24,000 ecstasy pills seized in weekend bust

Tan Son Nhat, Vietnam's largest airport, has been disrupted by people high on drugs five times in the last six months.

Four people were arrested in the central province of Nghe An on Wednesday for allegedly trafficking drugs from Laos to southern Vietnam.

Four people including a woman were sentenced to death on Wednesday by a HCMC court for trading six kilograms of narcotics in 2014.

The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced three Vietnamese to death on Tuesday on drugs charges.

A Vietnamese-Australian man and two members of his drug ring were arrested Thursday at a transaction point near Saigon.

A woman who allegedly trafficked drugs from Laos border to Hanoi and northern provinces has been arrested.

A 1999 law that would imprison anyone who illegally uses drugs is on the anvil as an anti-drug trafficking move.

Two Vietnamese men were arrested while carrying methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam on a motorbike on Wednesday.

Vietnam has sentenced 10 people to death for smuggling meth, ketamine and ecstasy across the country by train, as the country deepens its crackdown on drugs.

Vietnam’s long borders, multitude of trafficking routes and customs loopholes make it a major drug trafficking hub, top drug officials admit.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities are cracking down on drugs, especially methamphetamine, whose use is becoming rampant.

To put this in perspective, the combined tally for 2017 and 2018 was 8.5 tons.

Foreign drug cartels functioning under the guise of normal businesses have turned HCMC into a trafficking hub.