Sources: The Straits Times
The Vietnamese National Assembly adopts amendments to its press and state secrets laws that expand government authority to compel journalists to disclose sources and broaden the range of information classified as state secrets. 2025-12-10
Vietnam reports a record 9,716 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 265,464. 2021-08-14
Vietnam reports a record of 515 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 12,014. 2021-06-17
Vietnam reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant in a 25-year-old man from South Africa who travelled to Hanoi on December 19 and tested positive for COVID-19 four days later while in quarantine. 2021-01-31
A court in Vietnam sentences three freelance journalists to between 11 and 15 years in prison for anti-state propaganda, criticising the government and "infringing the interests of the Communist Party", among other convictions. 2021-01-5
Vietnam agrees to buy 30 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine. 2021-01-4
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
Vietnam's civil aviation authority grounds all Pakistani pilots flying for Vietnamese airlines, as global aviation regulators respond to revelations by Pakistani authorities that more than 250 pilots obtaining licences fraudulently. 2020-06-30
Hundreds of people are hospitalised after an extreme cold spell in northern Vietnam that has also killed thousands of cows and buffaloes. 2011-01-17
Vietnamese human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh is convicted on charges of subversion and sentenced to five years in prison. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-asia-pacific-8470110.stm (BBC)] [http:--vietnamnews.vnanet.vn-showarticle.php?num=04SOC200110 ("Vietnam News")] [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-165971-vietnam-dissidents-jailed-up-to-16-years-for-subversion ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019 2010-01-20