Sources: Reuters
In Vietnam, a fire on a bus travelling from Lâm Đồng province to Ho Chi Minh City kills seven passengers and injures five others. 2026-07-21
At least 38 people are killed, 11 are rescued and eight others are reported missing, including children, when a storm causes the tourist boat "Wonder Sea" to capsize in the Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. 2025-07-19
Vietnam approves a US$67 billion 1541 km high speed rail line from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, which will be an updated version of the North–South express railway proposal. 2024-11-30
Communist Party general secretary and paramount leader of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng dies at the age of 80, and is succeeded on an acting basis by President Tô Lâm. 2024-07-19
Gunmen attack a Vietnamese vessel near Tawi-Tawi, Philippines, killing at least one sailor and abducting seven others, according to the Philippine Coast Guard. Abu Sayyaf militants are suspected of being behind the attack. 2017-02-20
Vietnam reports its first microcephaly case likely to be linked to the Zika virus. 2016-10-30
Voters in Vietnam go to the polls to choose legislators for its Parliament. The only legal party in the country is the Communist Party, which has already chosen its members. 2016-05-22
Lawyer Cù Huy Hà Vũ, one of Vietnam’s most famous dissidents, is released early from prison. Afterwards, he travels to the United States. 2014-04-7
Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong ban poultry imports from the Australian state of Victoria while Japan bans imports from the whole of Australia following an outbreak of a low pathogenic form of the avian influenza (separate from the potentially deadly H5N1 strain).2012-02-1
Nguyễn Phú Trọng is elected as General Secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam to succeed Nông Đức Mạnh. 2011-01-19