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The National Assembly of Vietnam elects Phạm Minh Chính as the country's 10th Prime Minister, with 96% of the vote.
2021-04-5

Nguyễn Xuân Phúc is elected as the 11th President, with 97.5% of the vote. He is the country's first former Prime Minister to be elected President.
2021-04-5

Around 468,000 people are to be evacuated in Vietnam ahead of the landfall of Typhoon Vamco, which has already killed 53 people in the Philippines. Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc warns people of the seriousness of the storm.
2020-11-14

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

The National Assembly of Vietnam approves Nguyễn Xuân Phúc as the country's new prime minister, succeeding Nguyễn Tấn Dũng.
2016-04-7

Vietnam reelects conservative Nguyễn Phú Trọng as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, a member of the Politburo, is expected to replace Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as prime minister. Dũng is not eligible for another term.
2016-01-27

Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyễn Tấn Dũng says that his government is considering legal action against China over an oil rig that was deployed in waters that Vietnam claims.
2014-05-22

Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyễn Tấn Dũng initiates the construction of Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện Bridge in Haiphong which will become the longest sea bridge in Vietnam as well as Southeast Asia.
2014-02-15

McDonald's announces that it will open its first outlet in Vietnam early next year, which will be in Ho Chi Minh City, and will be operated by Henry Nguyen, a Vietnamese businessman and the son-in-law of Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng.
2013-07-16

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng orders an investigation into a guerrilla-style standoff with farmers who laid land mines and firing improvised shotguns amid a land eviction.
2012-01-17