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Vietnam reports a record 1,953 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 29,816.
2021-07-11

Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations sign the world's largest free-trade agreement in Vietnam. It replaces the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from which the administration of Donald Trump withdrew the United States in early 2017.
2020-11-15

A landslide caused by heavy rain in central Vietnam hits an army barracks, killing at least 14 soldiers and leaving others missing.
2020-10-18

In the third case this month, and the second this week, a court in Vietnam convicts and sentences a Facebook user to nine years in prison for defaming the ruling Communist Party and government.
2019-11-28

The United States partially lifts a long-time ban on lethal weapon sales to Vietnam to help it improve maritime security, a historic move that comes nearly 40 years after the end of the Vietnam War.
2014-10-2

Lawyer Cù Huy Hà Vũ, one of Vietnam’s most famous dissidents, is released early from prison. Afterwards, he travels to the United States.
2014-04-7

McDonald's opens their first restaurant within Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.
2014-02-8

In talks in Manila, the Philippines and Vietnam agree to work together on a framework for resolving maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
2013-08-1

Vietnam’s Minister of Justice, Hà Hùng Cường, becomes the second government minister after the Health Minister to back plans to legalize same-sex marriage in Vietnam when he submits a draft of an amended Law on Marriage and Family to the government.
2013-07-30

Hundreds of people in Vietnam take part in a rare demonstration against Chinese naval operations in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
2011-06-5