Competent forces in the south-central province of Binh Dinh have successfully rescued a foreign sailor who had suffered serious injuries and brought him ashore for emergency medical care, the provincial Border Guard Command reported on December 12.

The Border Guard High Command of the north central province of Thanh Hoa on September 13 said they had arrested a man trafficking seven bricks of heroin (weighing about 350 grams a brick) and 56,000 methamphetamine pills.

Malaysian authorities on August 23 said competent forces had seized 3.2 tonnes of cocaine and 500kg of ketamine, worth a combined 161 million USD, in the country's biggest drugs haul to date.

Competent forces in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh on March 6 caught red-handed two individuals transporting two bricks of heroin weighing 688.48 grams.

The Hanoi Customs Department said on November 23 that its officers and other forces brought to light a case of using express delivery service to bring cocaine into Vietnam from Canada.

Customs officers at Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport and competent forces on November 23 arrested a man for illegally carrying firearms.