Sources: Bangkok Post
Sri Lankan authorities arrest 30 Chinese and Vietnamese nationals in Colombo in a crackdown on cyberscams in the country, raising the total number of those detained to 261. 2026-05-7
The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to more than 64 people, with 24 others still missing. 2024-09-9
Vietnam imposes "Directive 16", the most stringent social distancing measures so far, in 16 provinces for the next two weeks, amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. 2021-07-19
Vietnam reports a record 3,718 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 47,904. 2021-07-17
The U.S. Justice Department charges two Vietnamese citizens (Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu) and a Canadian (David-Manuel Santos Da Silva) with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole one billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products of Adobe Systems Inc with the hacking having occurred between February 2009 and June 2012. The victim breaches include a massive 2011 attack on email marketing firm Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp. Although the other two are in custody, Nguyen remains at large. The charge against Da Silva is conspiracy to commit money laundering. 2015-03-6
Flooding in Vietnam has killed at least 28 people with nine more missing and nearly 80,000 displaced. 2013-11-17
Vietnam: The government mobilizes over 453,000 soldiers and militia members, and thousands of means of transport to cope with Typhoon Haiyan that is forecast to hit central region early Sunday. Roughly 20,000 people are evacuated from Da Nang. 2013-11-9
Russian police detain 1,200 illegal Vietnamese migrants in raids in Moscow. 2013-08-1
Doan Van Vuon, a fish farmer who became a cult hero in Vietnam after fighting off an illegal eviction with homemade guns and mines, is jailed for five years for "attempted murder in a case that has stirred public anger over state-backed land grabs." 2013-04-5
At least 24,000 workers at two plants in Vietnam go on strike over pay, bonuses and lunar new year holidays. 2010-12-24