Sources: Vietnam News
Air quality technology company IQAir reports that Hanoi, Vietnam, has the worst air pollution of any city on Earth, with levels of hazardous small particles, known as PM2.5, measured at 266 micrograms per cubic metre. 2025-01-3
Vietnam reports its first locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in 35 days, in four members of a family from Hà Nam Province and one person from Ho Chi Minh City. 2021-04-29
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
During the State of the Union speech, President Trump announced he will meet with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un in Vietnam on February 27 and 28. 2019-02-5
Indonesia executes six people for drug trafficking including foreign citizens from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Vietnam. Brazil and the Netherlands withdraw their ambassadors in protest. 2015-01-18
China says it will open disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea to tourism before the May Day holiday, a move to which Vietnam is strongly opposed, as the United States expresses concern. 2013-04-7
Vietnam's Mekong River delta suffers its worst flooding in a decade, with 43 people killed and 70,000 homes destroyed. 2011-10-13
The death toll from a tropical storm kills 22 people in Vietnam. [http:--www.straitstimes.com-BreakingNews-SEAsia-Story-STIStory_685266.html ("The Straits Times")]date=August 2019 2011-06-29
Prominent Vietnamese dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu appeals his sentence for "anti-state propaganda". 2011-04-21
At least 24,000 workers at two plants in Vietnam go on strike over pay, bonuses and lunar new year holidays. 2010-12-24