 | Customs officers at the Tan Cang Cai Mep-Thi Vai Port found a shipment suspicious and carried out an inspection. Inside one of the containers, they found 119kg (262 pounds) of high-quality cocaine, putting the total value of the haul at up to $34.5m. |  |
 42-year-old Nigerian Ugah Victor Uchenna reacts to being sentenced to death for drug trafficking. | Despite having some of the toughest drug laws in the world, Vietnam is a key trafficking hub for narcotics and has seen a sharp rise in drug trafficking. In the first five months of this year the amount of confiscated heroin has doubled and that of ecstasy has increased by 30 percent. |  In 2014, 30 men and women, all Vietnamese, were found guilty of drug trafficking and given the death penalty. |
