
Ring had trafficked heroin from Laos to China.

She said some people in Australia forced her to become a drug mule to clear gambling debt

She has been accused of hiding the drugs in two jars of fish paste

He was arrested while attempting to flee the country with 2.5 kilograms of heroin

She was hired to bring 1.5 kilograms of cocaine from Brazil into Vietnam in 2013

Investigators found the gang had carried the drug from the Laos border on 22 occasions

The executions of seven foreigners in April -- among them two Australians -- prompted Australia to temporarily withdraw its ambassador.

An United Nations agency estimates that Southeast Asia's trade in heroin and methamphetamine was worth $31 billion in 2013.

Three Laotian men were caught with 4 kilograms of heroin and 42,000 pills of a synthetic drug

His accomplice managed to escape on foot after a high-speed motorbike chase


Officials suspect the gang has been trafficking drugs across border and is opening a branch in Vietnam

Police caught him in late December with 600 pills

The Canadian man carried the drugs from Toronto into Vietnam.

The ring had managed to keep expanding its illegal operation across the country until its kingpin was caught in 2013