A 31-year-old woman has been sentenced to death by the Tay Ninh Province People’s Court for transporting nearly 8kg of methamphetamine.

The procuracy has demanded the death sentence for former Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Bac Son for accepting a 3 million USD bribe in the MobiFone-AVG transaction case.

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on October 7 sentenced eight defendants to death and another to life imprisonment for trafficking 379 heroin bricks weighing over 132kg and 55kg of methamphetamine.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Six members of a transnational drug smuggling ring received the death sentence on Thursday in northern Quang Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tan Lao Lo, accused of murdering four people, including three children in Bat Xat District in the northern mountain province of Lao Cai,  was sentenced to death yesterday by the provincial People’s Court.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Northern Quang Ninh Province's People's Court handed down 30 death penalties to members of a heroin ring for drug trafficking and smuggling on January 20.

 The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on September 25 sentenced three members of a drug trafficking ring to death.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three drug dealers got the death penalty and two others from the same ring were sentenced to life imprisonment after a two-day trial ended yesterday, July 4, in northern Bac Ninh Province.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Filipino woman was condemned to death yesterday, March 11, for transporting 5kg of narcotics into Vietnam.