An 18-year-old female staff member survived a predawn fire that killed four people in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on Friday by jumping more than ten meters from a third-floor window to escape the suffocating blaze.
A new U.K. proposal would charge universities £925 (US$1,233) a year for every international student they enroll, a change experts warn could drive up tuition, shrink enrollment and strain university finances nationwide.
A Can Gio – Vung Tau sea road spanning more than 14 km with bridge and tunnel that will reduce travel time to just 10 minutes is estimated to cost over VND104 trillion (US$3.94 billion).
Vietnam is moving to establish a Specialized Court in its planned international financial centers, and for the first time, foreign judges could be appointed to help resolve complex investment and business disputes.
More than 6,000 foreign workers were injured or killed in workplace accidents in Japan last year, with Vietnamese nationals recording the highest number of casualties at nearly 1,600 cases.
Phu Quoc's boom as a tourist hotspot has taken a hit the past week when a construction accident knocked out its main source of electricity, a 110 kV submarine cable that supplies about 70% of the island's power.
Ho Chi Minh City will implement traffic adjustments across multiple central streets Saturday and Sunday to accommodate an international marathon event.
Electricity has been fully restored to Phu Quoc, Vietnam’s largest island off the southern coast, after a week-long outage caused by a damaged undersea cable, affecting more than 30,000 households and businesses.
Thailand is preparing to raise airport taxes for outbound passengers starting in 2026, a shift that will push up ticket prices for millions of travelers passing through its busiest international airports.
A striking natural spectacle has appeared along Vietnam’s western coast: a razor-clear line where blue seawater meets a reddish-brown band stretching for tens of kilometers.
China will impose a 13% tax on condoms and other contraceptives starting next year, ending a three-decade tax-exemption policy as the country struggles with a severe population decline.
At the British International School (BIS) Hanoi, Early Years classrooms are structured environments designed to facilitate exploration, imagination, creativity, and purposeful movement for young learners.
Heavy rains in recent days have caused landslides on passes leading into Da Lat, cutting two national highways and flooding thousands of homes in Lam Dong and Khanh Hoa provinces.
Four people died of smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a restaurant less than 1 km from Ben Thanh Market in central Ho Chi Minh City early Friday morning, local authorities and a hospital confirmed.
Three South Korean fugitives accused of running a deepfake-driven romance scam network have been arrested in Da Nang, ending a months-long chase across Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.
Malaysia's House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) on Wednesday approved the Anti-Bullying Bill 2025, aimed at strengthening safety in schools, with a majority vote in favor.
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced increased vetting of applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, with an internal State Department memo saying that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech be considered for rejection.
Construction on the Dinh Khao Bridge, a 4.3-kilometer span set to replace the ferry across the Co Chien River, will begin on Dec. 19, improving travel across the Mekong Delta and linking key regional highways.
A 15-year-old boy in China is facing a lifelong height of just 1.38 meters after years of late-night gaming left his growth plates closed, doctors at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University say.
Nearly 300 students at Bo Trach Ethnic Boarding School took part in Hope Foundation's School Hygiene Day on Dec. 3, joining singer Bui Cong Nam in games and activities designed to teach practical hygiene practices.
A sudden overnight surge from the Long Song reservoir has inundated part of Lam Dong Province, flooding more than 1,000 homes, sweeping away dozens of fishing boats and submerging farmland as heavy rain pounded the central region.
Torrential rain battered Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong provinces overnight, flooding major roads, isolating neighborhoods and forcing families to evacuate as rivers surged with the remnants of Storm Koto.
A tropical depression currently active east of the Philippines is expected to enter the East Sea within the next two to three days and may strengthen into a storm, Vietnamese weather authorities said.
Hanoi’s air has slipped into its third major pollution episode of the season, and for millions of residents, the health impact is now on par with passively smoking two cigarettes every single day.
Fourteen rainfall records were shattered as three consecutive storm systems devastated central and south-central Vietnam in November, causing historic flooding and economic losses estimated at VND29.32 trillion (US$1.11 billion).
Following a historic flood late last month, the vegetable-growing hub of D’ran Commune in Lam Dong Province now lies in ruins with collapsed greenhouses, withered crops, and mud-buried farmland, leaving many households with nothing.
A section of Nguyen Cong Tru Street near a construction site in downtown Da Nang City suddenly sank Wednesday, pulling in two cars and a man, injuring his leg.
The Vietnamese government is moving to speed up phase 2 of Long Thanh International Airport, seeking the authority to self-approve the next feasibility study so construction can start earlier than planned as economic and air-travel growth outpace forecasts.
Ho Chi Minh City is laying the groundwork for one of Southeast Asia's largest metro systems, with plans to train nearly 500 specialists to operate seven new lines stretching more than 350 km by 2035 and over 500 km by 2045.
Flights between China and Japan are being slashed at an extraordinary pace this month, with nearly 40% of scheduled services, more than 1,900 flights, now canceled as political tensions spill into one of Asia’s busiest air corridors.
Persistent fine dust has blanketed Hanoi for nearly a week, pushing air quality to unhealthy levels and severely impacting residents' daily routines and city travel.
Two Vietnamese women are being prosecuted by Japanese authorities for allegedly attempting to smuggle over 30 kg of cannabis into the country, concealed within suitcases of dried food.
The record heights of these bridges are measured by deck-height, which means the vertical distance from the bridge deck to the ground or canyon/river valley below.
At the QS Higher Ed Summit: Asia Pacific 2025 in Seoul, South Korea, British University Vietnam (BUV) was officially awarded the QS 5-Star rating for the 2025–2028 period.
Student internships are not just about errands or menial work; they are recognized as crucial stepping stones to meaningful careers worldwide, according to BUV's experts.
Police in the northern province of Lang Son have arrested 57-year-old Doan Van Sang, a former market management official, accusing him of killing a 36-year-old man at his unit’s headquarters and secretly disposing of the body in January.
Vietnam’s health sector is pushing towards zero-fee hospital treatment and regular health checks for all citizens in line with Politburo Resolution No. 72.
Some flood-hit regions of Southeast Asia experienced their heaviest November rains since 2012, according to an AFP analysis, as climate change intensifies seasonal weather patterns.
Hanoi is urging residents, especially seniors, children and people with respiratory issues, to limit outdoor activity and wear masks as the capital slips deeper into its latest air-pollution spell.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to create new low-emission zones in its inner areas, Can Gio and Con Dao, where violations could attract fines of VND200,000-400,000 (US$7.58-15.16).
A Vietnamese man traveling through Ho Chi Minh City found himself stuffed and stressed at the airport after learning he could not bring more than 130 shrimp-and-pork tapioca cakes banh bot loc into Japan, where he now works.
Doctors at Binh Duong General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have completed a complex surgical procedure by reattaching a woman's severed hand after first keeping it alive by grafting it to her leg.
The 15 U.S. universities with the highest number of international students in the past academic year are mostly ranked among the country's 50 best, with tuition fees ranging from $24,000 to over $75,000 per year.
A malfunction in an undersea power cable has caused widespread outages that have upended daily life on Phu Quoc Island, forcing hotels to run generators nonstop, driving up costs.
The T1 and T2 roads linking Long Thanh International Airport with National Highway 51 and the Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thanh–Dau Giay Expressway have taken shape ahead of their scheduled opening on Dec. 19.
Hope Foundation has won in the Best Practices category at the Global Corporate Sustainable Development Awards (GCSA) for its School Hygiene project, emerging from nearly 100 international submissions.
A 14-year-old student in north-central Vietnam achieved an outstanding 8.5 IELTS score on her first attempt, a result she credits to early English exposure and consistent, detailed practice.
Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces are expected to experience a spell of widespread thunderstorms lasting from Tuesday evening through Saturday, according to the Southern Hydrometeorological Station.
A 26-year-old Chinese tourist was bitten by a shark while scuba diving in the Maldives after choosing to enter the water during her period, a decision she made based on advice she found online saying it was safe.
The Notre-Dame Cathedral of Saigon is glowing brighter than ever this holiday season, draped in more than 1,000 kilometers of LED lights that illuminate its façade and twin bell towers each night from Dec. 1 to Jan. 5, 2026.
Northern Vietnam is bracing for a sharp chill as a strengthening cold spell pushes south, expected to send temperatures tumbling across the region starting Wednesday.
An 84-year-old German traveler was found dead inside his Phuket hotel room over the weekend after friends and staff were unable to reach him, with police saying the door was locked from the inside.
A former flight attendant and her Chinese boyfriend are at the center of a widening criminal case in Ho Chi Minh City, accused of turning a karaoke restaurant into a tightly managed prostitution network involving hundreds of young women.
The death toll from flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,600 on Dec. 1, as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed the military to help survivors.
A 35-year-old Chinese man suffered permanent vision impairment in his right eye after an all-night gaming session led to a sudden central retinal artery occlusion, commonly known as an "eye stroke."
