Sources: Bangkok Post
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 their toughest lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City, prohibiting people from leaving their homes and also deploying the Vietnamese People's Army in order to enforce the lockdown in the country's largest city amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths. 2021-08-23
Vietnam reports a record 738 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 15,152. 2021-06-26
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains kill at least seven people and leave 12 others missing in northern Vietnam. 2018-06-25
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
China imposes a "fishing permit" rule in the South China Sea, much to the chagrin of the United States, the Philippines, and Vietnam. 2014-01-10
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
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