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General Secretary of the Communist Party – Nguyễn Phú Trọng
President – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
Prime Minister – Phạm Minh Chính
Chairman of the National Assembly – Vương Đình Huệ

Events

Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam
20 January – The country reports its first three locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Ho Chi Minh City.^[1]
15 February – Vietnam lifts its COVID-19-related curbs on international passenger flights with no limitation on the number of flights in order to restore the travel to pre-pandemic level.^[2]
6 September – A karaoke bar fire near Ho Chi Minh City kills at least 32 people.^[3]

Deaths

9 January – Nguyễn Côn, politician, deputy prime minister (b. 1916).^[4]
22 January – Thích Nhất Hạnh, Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1926).^[5]
25 March – Nguyễn Hữu Việt, Olympic swimmer (b. 1988)^[6]
4 May – Nguyễn Duy Quý, academic and politician (b. 1932)^[7]
6 July – Tricia, Vietnamese-born Australian Asian elephant (b. 1957)^[8]
23 July – Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, aerospace engineer and military officer (b. 1930)^[9]
29 August – Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927)^[10]
6 September – Thẩm Thúy Hằng, actress (b. 1939)^[11]
12 October – Ngo Vinh Long, Vietnamese-American historian (b. 1944)^[12]
9 November – Lê Lựu, writer (b. 1942)^[13]

References

^ "Vietnam confirms first community cases of Omicron". hanoitimes.vn. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
^ "Vietnam to end COVID curbs on international flights". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ "Vietnam karaoke bar fire kills at least 32 people". BBC News. 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
^ "Nguyên Phó Thủ tướng Chính phủ Nguyễn Côn từ trần" [Former Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Con passed away] (in Vietnamese). VOV. 9 January 2022.
^ Greenblatt, Lilly (21 January 2022). "Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the great Buddhist teachers of our time, dies at 95". Lion's Roar.
^ VnExpress. "Kình ngư Nguyễn Hữu Việt qua đời". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ "Giáo sư, Viện sĩ Nguyễn Duy Quý từ trần". VOV.VN (in Vietnamese). 2022-05-05. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ "Young and old share stories as emotional tributes flow for Perth Zoo's beloved elephant, Tricia". ABC News. 2022-07-07. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ "GS Nguyễn Xuân Vinh, cựu tư lệnh Không Quân VNCH, qua đời ở tuổi 92". Nguoi Viet Online. 2022-07-25. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ "Bishop Paul-Marie Cao Ðình Thuyên [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ "Minh tinh Thẩm Thúy Hằng qua đời". Báo điện tử Tiền Phong (in Vietnamese). 2022-09-07. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ Burnham, Emily (2022-10-25). "UMaine history professor Ngo Vinh Long, outspoken Vietnam War opponent, has died". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
^ VnExpress. "Nhà văn Lê Lựu qua đời". vnexpress.net (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-12-22.

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