Long before Hanoi wakes, volunteers at a small Buddhist temple are already cooking. Their kitchen provides more than 150,000 free meals to cancer patients and others in need each year.

Gongbeats once again echoed through the mountains of Quang Tri as the Ta Oi gathered for Arieu Piing, one of their most sacred and culturally significant rituals.

Development can improve lives, but it can also leave deep scars when communities lose their voice, identity and ties to family. International experience offers important lessons for Vietnam.

Tran Ky Anh balanced a perfect 4.0 GPA with research, entrepreneurship contests and MC work, proving to himself that academic success extends far beyond textbooks.

Professor Carl Thayer has outlined three strategic priorities and four dual-use tactics for Vietnam's maritime future, ranging from offshore wind platforms serving as radar networks to high-tech digital ports,

After traveling overland to Vietnam at the age of 19, a young Swiss woman experienced unexpected encounters that led her to forego marriage, dedicating her life to her adopted Vietnamese children.

At 19, Le Thi My Nuong, a Mekong Delta woman took a leap of faith and married a Korean man 20 years older after spending only hours together.

The owner of this distinctly Vietnamese cart is not a Vietnamese expat but rather a 28-year-old Croatian man named Matko Kmezic who now lives in Amsterdam.

Only 500 meters apart but until adulthood, the couple just knew each other. They became destined and had a beautiful wedding deeply imbued with traditional features of Cham ethnic people.

A group of 40 football fans left Ninh Binh on Aug. 20 in a 45-seat coach, crossed into Laos and reached Vientiane before splitting into two groups traveling by bus and train to Bangkok to cheer on Vietnam in the ASEAN Cup 2026 final.

She entered Hanoi Medical University with a score just high enough for admission. Six years later, Nguyen Minh Hien is leaving as the university’s top graduating student.

A farmer in Can Tho is earning around $27,000 a year from an unusual variety known locally as the “chocolate persimmon,” whose dark brown flesh, creamy texture and distinctive flavor are drawing curious visitors to his one-hectare orchard.

A Russian bride was surprised when relatives presented her with gold jewelry at her wedding in Quang Tri, a tradition far removed from Russian weddings, where cash is the more common gift.

Once avoided by children who called him “snake boy,” Nguyen Dinh Vuong is now 24 and preparing to begin university life in Da Nang.

A 73-year-old man in Ho Chi Minh City walks more than 14 kilometers every day selling lottery tickets to make a living. Despite his modest means, he still sets aside more than $2,600 each year for charity.

For nearly 30 years, a Dong Nai man has ventured deep into the forest in search of termite queens, wild honey and a rare fungus known as “black gold,” earning as much as several million dong on a good day.

What began as an ordinary purchase grew into an extraordinary relationship, leading Nguyen Thuy Truc to leave her job and build a life with quadriplegic Nguyen Chanh Tin.

Against the backdrop of globalisation and the explosion of digital technology, cinema is no longer merely an art form. It has become an important cultural industry making a direct contribution to economic growth and national soft power.

Vietnam’s stage arts are beginning to operate more like a genuine cultural industry, where artistic quality drives revenue and revenue, in turn, sustains creativity.