2016 in Vietnam

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.