Sources: BBC News
Four police officers are killed and two others are injured in shootings at two police stations in Cư Kuin, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam. Sixteen people are arrested. 2023-06-11
Around 468,000 people are to be evacuated in Vietnam ahead of the landfall of Typhoon Vamco, which has already killed 53 people in the Philippines. Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc warns people of the seriousness of the storm. 2020-11-14
Floods in Vietnam's Hà Giang province result in at least five deaths and damage more than 2,800 houses. 2020-07-22
The German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reports that last year’s visit of the Vietnamese public security minister and his entourage to Slovakia was used to cover for the abduction of a dissident Vietnamese entrepreneur Trịnh Xuân Thanh who had previously emigrated to Germany. 2018-04-30
30 people are to be executed in Vietnam for smuggling drugs. 2014-01-20
The death toll from an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam reaches 156 with 96,000 people having been sick with the disease as at the end of November 2011. 2011-12-16
The Australian Federal Police charges six senior executives, all former employees of two companies owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia, Securency and Note Printing Australia, in relation to alleged bribery of officials in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia. 2011-07-1
Authorities in Vietnam find a mass grave of North Vietnamese soldiers killed during the Vietnam War 40 years ago. 2011-05-26
Hundreds of Hmong people are reportedly forced into hiding in north-west Vietnam, after security forces disperse thousands awaiting the supposed Second Coming of Christ. 2011-05-21
Vietnamese human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh is convicted on charges of subversion and sentenced to five years in prison. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-asia-pacific-8470110.stm (BBC)] [http:--vietnamnews.vnanet.vn-showarticle.php?num=04SOC200110 ("Vietnam News")] [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-165971-vietnam-dissidents-jailed-up-to-16-years-for-subversion ("Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019 2010-01-20