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The Hanoi People's Court in Vietnam sentences Bamboo Airways chairman and real estate business tycoon Trinh Van Quyet to 21 years in prison for defrauding investors of 3.6 trillion VNĐ (US$144 million).
2024-08-5

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

Iranian state media reports that the United States Navy attempted to capture an Iranian oil tanker. The oil tanker was boarded, commandeered and then returned by Iranian NEDSA marines in a helicopter operation. U.S. officials refute the report, saying that the Iranians had captured a Vietnamese flagged tanker and that U.S. forces were monitoring the situation.
2021-11-3

North Korea says it will resume working-level nuclear talks with the United States, reviving a denuclearization process that has remained stalled since a February summit in Vietnam ended without a deal.
2019-10-1

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un begins an official visit to Vietnam, three days after arriving in the country for a nuclear summit with U.S. President Donald Trump that ended in deadlock.
2019-03-1

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency claims a Vietnamese fishing vessel tried to ram one of their boats when they tried to detain it for illegally entering and fishing from Malaysian waters.
2018-03-31

Vietnam reports its first microcephaly case likely to be linked to the Zika virus.
2016-10-30

Vietnam: The government mobilizes over 453,000 soldiers and militia members, and thousands of means of transport to cope with Typhoon Haiyan that is forecast to hit central region early Sunday. Roughly 20,000 people are evacuated from Da Nang.
2013-11-9

Voters in Vietnam go to the polls for a parliamentary election.
2011-05-22

Insurgency in Laos: A human rights group accuses Laos and Vietnam of killing four Hmong Christians.
2011-04-16