01 September 2008 :

a court in Vietnam sentenced two people, including a woman, to death and jailed three others for trafficking heroin, the judge in the case said.
Ho Chi Minh City restaurant owner Dang Thi Nguyet, 58, and her male drug supplier Nguyen Van Lap, 32, received the death penalty in a one-day trial in the southern city. Two of Nguyet's sons, who had helped her sell heroin from the restaurant, received life prison terms, after her third son had died in custody since their arrests in October 2005. Another man was sentenced to 20 years in jail. They had been caught with 1.7kgs of the drug.