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Vietnam reports a record 7,307 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 81,678.
2021-07-23

Vietnam reverses an international flight suspension imposed in Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, which was originally supposed to end on June 7, and in Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport, which was originally supposed to end on June 14.
2021-06-2

A court in Vietnam sentences former information minister Nguyen Bac Son to life in prison after finding him guilty of accepting $3 million in kickbacks via an overpriced purchase of Audio Visual Global JSC for nearly 8.9 trillion dong ($383.7 million) in late 2015 by government-owned company MobiFone.
2019-12-28

North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un is to arrive in Vietnam on February 25 ahead of the second summit meeting between the two leaders on February 27–28 in Hanoi.
2019-02-16

Thailand authorities investigate what could be the first cases of Zika virus-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia.
2016-09-27

The United States declares a public health emergency in Puerto Rico over an outbreak of the Zika virus which has infected nearly 11,000 people.
2016-08-12

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that the Zika virus causes birth defects like microcephaly.
2016-04-13

Brazilian health officials announce 2,400 babies (up from 147 in 2014) have been born this year with microcephaly, a neurological disorder that can result in incomplete brain development which can be caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and advise would-be parents, especially in the country's northeast where most of the cases occurred, to avoid pregnancy.
2015-12-23

At least 17 people are killed in a fire at a shoe factory in the Vietnamese city of Hai Phong.
2011-07-30

Flood waters in Vietnam's Hà Tĩnh Province sweep away a bus with 20 people missing, presumed dead.
2010-10-18