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A court in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, upholds the death penalty for real estate tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan after Lan was found guilty of embezzling $12.5 billion through the Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank.
2024-12-3

At least 32 people are killed in a karaoke bar fire in Binh Duong, Vietnam.
2022-09-6

Vietnam approves the emergency use of the American Moderna and Russian Sputnik V vaccines.
2021-02-26

Floods in Vietnam's Hà Giang province result in at least five deaths and damage more than 2,800 houses.
2020-07-22

Tropical Storm Son-Tinh kills 20 people, injures 14 more and leaves at least 16 missing in Vietnam.
2018-07-21

Flights are cancelled and evacuations are ordered for over 100,000 people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, in preparation for Typhoon Doksuri. The system has already claimed four lives passing over the Philippines.
2017-09-14

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

At least 24,000 workers at two plants in Vietnam go on strike over pay, bonuses and lunar new year holidays.
2010-12-24

Flood waters in Vietnam's Hà Tĩnh Province sweep away a bus with 20 people missing, presumed dead.
2010-10-18

The United States and Vietnam celebrate the 15th anniversary of diplomatic relations by conducting what the United States describes as a "series of naval engagement activities" in the South China Sea, risking a disagreement with China.
2010-08-10