11.   A high court sentenced eight people Wednesday to die before a firing squad for smuggling heroin into Vietnam from neighboring Laos.

12.   A Pakistani charged with smuggling heroin was among four prisoners who broke out of a jail near the capital, police officials said Tuesday.

13.   A Pakistani convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin into Saudi Arabia was executed Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

14.   A man smuggling heroin from Afghanistan into Tajikistan was killed by Russian border guards Wednesday in the second major drug seizure in two days, the border guards said.

15.   A Malaysian convicted of trying to smuggle heroin and his three accomplices were hanged Friday.

16.   A Nigerian and a Pakistani were beheaded Friday for smuggling heroin into the kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

17.   A Nigerian national was arrested while trying to smuggle heroin out of the country, the state-run news agency reported Saturday.

18.   A second Vietnamese-Canadian was sentenced to death before a firing squad for trying to smuggle heroin out of Vietnam.

19.   A group of Pakistani women were caught trying to smuggle heroin embedded in the gold thread of their embroidered clothes, the Al-Medina newspaper reported Tuesday.

20.   A Philippine court gave a Briton and a Burmese stiff prison sentences Tuesday for smuggling heroin into the country last year.