Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The Human Rights Watch’s recent report on forced labor and abuses in drug detention centres in Vietnam is groundless and distorts the reality in Vietnam with bad intention, the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said in Hanoi on Sept. 9.

Vietnam must stop detaining drug users and sex workers without rights required under international law, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

HANOI - International health experts criticize Vietnam’s estimated 70 compulsory drug treatment centres.

HANOI — Nearly 600 inmates in a Vietnamese drug rehabilitation camp overpowered security guards and escaped, an official said Monday. At least two-thirds of them were still at large.

HANOI — Six former police drug squad officers who protected a heroin ring in Vietnam have been jailed for up to 17 years, state media reported on Saturday.

A Vietnamese drug dealer and her four Chinese accomplices have been captured by police in the middle of last month in southwest China trafficking 11 kilogram of heroin, police said Monday.

HANOI - A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian woman of Vietnamese origin to life in jail for trafficking heroin, and her husband, who is also of Vietnamese descent, to a 20-year jail term on the same charge.

HANOI - Vietnam arrested three Australian women after authorities allegedly found heroin in the hotel room of two of them and in a packet hidden on the body of the third as she tried to board a plane home, state-controlled media reported Friday.

HANOI - Vietnam police have busted a drug ring smuggling nearly nine tonnes of cannabis to Canada, a record haul for the country, media reports said on Thursday. Five suspects with Chinese and Indonesian passports have been arrested over the monster shipment, stored in two containers marked as carrying jeans and headed from Pakistan to Canada via China.