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Vietnam reports a record 1,953 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 29,816.
2021-07-11

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

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

Typhoon Damrey kills at least 19 people in Vietnam, a week before the country is set to host APEC Vietnam 2017.
2017-11-4

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

Voters in Vietnam go to the polls to choose legislators for its Parliament. The only legal party in the country is the Communist Party, which has already chosen its members.
2016-05-22

At least seven mourners are killed and 37 are injured as a bridge collapses as they are transporting a coffin in Vietnam's Lai Chau Province.
2014-02-24

Vietnam claims that the People's Republic of China has assaulted Vietnamese fishermen in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
2012-03-1

Nine people are killed after a train crashes into a minibus in Hanoi, Vietnam.
2011-03-31

The United States and Vietnam celebrate the 15th anniversary of diplomatic relations by conducting what the United States describes as a "series of naval engagement activities" in the South China Sea, risking a disagreement with China.
2010-08-10