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Vietnam announces a $24 billion rescue for the Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank, which is currently involved in a fraud case.
2024-04-17

Vietnam reports a record 737 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,277.
2021-08-22

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

The German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reports that last year’s visit of the Vietnamese public security minister and his entourage to Slovakia was used to cover for the abduction of a dissident Vietnamese entrepreneur Trịnh Xuân Thanh who had previously emigrated to Germany.
2018-04-30

The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Damrey reaches 27, another 22 are missing.
2017-11-5

Flights are cancelled and evacuations are ordered for over 100,000 people in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, in preparation for Typhoon Doksuri. The system has already claimed four lives passing over the Philippines.
2017-09-14

Vietnam reelects conservative Nguyễn Phú Trọng as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, a member of the Politburo, is expected to replace Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as prime minister. Dũng is not eligible for another term.
2016-01-27

Vietnamese lawmakers approve a law allowing broad foreign ownership of property, as the government seeks to boost an ailing real-estate market and accelerate growth. [http:--www.afr.com-p-world-vietnam_relaxes_foreign_land_ownership_8NFO2wC6e4aWVLVmOo8TfJ (Financial Review)]date=August 2019
2014-11-26

Three people drown and six are missing after a boat taking people home from an engagement ceremony capsized in northern Vietnam.
2011-01-13