SINGAPORE has announced it will hang 22-year-old Tong Ching-man on Friday - its third execution of a Hong Kong resident this year.
The Singapore Government sent a telegram to Tong's family at Tai Po late on Thursday advising them of the execution date.
Tong, convicted of drug trafficking, was 18 when she was arrested at Singapore's Changi airport while travelling from Hong Kong to Brussels in December 1988.
She will be the second Hong Kong woman to hang in Singapore this year after Angel Mou Pui-peng, 25, was executed on January 6, again for drug offences.
Tong was discovered wearing a specially-made vest with pockets containing 1.47 kilograms of heroin worth more than $10 million. Her appeal against conviction was dismissed last June.