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Nigerian authorities arrested a man attempting to smuggle 88 wraps of cocaine, weighing 1.7 kilograms, in his stomach from Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to Vietnam.

The UK Foreign Office has updated its travel advice after reports of holidaymakers being prevented from leaving the country and having their passports seized

Police believe those arrested charged people thousands of pounds to bring them to the UK illegally.

Many in Vietnam are trapped in poverty and are susceptible to promises made by people smugglers of the riches to be found in the UK

Trinh Thi Khong, from Vietnam, claims she is the oldest person in the world at the age of 119 all thanks to a diet consisting of her favourite food - porridge. Efforts are underway to get her achievement recognised by the Guinness Book of Records

Londoner Benjamin Milner had been drinking while visiting Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City when he fell from the third floor of a guesthouse, an inquest in Bournemouth heard

Ha Long Bay in Vietnam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has been voted one of the seven natural wonders of the world due to its thousands of limestone karsts and islets

Twenty cats and kittens destined for the dinner table were given a second chance at life but work continues to see a nationwide ban

Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is widely considered to be the largest cave in the world - and it was only explored for the first time in 2009

'I just burst into tears,' says Downton Abbey star Lesley Nicol when she learned of the plight of Asia's black bears who are held in cruel conditions and farmed for their bile

Doctors in Vietnam found chopsticks lodged inside the skull of Mr PVT, 35, who had been involved in a fight five months before when he believed he had been stabbed in the face

Singaporean Abraham De Laure, 29, was on a flight to Ho Chi Minh City with his friend when he stuck in hand in a cup holder and could not remove it again

Darren Blair's mother Margaret Mills, 65, was told her beloved son was found unconscious after sleeping in a nightclub in Hanoi, Vientam for six hours - but another witness said he was found outside the club with bruises on his face

Hoi An in Vietnam, Mombasa Beach in Kenya, Cape Town in South Africa and Bali in Indonesia are the Post Office's cheapest long haul holiday destinations for 2023

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Nguyenn Hoang Chau is part of a network of super thieves, slaughterhouses and restaurants responsible for the slaughter of a million cats a year in Vietnam

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT An investigation by the Daily Mirror has unveiled the horrors of thousands of cats snatched from their owners in Vietnam before being sold for their meat

Otis Walder-Robb, 12, was pulled from a pool by other children in Vietnam on Frida and tragically died, family friends say as they raise funds to bring him home to Thailand

Five generations of the family helped Ho Thi Yen celebrate her 110th birthday in Hoang Mai Town, Nghe An Province, Vietnam, on Friday January 27