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Vietnam's top leader, Tô Lâm, is re-elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the one-party state.
2026-01-23

Vietnam reports a record 8,649 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 137,062.
2021-07-30

A landslide caused by heavy rain in central Vietnam hits an army barracks, killing at least 14 soldiers and leaving others missing.
2020-10-18

The two sides meet in the Vatican and discuss bilateral relations, ecclesial life and the future visit of Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The Vietnam — Holy See Joint Working Group first met in 2009. Vietnam, a Communist nation of 97 million, is 7% Catholic.
2019-08-20

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un begins an official visit to Vietnam, three days after arriving in the country for a nuclear summit with U.S. President Donald Trump that ended in deadlock.
2019-03-1

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrives in Vietnam, ahead of his two-day summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in the capital Hanoi.
2019-02-25

30 people are to be executed in Vietnam for smuggling drugs.
2014-01-20

Taiwan plans to expand a pier on one of the disputed Spratly Islands, parts of which are also claimed by Vietnam, Brunei, China, Malaysia and the Philippines, as the other claimants strengthen military deployment in the South China Sea.
2013-04-7

United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visits a former U.S. base in Cam Ranh Bay, the first visit by an American official of cabinet rank to Vietnam since the Vietnam War.
2012-06-3