Hanoi, June 24 -- As the Mekong region continues to face growing threats from transnational drug trafficking, Vietnam has stepped up cooperation with neighbouring countries to strengthen intelligence sharing, conduct joint investigations and disrupt criminal networks operating across borders. Stretching from China through Myanmar and Laos to Vietnam, the Mekong corridor remains one of Asia's major hotspots for synthetic drugs. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), transnational criminal groups have expanded industrial-scale drug production in recent years while establishing increasingly sophisticated trafficking routes for narcotics and precursor chemicals. The agency reported that seizures of synthetic drugs ...