Sources: AP via Google News
The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi's impact on the Philippines rises to at least 142, with 127 others missing. The storm has left the country's territory and made landfall in central Vietnam. 2025-11-6
Four people are killed and at least 78 people are injured by Typhoon Yagi in Hải Dương and Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam, as it makes landfall in Hanoi. 2024-09-7
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's trip to Vietnam from Singapore is postponed for several hours following reports of cases of Havana syndrome in Hanoi. Additionally, two other U.S. staff are evacuated from the country. 2021-08-24
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
Floods in Vietnam killed 23 people (16 in Lai Chau, 5 in Ha Giang Province while two others in other provinces) and caused several damages. 2018-06-23
Vietnam pledges on ending the trafficking and farming of bears. 2017-07-19
Seven people are killed in a border clash between illegal Chinese migrants and Vietnamese security forces at Quang Ninh province. 2014-04-18
Vietnam's Mekong River delta suffers its worst flooding in a decade, with 43 people killed and 70,000 homes destroyed. 2011-10-13
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