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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

Around 40 people die in Vietnam and Cambodia as Tropical Storm Nangka impacts the area. Scores of others, including rescue workers, are missing. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc orders more rescue troops to be sent to the region.
2020-10-13

A military court in Vietnam sentences former deputy defense minister Nguyễn Văn Hiến to four years in prison for allowing three plots of land in Ho Chi Minh City to be illegally transferred from the Navy to private investors. He is also stripped of his Communist Party credentials.
2020-05-21

Cambodia and Vietnam fail to agree on a resolution regarding their border dispute.
2016-09-1

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

Landslides and flooding caused by Typhoon Vicente kill seven people in northern Vietnam.
2012-07-27

Vietnam unveils a five year plan to tackle widespread prostitution in the country.
2011-05-13

Vietnam closes off an ethnic Hmong area that was the scene of rare protests demanding autonomy and religious freedom.
2011-05-6

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees urges Cambodia to allow more time to resettle Vietnamese refugees after it announced the closure of a refugee camp.
2010-12-14

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