Drug smuggler  hanging  frays Australia-Singapore friendship

 
  Monsters and Critics.com
December 1, 2005
Sydney

By Sid Astbury

PRIME Minister John Howard is famously good at predicting the mood of Australians and once again he has got it right over death row drug smuggler Nguyen Truong Van and his Friday appointment with Singapore's executioner.

Vietnamese-born Nguyen will be executed in Singapore before dawn Friday for trying to smuggle nearly 400 grams of heroin from Cambodia through Singapore's Changi airport in 2002.

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