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The police said on Tuesday that last month they caught Nguyen Thi Lien, 42, delivering seven kilograms of meth and 15,000 amphetamine pills from the northern province to Nam Dinh. She had divided the drugs into small packets disguised as tea bags and hid them in suitcases to evade detection, they said. She told the police she would go often to Ha Tinh Province, which neighbors Laos, to buy synthetic drugs in large quantities and bring them back to sell in Hanoi and northern provinces. At the time of her arrest she brought along her 16-month-old child to allay suspicion. The police are investigating if she has links to any gang. Demand for narcotics in Vietnam remains high and enforcement agencies have not been able to completely stop the infiltration of drugs, Minister of Public Security To Lam has said. He said Vietnam’s proximity to the Golden Triangle, an intersection of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar and the world’s second largest drug producing area after the Golden … [Read more...] about Woman arrested in northern Vietnam with drugs carried from Laos border

Relevant forces seized 100,000 meth pills, one car, three mobile phones, three passports and some relevant documents and objects. (Photo: VNA) Quang Tri (VNA) – Three Lao citizens were arrested on May 23 for trafficking meth pills into Vietnam. Border guards from Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri and police from Laos’ central Savannakhet province uncovered the case. The drug traffickers were arrested in Savannakhet’s Sepon district, about one km from Lao Bao international border gate in Quang Tri. Relevant forces seized 100,000 meth pills, one car, three mobile phones, three passports and some relevant documents and objects. The trio confessed that they bought the drugs from Laos, then transported by car through the night to avoid the inspection of relevant forces.  They gathered the drugs at an area opposite to the Lao Bao international border gate to seek ways to bring them into Vietnam for sales. Further investigation is underway.-VNA VNA … [Read more...] about Three Laos arrested for trafficking drugs into Vietnam

At the site of the accident (Photo: VNA)  Vinh Phuc (VNA) - Seven people were killed and three others were injured on March 27 morning after a coach crashed into a funeral procession in northern Vinh Phuc province’s Yen Lac district.  The accident happened at 5am on a road of Trung Nguyen village, Trung Nguyen commune, with the coach plowing into a group of pedestrians, killing five people instantly, while two others died later in hospital, said Hoang Van Hoan, chief of office of the provincial traffic safety board. The injured people are still under treatment in hospital and local police are investigating the accident, Hoan said. Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, who is head of the National Committee for Traffic Safety and Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The sent their condolences to the victims’ families. Binh instructed the provincial People’s Committee and relevant agencies to deal with the aftermath and organise drug tests for all drivers of … [Read more...] about Seven killed after coach crashes into funeral procession

Workers at a fish market in Samut Sakhon province, west of Bangkok (SOurce: AP) Bangkok (VNA) –Thailand’s fisheries association plans to pay its employees through bank accounts from April or May 2018 in an effort to prevent forced labour. It is according to a report of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on conditions for fishermen and seafood processing workers in Thailand. Before it begins enforcing the order, the association will need to issue new employment contracts to migrant workers in the seafood and fishing industries. Jarin Jakkaphak, Permanent Secretary of the Labour Ministry said that the policy to pay through bank accounts will ensure greater transparency and fairness to workers in the seafood and fishing industry. Thailand's seafood industry has come under scrutiny in recent years after investigations showed slavery, trafficking and violence on fishing boats and at onshore processing facilities. According to an ILO official in Bangkok, … [Read more...] about Migrant workers in Thailand to be paid through bank accounts

An overview of a NA session (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The National Assembly has issued Resolution 98/2019/QH14 approving two legal documents on the national border between Vietnam and Cambodia. Subject to the resolution are the Supplementary Treaty to the 1985 Treaty on the Delimitation of the National Boundary and the 2005 Supplementary Treaty between Vietnam and Cambodia, and the Protocol on the Demarcation and Marker Planting of the Land Boundary between Vietnam and Cambodia. The two legal documents were signed in Hanoi on October 5, 2019. The resolution also allows the direct enforcement of all stipulations in the two documents. The NA requests the Prime Minister to bear responsibility for organizing the implementation of the two documents. The PM is also tasked with approving a plan on communication activities to enhance awareness among the political system and the people, especially residents in the 10 provinces bordering Cambodia on the documents and create … [Read more...] about National Assembly issues resolution approving border-related treaties