Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh departed from Hanoi at noon on March 22 for an official visit to Russia from March 22–25, at the invitation of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
After 11 years of restoration, Vietnam’s oldest courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City has been revitalized, preserving its historic architecture while enhancing its condition and functionality.
A Chinese national suspected of killing a foreign man at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City was arrested at Tan Son Nhat International Airport while attempting to leave the country, police said.
Dropped from his school math team while in 11th grade, Ho Anh Kiet pushed himself by studying 12th-grade math one year in advance to win first prize in the Ho Chi Minh City competition for talented students.
Schools in South Korea with large populations of students from migrant families have increased 2.6 times over the past five years, but improvements in support systems have not kept pace with this rapid demographic shift.
Phan Thanh Nam, the first Vietnamese national to be awarded the European Mathematical Society (EMS) Prize, is among six world-class mathematicians who have committed to regularly returning to Vietnam to mentor doctoral students at the invitation of Professor Ngo Bao Chau.
Nguyen Hoang Bao Ngoc scored 9.0 on the IELTS on her first attempt and parlayed that result, along with a 1,500 SAT score, into a full scholarship worth more than US$204,860 to study computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Following a disturbing incident where a sixth-grade student's written plan to harm classmates caused a stir among parents, representatives from the school stated that initial findings suggest the student was heavily influenced by the popular detective comic series "Detective Conan."
Vietnam has successfully carried out its first domino multi-organ transplant, the Department of Medical Service Administration under the Ministry of Health and Viet Duc University Hospital announced on March 19.
According to a new ranking that assesses key factors important for families with children around the world, this city stands out as the best choice in Asia.
Archival research in France, steelwork in Belgium and gold leaf from a 425-year-old Italian firm went into the two new crosses hoisted onto Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral's spires on March 19, replacing a pair that had stood for 128 years.
A Vietnamese inventor whose biomedical research has produced painless skin patches that can replace vaccine injections and implants that dissolve harmlessly inside the body has been elected to one of the oldest science academies in the U.S.
An overseas Vietnamese who has obtained U.S. citizenship wishes to return to his hometown to build an ancestral house and spend his retirement there, but is concerned about whether he is eligible to have land use rights in his name and what procedures are required.
Thousands of Vietnamese workers in Europe who flew home for the Lunar New Year holiday last month are now struggling to get back, after Iranian strikes shut down the Middle East airports they depend on for affordable transit.
A former professor at one of Hong Kong's top-ranked universities has been charged with accepting a $5,100 bribe to help a student gain admission to a master's program, in the latest case to expose cracks in the city's higher education system as it aggressively recruits international students.
Eight buffalo charged through rush-hour traffic on Da Nang's iconic Dragon Bridge and several central streets on Friday morning, forcing cars and motorbikes to swerve or stop.
Vietnam has continued its steady rise in the global happiness rankings, placing 45th in the 2026 World Happiness Report released on Thursday, up from 46th last year.
Employees of a U.S. computer company raked in billions of dollars diverting Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to China in violation of export controls, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, according to the World Happiness Report 2026 published Thursday.
Rock nearly the size of a motorcycle helmet crashed through roofs and landed on beds in a central Vietnam village on March 18, hurled hundreds of meters by a quarry blast next door.
In a small kitchen in a mountainous village in Lam Dong Province, Hoang Van Ngoc stirs a pot of wild bamboo shoot, occasionally glancing over and reminding his two students to set the table.
A Chinese university is urging students to "enjoy the flowers, fall in love" during their mid-term break, an unusual directive in a nation obsessed with getting good grades, as authorities seek new ways to spur marriages and domestic consumption.
Two gold-plated crosses weighing 400 kg each were hoisted to the top of Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral on Thursday morning, marking a milestone in the decade-long restoration of Ho Chi Minh City's most famous religious landmark.
Vietnam reaffirms its consistent policy of respecting and safeguarding human rights, including the right to freedom of belief and religion, as clearly enshrined in the 2013 Constitution, embedded in its legal system, and upheld in practice, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said on March 19.
Gaining admission to the most prestigious universities in the United States is becoming increasingly competitive, with many elite institutions accepting fewer than one in ten applicants.
An essay about wearing long pants for nine years to hide a leg imperfection became a highlight that helped a Hanoi student secure a place at Cornell University, one of the eight Ivy League schools in the U.S.
A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles (72,420 kilometers) per hour on Tuesday before breaking apart in a thunderous boom startled residents who feared an explosion.
A tourist from the U.K. stabbed and seriously wounded a police officer who responded to a traffic dispute in Vietnam's popular beach resort of Mui Ne on Wednesday evening, authorities said.
Thailand's new parliament on Thursday elected Anutin Charnvirakul as prime minister, according to an AFP tally of the vote, keeping the conservative in the top office after his party routed its election rivals.
A growing share of young women in Japan are opting out of parenthood, with a 2025 survey revealing that 64.7% of unmarried women aged 18 to 29 do not want children.
Singapore's total fertility rate fell to a record low of 0.87 in 2025, meaning the average couple now has fewer than one child in a lifetime, as the city-state confronts what officials have called an existential demographic crisis.
A subdistrict in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi is offering residents beef in exchange for weight loss, drawing thousands of sign-ups in a campaign that taps into Beijing's intensifying push against rising obesity rates.
A duty-free shop employee at Changi Airport has been sentenced to seven months in prison after stealing more than S$24,000 (US$18,000) worth of beauty products over less than two months.
The Singapore Air Force (RSAF), the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) are participating in the 32nd edition of Exercise Cope Tiger.
The capital city of China has ranked first among nearly 100 global cities for reducing fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, achieving the largest air quality improvement over the past decade, according to a new report.
Hanoi police on Wednesday initiated criminal proceedings against 83 defendants linked to a major asset fraud ring led by Pho Duc Nam, widely known as “Mr Pips”.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday put the brakes on a public transportation fare hike announced just a day earlier, promising the country's commuters free rides instead.
Two public holidays in April fall just two working days apart, and millions of Vietnamese workers and students are finding ways to turn the gap into a single nine-day break.
Phu Quoc International Airport has unveiled the design for its new VIP terminal ahead of the 2027 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, drawing inspiration from the spotted eagle ray and the ocean's depths.
Angered over how a food delivery was handled, a 31-year-old man violently attacked a 44-year-old female delivery worker in Ho Chi Minh City, repeatedly striking her on the head and face until she collapsed.
A Chinese national and a Kenyan man were charged Tuesday with unlawfully dealing in wildlife species after they were found in possession of hundreds of live ants stored in specialized tubes.
Japan is set to impose some of the sharpest immigration fee increases in its modern history, with the cost of applying for permanent residency potentially rising twentyfold under a bill the Cabinet approved on March 10.
A university in central China has introduced a specialized diploma program dedicated entirely to barbecue, aiming to professionalize popular street-food trade and train the next generation of highly skilled grill masters.
Eleven Nepalese men who overstayed their visit passes in Singapore and worked illegally at food and beverage outlets face up to six months in jail and a minimum of three strokes of the cane after being arrested in a crackdown by immigration and labor authorities.
Bangkok authorities have announced the “Phone off, Learning on” program to limit the use of mobile phones and electronic devices during school hours at 437 schools starting next academic year, due to concerns about learning, wellbeing, and cyber safety.
Ho Chi Minh City is set to commence construction of the Ben Thanh-Thu Thiem section of Metro Line No. 2 this April, in a push to fast-track its modern urban rail network and create a strategic corridor connecting key economic centers and major airports.
Traffic police in Ho Chi Minh City have detected more than 84,500 traffic violations since the beginning of 2026 through a network of surveillance cameras combined with direct on-road monitoring.
The U.S. will drop the price for Americans looking to formally renounce their citizenship by more than 80%, a move welcomed by the “Accidental Americans” struggling with the U.S. tax system.
Hundreds of Philippine tricycle drivers lined up Tuesday in Manila for cash handouts they hope will provide temporary relief from a war-driven surge in fuel prices that has left the country scrambling for short-term answers.
Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the only Vietnamese to have won the Fields Medal, says he wants to help transform Asia into the world's next great center of mathematics and science, describing the continent as a future rival to America and Europe.
A new analysis finds that graduates in liberal arts and education fields earn the lowest salaries within five years of finishing college, while engineering majors report much higher early-career pay.
Seoul's subway ticket kiosks begin accepting overseas-issued payment cards starting Tuesday, a major step aimed at addressing a long-standing inconvenience faced by foreign visitors navigating the city's public transport system.
Four Vietnamese high school students have designed a satellite that could detect clear-air turbulence, the invisible atmospheric phenomenon that causes aircraft to shake violently without warning and cannot be picked up by conventional weather radar.
A driver fled the scene after abruptly opening their car door, causing a motorcyclist to crash into another vehicle on a congested Ho Chi Minh City street last weekend.
The U.K. government has denied visas to dozens of scholars who won one of Britain's most prestigious scholarships, after imposing a blanket ban on student visas from four war-affected countries.
Da Nang authorities seized a drone from a Chinese tourist who flew it without a permit along the city's coast, about 6 km from the international airport, the latest in a string of incidents that has forced Vietnam's military to deploy round-the-clock patrols.
Hanoi needs 986 new schools over the next two decades to keep pace with a student population that grows by tens of thousands each year, according to a draft master plan open for public comment until March 23.
Singapore has recalled two batches of formula milk products due to the presence of cereulide toxin, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) reported.
