Sources: National Geographic
Vietnam's top leader, Tô Lâm, is re-elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the most powerful position in the one-party state. 2026-01-23
Three people are killed in floods and landslides in Hà Giang province, Vietnam. 2024-06-10
Vietnam reports a record of 515 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 12,014. 2021-06-17
Vietnam agrees to buy 30 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine. 2021-01-4
Vietnam reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 when a 44-year-old woman who traveled from the United Kingdom later tested positive for COVID-19 while in quarantine on December 24. 2021-01-2
13 people are killed and four others are injured in a road accident involving a car and a truck in Quang Nam, Vietnam. 2018-07-30
Thousands of Vietnamese workers stage anti-China protests in front of factories with Chinese names over Beijing's decision to locate an oil rig in waters of the South China Sea also claimed by Hanoi. 2014-05-13
McDonald's opens their first restaurant within Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. 2014-02-8
All tourism activities at Hoàng Liên National Park and to the Fansipan mountain in Vietnam's Lào Cai Province have been suspended until the end of March to reduce the risk of forest fires caused by cold weather and a lack of rain. 2014-01-28
Google says thousands of internet users in Vietnam have been spied on with malicious software, appearing to target opponents of bauxite mining in the country. 2010-03-31