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A 12th-grade Vietnamese chemistry student scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT after rebuilding his test strategy around a single rule: handle the easy questions first and never leave time off the clock for review.
Canada is considering allowing international students to work without a permit while waiting for their documents to be renewed, as application backlogs have pushed processing times to around 250 days.
A 9-year-old boy has been rescued after living locked in his father's utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father detained.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man conveyed an invitation from Party General Secretary and President To Lam to Pope Leo XIV to pay an official visit to Vietnam as he met with the pope at the Vatican on April 11.
South Korea will strengthen oversight of international students by conducting joint government inspections of universities, officials announced this week.
Singapore plans to equip at least 10,000 students over the next five years with skills in physical AI, a rapidly growing frontier where artificial intelligence is embedded into robots, drones, and autonomous machines rather than confined to screens.
Harvard is once again the university American students want most, according to a new survey, even as the school fights a federal lawsuit and faces funding cuts that have made national headlines for months.
A drug kingpin who ran a vast trafficking network used four unwitting Vietnam Airlines flight attendants to smuggle narcotics from France concealed inside toothpaste tubes, police said.
A Vietnamese student's research into the hidden power of Taylor Swift's lyrics has won her a place at the University of Oxford, the world's top-ranked university, without even being called for an interview.
A computing workbook used in Vietnamese primary schools for the past three years has been printing a link to a pornographic website in an exercise meant to teach 8-year-olds how to use a mouse scroll wheel.
Nam leaned against a rare patch of shade on Vo Van Kiet Street in Ho Chi Minh City, drained the last of his water bottle, and exhaled. His face was flushed red, his green delivery jacket soaked through.
Two foreign tourists riding a motorbike lost control on a sharp downhill bend on northern Vietnam's Ha Giang Loop on April 8 and slid across the road into the path of an oncoming truck, stopping just inches from its front bumper after the driver braked in time.
Traffic on some of Hanoi's most notoriously congested arteries, including Nguyen Trai, Giai Phong and Lang, has flowed noticeably more freely after the city started banning trucks of 2 metric tons and above from entering the inner streets during daytime hours from January.
A waste dump in central Vietnam has been burning for more than a week, sending smoke across a section of the country's main North-South Expressway and forcing families in a nearby village to send their children away.
Police in Saitama Prefecture detained six Vietnamese nationals on Thursday on suspicion of robbery-homicide following the death of a fellow countryman on New Year's Day.
A 2.2-meter stone statue of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat that detected 109 explosive devices across Cambodian minefields during a five-year career, was unveiled in Siem Reap on April 3, on the eve of the International Day for Mine Awareness.
Vietnam aims to develop at least five cities of international standing by 2045 under a Government action program on sustainable urban planning and development.
Airfares and train ticket prices have surged ahead of the April 30-May 1 holiday, with many routes hitting fare caps and seats in peak time slots selling out quickly despite airlines adding extra flights.
Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong is encouraging Singapore residents to help ease the pressure of an ongoing energy crunch by opting for fans instead of air-conditioning and choosing public transport over personal vehicles.
A widespread heatwave scorching northern and central Vietnam is forecast to last until mid-April, while southern areas could endure the extreme temperatures into early May, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
According to the IQAir 2025 World Air Quality Report, this city has the lowest fine dust concentration level among all capital cities around the world.
Vietnam's General Party Secretary and State President To Lam, along with his spouse and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, will pay a state visit to China from April 14-17.
Alex Chui made history at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad in July 2025 when he claimed his fourth gold medal, joining one of the most exclusive clubs in competitive mathematics.
Haruki Watanabe, a condensed matter theorist who shared a 2022 Breakthrough Prize for his work on exotic new phases of matter, has left the University of Tokyo for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Indonesia remained Southeast Asia's most polluted country in 2025, with average fine-particle pollution running at six times the World Health Organization's safe limit despite a nearly 16% year-on-year improvement, according to IQAir's 2025 World Air Quality Report.
Organized fraud rings pushed out of Cambodia and other regional havens are shifting their operations to Vietnam, using luxury apartments and gated villa compounds in Hanoi as new bases to run online scams targeting victims across Asia, the Hanoi Department of Public Security said.
South Korea has revoked the visas of 112 Chinese students who allegedly used forged degree certificates from a defunct American college to transfer into a private university in Gwangju, exposing the country's struggle in recruiting foreign students to offset a collapsing domestic student pipeline.
Indonesian prosecutors charged 19 people with human trafficking on Tuesday for their alleged roles in buying babies from new parents and selling them at a profit to clients at home and abroad.
Vietnam's main labor body is asking workers whether the country should rearrange its two April public holidays to create a longer continuous break, as employers and union branches push back against a calendar that splits the days off into awkward fragments.
Spanish model Andrea Aybar paid her personal assistant VND10 million (US$385) a month to drive her to work, film her social media videos and, prosecutors say, keep her supplied with methamphetamine for drug parties at her luxury Ho Chi Minh City apartment.
Hue, home to Vietnam's former Imperial Citadel, is preparing to open the Thuan An sea-crossing bridge, the longest in the central region, to ease connections across key economic zones.
After searching for emergency care for more than four hours in Daegu in South Korea, an American woman pregnant with twins at 28 weeks lost her first baby, while the second sustained brain damage.
Vietnam entered the second day of a widespread heatwave on Tuesday, with temperatures rising 1-2 degrees Celsius compared to Monday, and many locations in the northern and central regions recording readings above 40 C (104 F).
Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has announced plans to build the country's first 3D-printed concrete pedestrian bridge, expected to be completed and put into operation in 2028, helping shorten travel time between the Jurong West and Tengah residential areas.
Vietnamese prosecutors have charged 18 people with running a cannabis trafficking ring that rented upscale apartments in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as stash houses, moving more than 412 kg of the drug worth VND92.16 billion (US$3.5 million) in just over a year.
A Vietnamese orthopedic surgeon set up an emergency IV line and revived an unconscious Japanese woman on a Tokyo-bound flight last weekend, working in a cramped cabin as the aircraft began its descent into Haneda Airport.
Many top positions by India and Singapore in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject exposed a regional split in which South and Southeast Asia rose and East Asia's traditional powerhouses slid backward.
Vietnam's National Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday afternoon electing Le Minh Hung, head of the Party Central Committee's Organization Commission, as prime minister for the 2026-2031 term.
Singapore Airlines has become the first international carrier to sell tickets for Sydney's new A$5.3 billion (US$3.7 billion) Western Sydney International Airport, launching a daily 24-hour service to Changi from Nov. 23.
Eligible large families in Singapore, ranked the world's second-richest country in 2025 by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, will receive S$1,000 (US$777) for each third and subsequent child aged one to six on April 28, as part of efforts to ease household costs.
Party General Secretary To Lam was elected by the National Assembly as State President for the 2026-2031 term on Tuesday morning, according to a resolution passed unanimously by deputies.
Hanoi's air quality fell to unhealthy levels on Tuesday morning, with PM2.5 concentrations at around 85 µg/cu.m, nearly six times the World Health Organization's recommended daily limit.
Indonesia announced on Monday a 28-percentage point rise in the surcharge on jet fuel, and said it will allow airlines to raise the domestic ticket price, which the government caps, by up to 13%.
Southeast Asia's largest low-cost carrier AirAsia X said Monday it was raising ticket prices by up to 40% and cutting routes to cushion the impact of the war on Iran, but stressed demand for flights remained high.
Many international students are skipping meals and cutting back on vegetables and fruit as the cost of living in Australia continues to rise, particularly rents.
Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York, has announced plans to close or suspend 93 academic programs, mostly in the social sciences and humanities, due to low enrollment.
A Vietnamese driver dislocated his ankle jumping from his truck to rescue a 2-year-old girl who had toddled alone onto National Highway 1, scooping her up in the middle of a four-lane stretch moments before a passing car had to swerve sharply to avoid hitting them both.
A Chinese woman on a weekend hike with coworkers in southern Vietnam had to be carried down a mountain on a stretcher by nine police officers on April 5 after she fractured her leg on a steep slope and became stranded.
A widespread and prolonged heatwave is intensifying across Vietnam, with temperatures in many locations exceeding 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The Thai Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation has deployed its fleet to address hazardous PM2.5 dust in northern Thailand, focusing on Chiang Mai Province, where air quality reaches hazardous levels.
Vietnam has emerged as a “bright spot” by absorbing a large share of young workforce through export-oriented manufacturing and deeper integration into global supply chains, according to Japan’s Nikkei newspaper.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul of Thailand, the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, has kicked off the “Thais Help Thais” campaign to ease living costs, offering nationwide discounts of up to 58% on essential goods starting April 1.
A Malaysian electrician who installed devices in a Singapore flat that blasted more than 50,000 automated scam calls in just 50 minutes has been sentenced to five years and three months in jail.
