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The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 64 people, with 24 others still missing.
2024-09-9

Five people are killed when a helicopter crashes near Hạ Long Bay, Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam.
2023-04-5

Vietnam reports a record 454,197 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, including a record 225,693 new cases in Hanoi, which is the highest single-day total in any municipality or province.
2022-03-12

The Vietnamese health ministry says the country will receive 31 million Pfizer vaccine ​doses this year and also register to buy about 10 million additional doses through COVAX.
2021-05-14

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

China's defense ministry criticizes the United States for allegedly increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing its military presence and supporting Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam in longstanding territorial disputes.
2013-04-16

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

Authorities in Vietnam find a mass grave of North Vietnamese soldiers killed during the Vietnam War 40 years ago.
2011-05-26

Vietnam closes off an ethnic Hmong area that was the scene of rare protests demanding autonomy and religious freedom.
2011-05-6