Sources: National Geographic
Vietnam reports its first three locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City. 2022-01-19
Vietnam reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from the United Kingdom on December 19. 2021-12-28
Vietnam reports a record 12,096 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 377,245. 2021-08-25
Vietnam reports a record 738 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 15,152. 2021-06-26
The National Assembly of Vietnam elects Phạm Minh Chính as the country's 10th Prime Minister, with 96% of the vote. 2021-04-5
The death toll in Vietnam, from Typhoon Sarika, rises to at least 31 people. 2016-10-18
Vietnam’s Minister of Justice, Hà Hùng Cường, becomes the second government minister after the Health Minister to back plans to legalize same-sex marriage in Vietnam when he submits a draft of an amended Law on Marriage and Family to the government. 2013-07-30
Starbucks plans to open a coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, expanding its reach to 12 Asian nations. 2013-01-3
Vietnam said that a Chinese fishing boat had purposefully torn away a seismic research cable laid by Vietnam's Petrovietnam oil company inside Vietnam’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. 2011-06-10
A court in Vietnam sentences a former Communist Party member to eight years in jail for posting articles on the Internet calling for multi-party democracy. 2011-01-26