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The following are events that happened during 2008 in Vietnam.

Incumbents

• Party General Secretary: Nông Đức Mạnh
• President: Nguyễn Minh Triết
• Prime Minister: Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
• Chairman of the National Assembly: Nguyễn Phú Trọng

Events

• April 19 – Vinasat-1, the first Vietnamese satellite, was launched
• May 13 – Vietnam police arrested two journalists reporting on the PMU 18 scandal
• May 29 – The National Assembly passed a resolution to merge Hà Tây province, one district of Vĩnh Phúc province, and four communes of Hòa Bình province into Hanoi.
• July 14 – Miss Universe 2008 was held in Nha Trang
• August 10 – Hoàng Anh Tuấn won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• September 8 – Vedan was discovered discharging untreated waste into Thị Vải River.
• October 30–November 4 – Floods affected Northern and Central Vietnam.
• December 1 – Hồ Duy Hải was sentenced to death in a controversial case
• December 28 – Vietnam won the AFF Championship for the first time. At least four people dead in street storming.

Deaths

• January 15 – Nguyễn Khải, writer (b. 1930)
• January 22 – Cao Văn Viên, general (b. 1921)
• January 31 – Hoàng Châu Ký, writer (b. 1921)
• February 7 – Hoàng Minh Chính, dissident (b. 1922)
• April 21 – Lê Đạt, poet (b. 1929)
• July 5 – Thích Huyền Quang, dissident (b. 1919)
• June 11 – Võ Văn Kiệt, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
• October 25 – Hoàng Minh Thảo, general (b. 1921)

References

1. "First Satellite Starts Operations". SGGP English Edition. 2008-05-24. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
2. "Vietnam arrests journalists who reported on graft". Reuters. 2008-05-13.
3. "Nghị quyết về việc điều chỉnh địa giới hành chính thành phố Hà Nội và một số tỉnh có liên quan". vbpl.vn. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
4. "Miss Universe 2008". CBS News. 2008-07-14. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
5. "VN đoạt huy chương bạc Olympic". BBC Vietnamese (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2024-11-04.
6. "Đồng Nai firm caught discharging wastewater into river". vietnamnews.vn. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
7. "54 Dead in Vietnam Flooding". Voice of America. 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
8. "Vietnam: 10 year death row case pushed for execution: Ho Duy Hai". Amnesty International. 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
9. ONLINE, TUOI TRE (2008-12-28). "Nổ tung trời đêm mừng chiến thắng của tuyển bóng đá VN". TUOI TRE ONLINE (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2024-11-04.
10. "At least four dead in Vietnam soccer celebrations: report". Reuters. 2008-12-30.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to 2008 in Vietnam at Wikimedia Commons

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