2025 in Vietnam

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Events in the year 2025 in Vietnam .

Incumbents

• General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam – Tô Lâm
• President of Vietnam – Lương Cường
• Prime Minister of Vietnam – Phạm Minh Chính
• Chairman of the National Assembly – Trần Thanh Mẫn

Events

February

• February 21 – A bus crashes into a back of a tractor in Son La Province, killing six people and injuring eight others. ^[1]

March

• March 28 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake with an epicenter in Myanmar shakes multiple areas of Vietnam, damaging 400 apartments in Ho Chi Minh City and indirectly killing one person in the city's District 8. ^[2]

April

• April 4 – In a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on 4 April, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Tô Lâm offers a "0%" tariff on American goods in exchange for lowering and eliminating tariffs against Vietnam. ^[3]

May

• May 19 – Beauty queen Nguyễn Thúc Thùy Tiên is arrested for consumer fraud after promoting a counterfeit fiber supplement on social media. ^[4]
• May 21 – A court in Hanoi convicts former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyễn Linh Ngọc and 26 others of offenses that include "violating state regulations causing wastefulness", causing pollution and violating regulations on natural resources exploitation over the illegal grant of a mining license in Yen Bai province and sentences them to up to 16 years' imprisonment. ^[5]
• May 23 – The government orders the blocking of Telegram for failing to cooperate in criminal investigations involving its users. ^[6]

June

• 4 June – The government officially lifts restrictions that allowed couples to have only up to two children since 1988 amid falling birth rates. ^[7]
• 7–14 June – The 2025 AVC Women's Volleyball Nations Cup is held in Hanoi, with Vietnam winning the gold medal after defeating the Philippines 3–0 in the final. ^{[8] [9]}
• 11–14 June – Eleven people are reported killed in flooding caused by Tropical Storm Wutip. ^[10]
• 12 June – The National Assembly approves a proposal to reduce the number of provinces and cities of Vietnam from 63 to 34. ^[11]
• 25 June – The National Assembly abolishes the use of the death penalty in punishing property embezzlement, bribe-taking, espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the government. ^[12]

July

• 2 July – US president Donald Trump announces a trade agreement in Vietnam in which a 20% tariff would be charged on Vietnamese products while no tariffs would be imposed on American products. ^[13]
• 19 July – A tourist boat capsizes amid bad weather in Hạ Long Bay, leaving 39 people dead. ^[14]
• 22 July – Tropical Storm Wipha makes landfall over northern Vietnam, leaving one person dead in Nghệ An province and another missing. ^{[15] [16]}

August

• 1 August – Flooding in Điện Biên province leaves 14 people dead or missing. ^[17]
• 25 August – Typhoon Kajiki makes landfall in central Vietnam, killing four people and injuring 13 others. ^[18]

September

• 24 September – Hương Giang becomes the first transgender person to be crowned Miss Universe Vietnam. She is also the first transgender person to represent an Asian country in the Miss Universe pageant franchise. ^[19]
• 25 September – Forty-three people are sentenced to up to 13 years' imprisonment for involvement in an illegal online gambling network containing 20,000 users with around 25 million accounts and $3.8 billion in transactions. ^[20]
• 28 September – Typhoon Bualoi makes landfall over Hà Tĩnh province, killing least 57 people, injuring 172 others, and leaving 10 missing. ^{[21] [22] [23]}
• 30 September – Former Saigon Jewelry Company CEO Le Thuy Hang and 15 other company officials are convicted and sentenced to up to 25 years' imprisonment for embezzling $2.7 million in funds and misdeclaring loss rates in gold processing to skim the mineral from 2021 to 2024. ^[24]

October

• 5 October – A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Quảng Ngãi province, damaging several structures in Kon Plông District. ^[25]
• 8 October – At least 10 people are killed nationwide in flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Matmo. ^[26]

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Vietnam

Source: ^{[27] [28]}

• 1–2 January – New Year's Day
• 28 January-3 February – Vietnamese New Year
• 7 April – Hung Kings Commemoration Day
• 30 April – Reunification Day
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 2 September – National Day

Deaths

• 20 May – Trần Đức Lương, 88, president (1997–2006). ^[29]
• 1 October – Thế Hiển, 69, singer and musician

Art and entertainment

• List of Vietnamese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

References

1. "6 dead in sleeper bus-truck crash in Vietnam's Son La". Tuoi Tre News. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
2. "Một người ở TPHCM tử vong trong lúc sơ tán khỏi chung cư khi động đất". Dân trí. 4 April 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
3. VNA (4 April 2025). "Vietnamese Party chief holds phone talks with US President". Nhân Dân . Communist Party of Vietnam . Retrieved 4 April 2025. The Party chief affirmed that Vietnam is ready to negotiate with the US to reduce import tax to 0% for goods imported from the US, and at the same time, proposed the US apply a similar tax rate to products imported from Vietnam...
4. "Vietnamese beauty queen arrested for fraud over fibre gummies". BBC. 20 May 2025. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
5. "Vietnam jails 23 people over rare earths exploitation". France 24. 21 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
6. "Vietnam jails 23 people over rare earths exploitation". Al Jazeera. 25 May 2025. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
7. "Vietnam scraps two-child limit as birth rate declines". France 24. 4 June 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
8. Micaller, Bea (7 June 2025). "Alas Pilipinas Women off to a flyer in AVC Nations Cup with sweep of unranked Mongolia". GMA Integrated News . Retrieved 7 June 2025.
9. Caacbay, Kennedy (14 June 2025). "Historic silver: PH clinches breakthrough 2nd place finish in AVC Women's Nations Cup". ABS-CBN . Retrieved 14 June 2025.
10. "11 người chết do mưa lũ miền Trung" (in Vietnamese). VNExpress. 14 June 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
11. "Vietnam lawmakers approve merging provinces, slashing nearly 80,000 jobs". CNA. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
12. "Vietnam tycoon will not face death penalty over $27 bn fraud: lawyer". France 24. 26 June 2025. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
13. "Trump announces trade deal with Vietnam". BBC. 3 July 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
14. Tân, Lê. "Thi thể nạn nhân cuối cùng vụ lật tàu Vịnh Xanh 58 được tìm thấy". Vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 29 July 2025.
15. Ghosal, Aniruddha (22 July 2025). "Storm Wipha hits northern Vietnam with strong winds and heavy rain". AP News . Retrieved 22 July 2025.
16. Ghosal, Aniruddha (23 July 2025). "Heavy storms in northern Vietnam leave 1 dead, as Wipha weakens into a tropical depression". AP News . Retrieved 23 July 2025.
17. "Flooding leaves 14 dead, missing in Vietnam's Dien Bien". Reuters. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
18. Hau, Dinh (26 August 2025). "Tropical storm leaves 4 dead in Vietnam and brings heavy rain to the region". AP News . Retrieved 26 August 2025.
19. "Vietnam's Miss Universe 2025 rep is a transgender woman". GMA News. 25 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
20. "Vietnam jails dozens in $3.8 bn online gambling and crypto case". France 24. 25 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
21. "Năm nay xảy ra 20 loại hình thiên tai, tổng thiệt hại trên 33.500 tỷ đồng" (in Vietnamese). Dân trí. 7 October 2025. Archived from the original on 7 October 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
22. "Vietnam evacuates thousands and shuts airports as Typhoon Bualoi makes landfall". AP News. 29 September 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2025.
23. "Typhoon Bualoi death toll in Vietnam tops 50". France 24. 3 October 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
24. "Vietnam jails former officials over gold bar graft: state media". France 24. 2 October 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
25. "Động đất ở Quảng Ngãi: Nhiều điểm trường sập mái, tường nứt toác" (in Vietnamese). Tiền Phong. 6 October 2025. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
26. "Báo cáo nhanh công tác trực ban PCTT ngày 08/10/2025". 9 October 2025. Retrieved 9 October 2025.
27. "Vietnam Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
28. "Holidays and Observances in Vietnam in 2025". Time and Date. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
29. "Former State President Tran Duc Luong passes away". VnExpress. 21 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.

External links

• Online calendar