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Twelve people in Şanlıurfa and two in Adıyaman, Turkey, are killed by floods caused by heavy rain.
2023-03-15

Vietnam's strictest social distancing measures are imposed in Hanoi for the next 15 days under "Directive 16" which requires people to stay home except for essential reasons in order to prevent further spread of COVID-19.
2021-07-24

Vietnam reports a record 2,924 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 37,343.
2021-07-14

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns China's decision yesterday to establish administrative districts in the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands, saying it violates Vietnam's sovereignty.
2020-04-19

A court in Vietnam sentences former information minister Nguyen Bac Son to life in prison after finding him guilty of accepting $3 million in kickbacks via an overpriced purchase of Audio Visual Global JSC for nearly 8.9 trillion dong ($383.7 million) in late 2015 by government-owned company MobiFone.
2019-12-28

The USS "Carl Vinson" enters Vietnam's Da Nang Port, becoming the first U.S. aircraft carrier to visit a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War in 1975. The visit comes amid tensions in the region with China.
2018-03-5

Vietnam: The government mobilizes over 453,000 soldiers and militia members, and thousands of means of transport to cope with Typhoon Haiyan that is forecast to hit central region early Sunday. Roughly 20,000 people are evacuated from Da Nang.
2013-11-9

Three bloggers in Vietnam are sentenced to four, ten and twelve years' imprisonment for "anti-state propaganda".
2012-09-24

Landslides and flooding caused by Typhoon Vicente kill seven people in northern Vietnam.
2012-07-27

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees starts an emergency airlift to Benin which is suffering its worst flooding in decade.
2010-10-24