Sources: BBC News
Fourteen people are killed and three others are injured in a building fire in a densely populated area of Hanoi, Vietnam. 2024-05-24
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
The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns China's decision yesterday to establish administrative districts in the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands, saying it violates Vietnam's sovereignty. 2020-04-19
It is suspected that six of the victims are Vietnamese nationals. The family of one of them, a 19-year-old woman, made public her last text message to her parents which she sent while dying. 2019-10-25
Anti-Chinese protests in southern Vietnam about the People's Republic of China deploying an oil rig in a disputed section of the South China Sea degenerate into the burning of up to 15 foreign-owned factories. 2014-05-14
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 accuses China of cutting seismic survey cables from one of its ships in the South China Sea. 2012-12-3
10 people are killed in Vietnam by storms, seven of which were struck by lightning. 2011-06-25
At least 24,000 workers at two plants in Vietnam go on strike over pay, bonuses and lunar new year holidays. 2010-12-24