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The customs division at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City was rewarded by the city authorities on June 20 in recognition of its discovery of multiple drug and arms smuggling.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on April 13 handed down death penalties to two men involved in a case of smuggling 11.8kg of drugs.

Authorities of the northern border province of Quang Ninh seized two Vietnamese and one Chinese in three cross-border drug trafficking cases in Dan Tien pier, Mong Cai city on March 19 and 20.

A major drug trafficking ring was recently uncovered in Ho Chi Minh City, local police said on December 29.

Police in the northwestern border province of Son La caught two people in the act of illegally transporting 1,200 pills of synthetic drugs on December 15.

The Lang Son provincial People’s Court on December 3 gave life sentence to Lu Ye Huang, a Chinese national, on charges of illegal cross-border transport of drugs.

Security forces in northern Lang Son province arrested two persons transporting 10 kg of methamphetamine from China into Vietnam on November 17.

Ho Chi Minh City police have broken up a six-member drug trafficking ring, seizing 1,103 ecstasy pills, 499 grams of synthetic drugs, and nearly 10 kilograms of methamphetamine.