Sources: Bangkok Post
Vietnam reports its first three locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City. 2022-01-19
Vietnam's strictest social distancing measures are imposed in Hanoi for the next 15 days under "Directive 16" which requires people to stay home except for essential reasons in order to prevent further spread of COVID-19. 2021-07-24
Landslides and flash floods caused by Typhoon Molave leave at least 35 people dead and over 50 others missing in central Vietnam. 2020-10-29
An Indonesian maritime patrol boat, the "KM Hiu Macan 001", intercepts five boats and arrested 55 Vietnamese crew members for allegedly poaching off Natuna Islands, but after an unexpected aggressive intervention by Vietnamese coast guards forces the Indonesian authorities to back off, release the arrested men and return to base empty handed. 2017-05-21
The Philippines commemorates the anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) which destroyed much of the city of Tacloban. 2014-11-7
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
Hundreds of Hmong people are reportedly forced into hiding in north-west Vietnam, after security forces disperse thousands awaiting the supposed Second Coming of Christ. 2011-05-21
Prominent Vietnamese dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu appeals his sentence for "anti-state propaganda". 2011-04-21
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