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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 receives the first batch consisting 811,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine distributed through COVAX scheme.
2021-04-1

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 death toll in Vietnam, from Typhoon Sarika, rises to at least 31 people.
2016-10-18

Cambodia and Vietnam fail to agree on a resolution regarding their border dispute.
2016-09-1

Vietnam is reported to be preparing for a possible military conflict with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea.
2015-12-20

Vietnamese authorities confirm that a shipment of Vietnamese-owned air-to-air missile parts bound for Ukraine was detained by Finland on June 24 after raising concerns the consignment of military hardware violated arms-export regulations.
2014-07-25

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

Vietnam's Mekong River delta suffers its worst flooding in a decade, with 43 people killed and 70,000 homes destroyed.
2011-10-13

Vietnam holds a live fire drill in the South China Sea amid a dispute with China.
2011-06-13