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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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
5 November – At least 47 people are reported killed and eight others missing following days of the first period of flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in central Vietnam.[27]
7 November – Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall over the provinces of Gia Lai and Đắk Lắk,[28] killing at least six people, injuring 26 others,[29] collapsing 2,365 houses and damaging 57,498 houses.[30]
13 November – At least 66 people are reported killed and missing following days of the first period of flooding and landslides, along with Typhoon Kalmaegi, in central Vietnam.[31]
16 November – At least six people are killed and 19 others are injured when a landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a bus carrying 32 passengers in Khánh Hòa province.[32]
25 November – At least 98 people are reported killed and 10 others missing following days of the second period of flooding caused by heavy rains in south-central Vietnam.[33]
28 November – Montagnard activist Y Quynh Bđăp is extradited by Thai authorities to Vietnam, where he had been convicted in absentia on charges related to the 2023 Đắk Lắk attacks.[34]
^Gia Chính (8 November 2025). "Hơn 32.000 ngôi nhà hư hỏng sau bão Kalmaegi" [More than 32,000 houses were damaged after Typhoon Kalmaegi]. VnExpress (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 19 November 2025.
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