Sources: AP via Google News
Fourteen people are killed and three others are injured in a building fire in a densely populated area of Hanoi, Vietnam. 2024-05-24
Vietnam announces that it will ban the upcoming American film "Barbie" over a scene showing a map displaying the nine-dash line in the South China Sea, which Vietnam does not recognize. 2023-07-3
Vietnam surpasses 500,000 cases of COVID-19 after reporting a record 14,922 new cases in the past 24 hours. 2021-09-3
Vietnam announces that it plans to postpone the Southeast Asia Games, one of the five subregional Games of the Olympic Council of Asia, until next year, citing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight of the 11 member states of the Southeast Asian Games Federation have objected to Vietnam's proposal to postpone the competition, according to a statement from the Olympic Council of Malaysia. 2021-06-9
Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations sign the world's largest free-trade agreement in Vietnam. It replaces the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from which the administration of Donald Trump withdrew the United States in early 2017. 2020-11-15
Vietnam says a Chinese vessel rammed into and sank one of its fishing boats near disputed islands in the South China Sea. More than 20 Vietnamese fishing boats have been attacked by Chinese vessels this year causing tensions between both countries. 2015-10-15
Russian police detain 1,200 illegal Vietnamese migrants in raids in Moscow. 2013-08-1
Hundreds of people in Vietnam take part in a rare demonstration against Chinese naval operations in disputed waters in the South China Sea. 2011-06-5
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