Sources: AP via Google News
Vietnam approves a US$67 billion 1541 km high speed rail line from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, which will be an updated version of the North–South express railway proposal. 2024-11-30
Vietnam lifts its COVID-19-related curbs on international passenger flights with no limitation on the number of flights in order to restore the travel to pre-pandemic level. 2022-02-15
The USS "Carl Vinson" enters Vietnam's Da Nang Port, becoming the first U.S. aircraft carrier to visit a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War in 1975. The visit comes amid tensions in the region with China. 2018-03-5
The Singaporean container ship "Sima Sapphire" collides and sinks a Vietnamese fishing vessel about 50 nautical miles to the south of Vũng Tàu, leaving one dead. 2013-09-16
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
Hundreds of Hmong people are reportedly forced into hiding in north-west Vietnam, after security forces disperse thousands awaiting the supposed Second Coming of Christ. 2011-05-21
The death toll from floods in central Vietnam rises to at least forty-nine. 2010-10-6
Typhoon Conson makes landfall near Hai Phong, Vietnam, after devastating Southern China and the Philippines with at least 65 dead. 2010-07-17