons of crystal meth disguised as corn flour bags from a tourist boat in eastern Thailand, preventing the US$90 million shipment from being smuggled out of the country.
HCMC police seize 245 kg of drugs in network involving 4 flight attendants

HCMC police seize 245 kg of drugs in network involving 4 flight attendants

Vietnam official leads drug trafficking ring across Laos border

Vietnam official leads drug trafficking ring across Laos border

HCMC court sentences 27 to death in drug trafficking case

HCMC court sentences 27 to death in drug trafficking case

The HCMC People's Court sentenced a Vietnamese drug lord and her 26 subordinates to death on Friday for drug trafficking, marking a case with the highest number of individuals sentenced to death in Vietnam in the past decade.
December 27, 2024 | 07:16 pm PT
Vietnamese-Canadian sentenced to death for trafficking 100 kg of drugs

Vietnamese-Canadian sentenced to death for trafficking 100 kg of drugs

A Vietnamese-Canadian man, along with three accomplices, was sentenced to death on Monday for trafficking over 100 kg of drugs into Vietnam.
December 16, 2024 | 12:32 am PT
Courier sentenced to death for smuggling 25 kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam

Courier sentenced to death for smuggling 25 kg of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam

A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to death for trafficking 25 kilograms of drugs across the Vietnam-Cambodia border multiple times.
November 21, 2024 | 12:36 am PT
Thailand seizes 100 kg of crystal meth in tour van bound for Malaysia

Thailand seizes 100 kg of crystal meth in tour van bound for Malaysia

Thai police found 100 kg of crystal methamphetamine being smuggled to Malaysia in a concealed compartment in the roof of a tour van near the border in Songkhla Province.
October 25, 2024 | 08:35 pm PT
HCMC incinerates 1.3 tons of drugs seized from 126 criminal cases

HCMC incinerates 1.3 tons of drugs seized from 126 criminal cases

Ho Chi Minh City police and other law enforcement agencies on Wednesday destroyed 1.3 tons of narcotics, which served as evidence in 126 criminal cases, by incineration.
September 25, 2024 | 08:38 pm PT
Military captain sentenced to death for running 227-kg narcotics ring

Military captain sentenced to death for running 227-kg narcotics ring

A former military captain in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to death for running a narcotics trading ring involving 227 kilograms of drugs.
August 10, 2024 | 10:00 pm PT
Man sentenced to death for possessing 2 kg of drugs

Man sentenced to death for possessing 2 kg of drugs

A Quang Nam Province court handed the death penalty on Tuesday to a drug dealer who was caught red-handed with two kilograms of drugs.
August 6, 2024 | 08:08 pm PT
Eight Lao nationals arrested for smuggling 200 kg of drugs into Vietnam

Eight Lao nationals arrested for smuggling 200 kg of drugs into Vietnam

Vietnam border guards arrested eight Laos nationals on Thursday for trafficking nearly 200 kilograms (441 pounds) of illegal drugs into the country via the border in central Vietnam's Quang Nam Province.
May 30, 2024 | 04:51 pm PT
East, Southeast Asia had record methamphetamine seizures last year

East, Southeast Asia had record methamphetamine seizures last year

East and Southeast Asia are awash in record amounts of methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in a new report.
May 29, 2024 | 03:14 pm PT
HCMC police seize 44 kg of drugs, arrest 90 smugglers

HCMC police seize 44 kg of drugs, arrest 90 smugglers

The HCMC police have arrested nearly 90 people linked to a gang suspected to smuggle drugs into Vietnam by concealing them in food containers.
May 22, 2024 | 04:00 am PT
Thai police seize one tonne of crystal meth

Thai police seize one tonne of crystal meth

Thai authorities intercepted a tonne of crystal methamphetamine in one of the kingdom's biggest ever single seizures of the illegal drug, police said Sunday.
May 12, 2024 | 06:31 pm PT
Six Laotians arrested for transporting 121 kg of drugs into Vietnam

Six Laotians arrested for transporting 121 kg of drugs into Vietnam

Six Laos nationals were arrested after transporting 120 kg of drugs from over the border to central Ha Tinh Province on Monday.
May 7, 2024 | 03:00 am PT
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