Sources: AP via Google News
Vietnam reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from the United Kingdom on December 19. 2021-12-28
Vietnam reports a record 12,096 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 377,245. 2021-08-25
North Korea says it will resume working-level nuclear talks with the United States, reviving a denuclearization process that has remained stalled since a February summit in Vietnam ended without a deal. 2019-10-1
The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. 2015-04-16
The Ministry of Transport of Vietnam orders local airports and airlines to tighten their security, after the Malaysian plane vanished, on the first level of a three-level security alert system. 2014-03-9
Thieves steal six antiques worth billions of VND ($94 thousand) displayed at Hòa Khiêm Palace in Tomb of King Tự Ðức in Huế, Vietnam. 2013-11-8
Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain kill at least 29 people in northern and central Vietnam. 2012-09-10
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy is sentenced "in absentia" to 10 years' imprisonment for altering maps to show that Vietnam was encroaching on Cambodian territory. 2010-09-23
As many as half a million pilgrims from 35 nations, including India, China and Vietnam, attend open-air Mass at Fátima, Portugal, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope criticises abortion and same-sex marriage in a speech. 2010-05-13
Google says thousands of internet users in Vietnam have been spied on with malicious software, appearing to target opponents of bauxite mining in the country. 2010-03-31