As an associate professor at a top university in Australia, Hoang Lan Anh says that she was not a typical "dutiful child and excellent student" as valued in Vietnamese culture.

Tran Ha Duong, who has a doctorate in public policy from Harvard University and works for a large corporation in Vietnam, said for a long time the prestigious school was a far-fetched goal for him.

A young Mong ethnic minority man has become the first person in his community to earn a master's degree.

Bui Minh Tuan, lecturer at the Meteorology and Oceanography Faculty under the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences, has been nominated for the Ta Quang Buu Award this year for his research on weather forecasting.

Having parents with severe illnesses who could not pay to send their kids to tutoring did not lessen Thong’s eagerness to learn and achieve.

Having experienced a difficult period of time finding directions for the future, a pair of twin sisters decided to establish an online platform to advise and troubleshoot problems for young people who are struggling to find goals for life.

Earlier this year, Le Trieu Anh, born in 2001, is one of 10 students chosen to receive a scholarship worth VND2 billion to study at University of Sydney.

Tran Nguyen Kim Thi is a postdoc majoring in AI usage in medicine at the Huge Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) in the US.

Nguyen Kim Ngoc, 45, and Nguyen Cong Luan, in Long An, got married in 1999 and gave birth to a healthy son, Nguyen Hoang Phuc, one year later.

Nguyen Thanh Cong initially knew nothing about chess, but became an internationally certified chess referee after years of studying along with his prize-winning daughter.

Phan Van Hung now earns half billion dong a year after studying farming techniques on the Internet.

After many years raising rabbits, Do Quoc Toan, a farmer in Dan Phuong district in Hanoi, has reaped fruit. His rabbit farm brings revenue of over VND1 billion a year.

Students and scientists at the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) have carried out extensive research and developed products that help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The strategy of mastering the high-tech industry at a world-class level has been the foundation for Viettel Group’s engineers to now have four patents protected as intellectual property in the US.

The replacement of fossil fuel-derived energy with environmentally-friendly energy is the focus of research by a PhD student from Hue who is studying in Taiwan.

Dr Pham Van Phuc has been honored as one of the 10 outstanding young faces of Hanoi in 2021.

Among 10 people praised as outstanding young exemplars in Vietnam in 2020, the youngest face belonged to a high school student in Hanoi.

As the first author of six scientific articles and owner of one patent, Dr Ta Thu Hang has had great opportunities to get a promotion at a leading Australian university.

It is a mistake to think that talented students are only those who score high at standardized tests or have a high GPA, according to Nguyen Chi Hieu, who has been working with students for 15 years.

The image of a boy with shining eyes and crippled limbs damaged by Agent Orange prompted Ngo Thi Thuy Huong, born in 1974, "to do something" to revive contaminated land in Vietnam.