Tran Minh Dung entered medical school worried that his math background might hold him back. Six years later, he has graduated top of his class with a 3.75/4 GPA.

Vietnam’s booming social commerce market is exposing a costly weakness: consumers buying on trust as influencers turn cheap products into supposedly premium regional specialties.

A faster-growing Vietnam will need far more capital and power, setting the stage for a new investment cycle spanning finance, energy, infrastructure and electrical equipment.

As August arrives each year, sunlight bathes the mountains of Lao Cai, transforming the terraced fields of Ta Van commune into a vibrant green landscape that draws visitors from Vietnam and abroad.

Decree 287/2026/ND-CP was issued recently with a new focus on "incentive royalties," allowing creators to share up to 10 percent of the profit from their own work.

Swept away by strong currents roughly seven kilometers offshore, Nguyen Van Thanh experienced near total exhaustion multiple times during a 10-hour struggle at sea.

To ascend to a higher stage of development, Vietnam must execute three strategic transformations, with institutional reform serving as the decisive lever.

Defying her family's objections, Kieu Anh traveled alone to Turkey to marry a man more than 19 years older. Five years later, that leap of faith has turned into a happy marriage.

When a Vietnamese husband and his Thai wife sat down to watch the first leg of the 2026 ASEAN Cup final, he added a playful twist to their football rivalry by cooking her a Thai hotpot.

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.

Do Thi Xuan Dieu left a job paying more than $750 a month to return to Can Tho and find new value in a fruit often left to fall unwanted. Two years of experimentation later, her dried lekima earned four-star OCOP status.

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.