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 closes schools in 22 provinces ahead of the Tết holiday and ends a Communist Party congress early following the detection of a new cluster of COVID-19 cases in northern areas. 2021-02-1
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
Chinese police shoot dead two ethnic Uighurs in Pingxiang, Guangxi while they attempt to cross into Vietnam after members of their group resisted arrest with knives. The public security ministry accuses a separatist group of orchestrating hundreds of cases of human smuggling. 2015-01-18
30 people are to be executed in Vietnam for smuggling drugs. 2014-01-20
Police in Vietnam break up anti-China protests over gas and oil claims in the South China Sea. 2012-12-9
Three bloggers in Vietnam are sentenced to four, ten and twelve years' imprisonment for "anti-state propaganda". 2012-09-24
Two Vietnamese sailors are shot and wounded in the disputed Spratly Islands. 2011-05-19
Police in Vietnam detain prominent government critic Cu Huy Ha Vu on charges of "propaganda against the state". 2010-11-7
Vietnamese author Pham Thanh Nghien, who criticised the ruling Communist Party, is sentenced to four years in prison for spreading propaganda against the state. 2010-01-29