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Five students drown while swimming in the Lô River in Phú Thọ province, Vietnam. 2026-05-18
At least nine people are killed and eight others are injured when a bus carrying 19 charity workers overturns on a mountain in Phình Hồ, Lào Cai province, Vietnam. 2025-12-27
The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 64 people, with 24 others still missing. 2024-09-9
A court in Hanoi, Vietnam, sentences two Facebook users to lengthy jail sentences for "conducting propaganda against the state". One man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of house arrest while another man was given a six-year prison term and three years of house arrest. 2021-12-15
Vietnam surpasses 500,000 cases of COVID-19 after reporting a record 14,922 new cases in the past 24 hours. 2021-09-3
Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam for a third five-year term as top leader in Vietnam. 2021-01-31
The two sides meet in the Vatican and discuss bilateral relations, ecclesial life and the future visit of Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The Vietnam — Holy See Joint Working Group first met in 2009. Vietnam, a Communist nation of 97 million, is 7% Catholic. 2019-08-20
Vietnam’s new marriage law goes into effect, abolishing regulations that “prohibit marriage between people of the same sex.” 2015-01-1
Two Vietnamese sailors are shot and wounded in the disputed Spratly Islands. 2011-05-19
Vietnamese soldiers clash with thousands of Hmong Christians in Dien Bien Province demanding religious freedom and autonomy in the northwest of the country, in the worst ethnic unrest in Vietnam in years. The US-based Center for Public Policy Analysis claims that at least 28 protesters were killed and hundreds more were missing, while 3,000 protesters remained at the site, according to officials. [https:--www.bbc.co.uk-news-world-asia-pacific-13284122 (BBC)] [https:--web.archive.org-web-20110716045537-http:--www.straitstimes.com-BreakingNews-SEAsia-Story-STIStory_665607.html (Straits Times)] [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-235516-vietnam-troops-use-force-at-rare-hmong-protest ("Bangkok Post")]date=July 2019 2011-05-5