Incumbents Party General Secretary: Nguyễn Phú Trọng President: Trương Tấn Sang, then Trần Đại Quang Prime Minister: Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, then Nguyễn Xuân Phúc Assembly Chairperson: Nguyen Sinh Hung then Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân Executive Secretary: Lê Hồng Anh then Đinh Thế Huynh
Events
January January 20–28 - 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam occurred at the My Dinh National Convention Centre, Hanoi.
August August 5–21 - 7 athletes from Vietnam competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
October • October 16–17 - Severe flooding in Central Vietnam left at least 21 people dead and submerged tens of thousands of homes.
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