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Germany reclassifies the United States, Israel, Turkey, Kenya, Montenegro and Vietnam as "high risk" COVID-19 areas, triggering mandatory 10-day quarantines for unvaccinated travellers unless they can show a negative test after five days. The changes will be in effect from August 17 for Turkey and from August 15 for the rest of the countries.
2021-08-13

Vietnam confirms 18 new cases, the highest number of local transmitted cases in 24 hours since March.
2020-07-28

The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Damrey reaches 27, another 22 are missing.
2017-11-5

Vietnam pledges on ending the trafficking and farming of bears.
2017-07-19

Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).
2012-02-1

Vietnam unveils a five year plan to tackle widespread prostitution in the country.
2011-05-13

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy is sentenced "in absentia" to 10 years' imprisonment for altering maps to show that Vietnam was encroaching on Cambodian territory.
2010-09-23

A Cambodian court issues an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy, for failing to turn up at court over a border dispute with Vietnam. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-1-hi-world-asia-pacific-8436851.stm (BBC)] [http:--www.phnompenhpost.com-index.php-2010010130589-National-news-opposition-leader-repudiates-political-charges-against-him.html ("Phnom Penh Post")]date=August 2019
2010-01-1