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Vietnam is releasing more than 8000 prisoners as part of a regular presidential amnesty. Those to be released include 13 foreigners convicted of various crimes, including drug trafficking, human trafficking and fraud.
Among them are eight Chinese citizens, two from Singapore, one Laotian, one Malaysian and one Cambodian. President Nguyen Minh Triet also granted amnesty to 11 unidentified Vietnamese convicted of unspecified national security crimes.
