Sources: BBC News
At least thirteen people are killed and dozens others are missing as Typhoon Bualoi makes landfall in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces, Vietnam. 2025-09-28
A court in Vietnam sentences tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan to death for embezzling $12.46 billion from the Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank. 2024-04-11
At least 56 people are killed and 37 others are injured in a fire at a nine-story apartment building in Hanoi, Vietnam. 2023-09-13
Vietnam approves the Abdala COVID-19 vaccine developed by Cuba, becoming the eighth vaccine to be approved for use in the country. 2021-09-18
Vietnamese authorities launch a plan to conduct COVID-19 testing of up to 1.5 million people in higher-risk areas of Hanoi in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 infections as the capital extends its COVID-19-related restrictions for two more weeks. 2021-09-6
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
Vietnam reports its first microcephaly case likely to be linked to the Zika virus. 2016-10-30
Voters in Vietnam go to the polls to choose legislators for its Parliament. The only legal party in the country is the Communist Party, which has already chosen its members. 2016-05-22
Vietnam elects Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân chairwoman of the National Assembly. Ngân, who won 95.5 percent of the votes, is the first woman to lead Vietnam's legislature. In January, she was re-elected to the powerful Politburo at the Communist Party Congress. 2016-03-31
After a two-year research project conducted by scientists at the National Chemistry Institute of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam becomes the world's tenth country to successfully apply nanotechnology to produce nano curcumin, a substance that can help treat cancer. 2013-10-31