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.

Though scattered by work and life, four generations of one Vietnamese family have kept an eight-year promise to travel together every summer and preserve their family bond.

Aline Rebeaud arrived in Vietnam after a year-long overland journey from Switzerland. More than three decades later, the children she has cared for here are the family she chose.

After spending a decade building a life together, a Taiwanese groom in his late 60s and his Vietnamese wife finally celebrated the wedding they had long dreamed of, surrounded by children, relatives and friends in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

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.

A family in central Vietnam is offering a reward of $19,200 to anyone who can help locate a woman who went missing as a toddler 48 years ago.

Some people choose a life in the arts. Others seem destined for it. For People’s Artist Tam Chinh, that journey began one distant afternoon at 15, when a rural girl from Thanh Hoa cycled dozens of kilometers simply to see a circus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.