Sources: BBC News
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health issues a conditional approval of the Hayat-Vax COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the country. 2021-09-10
Vietnam surpasses 20,000 cases of COVID-19 after a record 1,102 new cases are reported in the past 24 hours. 2021-07-5
The USS "Carl Vinson" enters Vietnam's Da Nang Port, becoming the first U.S. aircraft carrier to visit a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War in 1975. The visit comes amid tensions in the region with China. 2018-03-5
The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Damrey reaches 27, another 22 are missing. 2017-11-5
Floods and landslides in Yên Bái and Hòa Bình provinces in Vietnam kill at least 54 people with 39 more missing. 2017-10-12
Vietnamese authorities confirm that a shipment of Vietnamese-owned air-to-air missile parts bound for Ukraine was detained by Finland on June 24 after raising concerns the consignment of military hardware violated arms-export regulations. 2014-07-25
Flooding in Vietnam has killed at least 28 people with nine more missing and nearly 80,000 displaced. 2013-11-17
After receiving orders from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is now on his visit program to China and Vietnam, Indonesian Public Welfare Minister Agung Laksono declares an emergency response. 2010-10-26
ASEAN formally invites Russia and the United States to attend the East Asia Summit and urges Myanmar to hold free and fair elections in a foreign ministers meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. 2010-07-20
Vietnamese author Pham Thanh Nghien, who criticised the ruling Communist Party, is sentenced to four years in prison for spreading propaganda against the state. 2010-01-29