Sources: AP via Google News
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
Vietnam receives their first shipment of 117,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine from South Korea. 2021-02-24
Around 40 people die in Vietnam and Cambodia as Tropical Storm Nangka impacts the area. Scores of others, including rescue workers, are missing. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc orders more rescue troops to be sent to the region. 2020-10-13
Vietnam tightens security at its rail station on the Chinese border ahead of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's visit to Hanoi for his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. 2019-02-21
Japan has delivered two more ships to Vietnam that will be refurbished into patrol boats. The ships, which arrived in the port city of Da Nang, are the second delivery of a 2014 deal in which Tokyo is to provide Vietnam with six used fishing vessels that will be converted into patrol boats for Vietnam's coast guard in the South China Sea. 2015-11-3
The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun rises to 26 in southern China and 11 in northern Vietnam. 2014-07-21
More than 3,000 Chinese citizens are evacuated from Vietnam, with two Chinese killed and more than 100 injured in the riot last week following China drilling for oil in the South China Sea. 2014-05-18
China imposes a "fishing permit" rule in the South China Sea, much to the chagrin of the United States, the Philippines, and Vietnam. 2014-01-10
Vietnam claims that the People's Republic of China has assaulted Vietnamese fishermen in disputed waters in the South China Sea. 2012-03-1
The poet Liao Yiwu tells the BBC of how he fled China via Vietnam and other countries and arrived in Germany after his struggles with Chinese authorities who have spent decades suppressing his work and imprisoning him. 2011-07-14