51.   A Vietnamese woman convicted of trafficking marijuana has been sentenced to death, a provincial court official said Friday.

52.   A Vietnamese woman was forced by her husband to cut off the ear of a neighbour who attempted to rape her, the Lao Dong newspaper reported Friday.

53.   A Vietnamese woman, Lam Thi Mo Thu, was also sentenced to eight years in prison for her involvement in the case.

54.   A Vietnamese woman who did not wish to be named said she she had volunteered to be sent home to accompany her two-year-old son.

55.   Each year, more Vietnamese women -- now numbering in the hundreds -- marry foreigners.

56.   Earlier in the year, police raided a number of bars, mostly frequented by foreigners, and took away any Vietnamese women there on suspicion of being prostitutes.

57.   Thousands of Vietnamese women have also been sold by Vietnamese or Chinese traffickers, and have been forced to marry Chinese men or become concubines.

58.   The Vietnamese women and the boy were rescued after authorities were tipped off by the public and they were repatriated to Vietnam recently, the report said.

59.   Vietnamese women are also regarded as more submissive than Taiwanese women, who are much more westernised.

60.   Police have accused a Vietnamese woman who posed as a real estate agent of killing six people she drugged before robbing them, a newspaper report said Tuesday.