10 October 2013 :

a Thai drug smuggler has been sentenced to death in Vietnam, state media said, the second such penalty given to a foreigner within a week in the communist country. A court in Vietnam, whose drug laws are among the toughest in the world, sentenced Suracha Chaimongkol to death after she was caught carrying two kilograms (4.4 pounds) of cocaine, the official Thanh Nien newspaper said. The drugs were discovered hidden inside two photograph albums when the 31-year-old graduate landed at Ho Chi Minh City’s airport in October last year after taking a flight from Brazil.