Sources: National Geographic
Eleven people are killed and two others are injured in an arson attack on a bar in Hanoi, Vietnam. 2024-12-18
Six Vietnamese and American people are found dead at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, in a suspected cyanide poisoning incident. 2024-07-16
The United Kingdom and Vietnam sign a free trade agreement, which will take effect on December 31, following a meeting between UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh at the State Guest House in Hanoi, Vietnam. 2020-12-29
At least 24 people die after floods strike across Vietnam. In the south, nearly 3,900 houses and more than 22,000 hectares of crops are submerged, mostly in Lam Dong Province. Floods also damage more than 30km of national roads, including the road leading to the tourist city of Dalat and destroy 142 hectares of aquarium farming and 4,300 cages of river-raised fish. 2019-08-12
Vietnam tightens security at its rail station on the Chinese border ahead of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's visit to Hanoi for his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. 2019-02-21
A major search operation is underway for the "Sunrise-689", a Vietnamese vessel carrying 18 crew members and 5,226 tonnes of oil which lost both radio and radar contact on October 3 40 minutes after its departure from Singapore. 2014-10-7
The Singaporean container ship "Sima Sapphire" collides and sinks a Vietnamese fishing vessel about 50 nautical miles to the south of Vũng Tàu, leaving one dead. 2013-09-16
In response to an outbreak of an unidentified fatal disease in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, the Vietnamese government asks for help from the World Health Organization. 2012-04-22
The poet Liao Yiwu tells the BBC of how he fled China via Vietnam and other countries and arrived in Germany after his struggles with Chinese authorities who have spent decades suppressing his work and imprisoning him. 2011-07-14
Prominent Vietnamese dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu appeals his sentence for "anti-state propaganda". 2011-04-21