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The Indonesia police anti-terror squad recently arrested six terror suspects in Lampung, West Sumatra and Riau Islands, Xinhua News Agency reported on November 8, citing police sources.

Police in the northwestern border province of Dien Bien said on September 23 that local authorities had arrested two people for trafficking drugs.

Huzir Mohamed, head of the Malaysia Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), has confirmed that the authorities had detained two men suspected of links to global hacking activities.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on September 16 announced that the state of emergency will be extended in three southern provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani for another three months.

The General Department of Vietnam Customs said on September 14 that it had coordinated with competent forces to arrest 11 suspects and seize 237 kg of different narcotics.

ASEAN Foreign Ministers on August 29 issued a joint statement condemning the terrorist bombings on Jolo island, Sulu province of the Philippines that left many dead and injured five days ago.

The Interior Ministry of Thailand on August 28 asked the governors of the 10 provinces bordering Myanmar to tighten security along the border to prevent illegal immigration because of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the neighbouring country.

Police in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on August 28 confirmed they have arrested a man for smuggling drug from Laos to Vietnam.

The Hanoi People’s Court is scheduled to open on September 7 the first-instance trial of 29 people involved in the murder of three policemen in Dong Tam commune of the city’s My Duc district.

Police in the northern border province of Quang Ninh on August 22 handed over to China 11 Chinese nationals who were being hunted by Chinese policemen for organising gambling on the Internet.

Vietnamese authorities and the Embassy of Vietnam in Russia that is also in charge of Uzbekistan are working closely with host authorities to bring Vietnamese citizens in Uzbekistan home at the earliest possible time.

Vietnam supports efforts made by the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the international community in promoting dialogue to achieve peaceful solutions between stakeholders, bringing the situation in Mali back to normal, said a Vietnamese diplomat.

Border guards in the northern border province of Son La said that they had arrested six members of a family for illegally entering Vietnam from Laos.

The Border Guard in the central province of Quang Tri worked with security forces in Laos’ Savannakhet province to arrest five Lao suspects as a result of an expanded investigation into a ring trafficking drugs from Laos to Vietnam.

Thailand’s Narcotics Suppression Bureau announced on August 2 that authorities have arrested 1,374 suspects and seized drugs worth about 535 million baht (17.1 million USD) in a crackdown in the northern region from April to June.

Border guards in northern Quang Ninh province have caught 16 Vietnamese citizens trying to illegally enter Vietnam from China.

The People’s Court of HCM City on July 27 handed down five death sentences and four terms of life imprisonment to defendants involved in a major drug ring led by Van Kinh Duong.

Amid increasing illegal fishing of foreign fishermen in the waters of Indonesia and Malaysia, the two Southeast Asian countries have recently applied more tough measures in handling violations.

The Investigation Police Agency had started legal proceedings against five defendants involving in a law violation case in the State-owned Saigon Agriculture Incorporated (Sagri), the Ministry of Public Security announced on July 11.

Police in the northwestern mountainous province of Son La teamed up with the General Department of Vietnam Customs’ anti-smuggling investigation agency to arrest a man on July 6 for trafficking five bricks of heroin and about 30,000 meth pills.