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A court in Hanoi, Vietnam, sentences two Facebook users to lengthy jail sentences for "conducting propaganda against the state". One man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of house arrest while another man was given a six-year prison term and three years of house arrest.
2021-12-15

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

Vietnamese authorities launch a plan to conduct COVID-19 testing of up to 1.5 million people in higher-risk areas of Hanoi in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 infections as the capital extends its COVID-19-related restrictions for two more weeks.
2021-09-6

At least 15 people are dead and 21 others injured in a bus accident near Phong Nha, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam. Some local officials said that the driver had possibly lost control when making a turn.
2020-07-26

A court in Vietnam sentences a Facebook user to six years in prison for anti-state posts on the social media. It is the latest case seen as a crackdown on government dissidents.
2019-11-26

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls for North Korea to follow Vietnam's path in overcoming past hostilities with the United States.
2018-07-8

Chinese police shoot dead two ethnic Uighurs in Pingxiang, Guangxi while they attempt to cross into Vietnam after members of their group resisted arrest with knives. The public security ministry accuses a separatist group of orchestrating hundreds of cases of human smuggling.
2015-01-18

Vietnam files an intervention in the arbitration case about the South China Sea with Vietnam rejecting China's claims.
2014-12-13

17 people are killed by Tropical Storm Haima in northern Vietnam.
2011-06-27

Lunar Tet New Year holiday road accidents killed almost 300, injured 400 people in Vietnam. Most of the crashes involved alcohol.
2010-02-20