Sources: BBC News
Thailand extradites Vietnamese citizen Y Quynh Bđăp, who founded a human rights organization for ethnic minorities, amid concerns from human rights groups. 2025-12-1
Six Vietnamese and American people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected cyanide poisoning incident. 2024-07-16
A Da Nang court sentences four South Korean men to imprisonment for smuggling around 200 South Koreans into Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic when the country suspended the entry of all foreigners from 2020 to 2021. 2023-02-16
A military court in Vietnam sentences former deputy defense minister Nguyễn Văn Hiến to four years in prison for allowing three plots of land in Ho Chi Minh City to be illegally transferred from the Navy to private investors. He is also stripped of his Communist Party credentials. 2020-05-21
13 people are killed and four others are injured in a road accident involving a car and a truck in Quang Nam, Vietnam. 2018-07-30
The death toll from heavy floods in Vietnam rises to 27, while seven other people are missing. 2018-07-24
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains kill at least seven people and leave 12 others missing in northern Vietnam. 2018-06-25
Starbucks plans to open a coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, expanding its reach to 12 Asian nations. 2013-01-3
Anti-China protests take place in Vietnam amid tensions over the disputed Spratly Islands part of the South China Sea dispute. 2012-07-8
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng orders an investigation into a guerrilla-style standoff with farmers who laid land mines and firing improvised shotguns amid a land eviction. 2012-01-17