The issue of drug abuse and related criminality is evolving, characterized by a distinct spatial shift. As security at traditional accommodation establishments, offenders are exploiting the privacy of private apartments and vacation rentals, to conduct illicit activities, effectively bypassing conventional law enforcement monitoring.

The two sides agreed to work with each other to enhance the effectiveness of their joint efforts to fight cross-border drug crime.

A Vietnamese man in Hanoi was sentenced to 18 years in imprisonment for trafficking drugs while his Scottish accomplice was pronounced two-year jail.

The task team of Vietnam's police tracked six locations and arrested seven people in a drug line led by an ex Korean police.