Sources: The Straits Times
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's trip to Vietnam from Singapore is postponed for several hours following reports of cases of Havana syndrome in Hanoi. Additionally, two other U.S. staff are evacuated from the country. 2021-08-24
Vietnam reports a record 5,926 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 53,830. 2021-07-18
The government of Vietnam reports that it has culled more than 100,000 poultry in 14 provinces so far this year in a bid to contain the spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 and H5N6 bird flu strains. 2021-02-8
Vietnam tightens security at its rail station on the Chinese border ahead of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's visit to Hanoi for his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. 2019-02-21
The German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reports that last year’s visit of the Vietnamese public security minister and his entourage to Slovakia was used to cover for the abduction of a dissident Vietnamese entrepreneur Trịnh Xuân Thanh who had previously emigrated to Germany. 2018-04-30
Six Vietnamese sailors are kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf off the coast of the Philippines. 2016-11-12
The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun rises to 26 in southern China and 11 in northern Vietnam. 2014-07-21
Taiwan plans to expand a pier on one of the disputed Spratly Islands, parts of which are also claimed by Vietnam, Brunei, China, Malaysia and the Philippines, as the other claimants strengthen military deployment in the South China Sea. 2013-04-7
Flood waters in Vietnam's Hà Tĩnh Province sweep away a bus with 20 people missing, presumed dead. 2010-10-18
A proposal to develop nuclear energy is discussed at an energy policy meeting held by Asean in Da Lat, Vietnam. 2010-07-22