Vietnamese workers spent an average of VND125.7 million (US$4,835) in 2025 to take up jobs abroad, equivalent to 4.5 months of their first overseas income, and more than half of them had to borrow money to cover it.
Amid economic uncertainty and rapid technological change, mid-career professionals are increasingly viewing postgraduate education as an investment in skills, networks, and long-term career development.
Two-thirds of Singapore's 15-year-olds use AI chatbots to help them learn at least once a week, far above the 46% average across OECD countries, according to Programme for International Student Assessment results released Sept. 8.
Ho Chi Minh City has leased nearly 4.5 hectares in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park to Starmason JSC to build a hyperscale data center, under a land use term running to 2076.
A fire broke out on a passenger ferry in waters off the western Philippines, leaving dozens of people missing besides at least five killed, the coast guard said Thursday.
OpenAI said on Sept. 8 that autonomous AI agents had produced a proof resolving the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam, and Russian President Vladimir Putin witnessed the exchange of a series of cooperation documents in Moscow on Sept. 9, within the framework of the former's state visit to Russia.
Three Southeast Asian countries have ranked among the world's best retirement destinations in 2026, with Malaysia taking the top spot globally, according to the Rumavi Global Relocation Index.
A family in India's Maharashtra state brought a newborn girl home in a flower-decked chariot in late August, celebrating what it says is its first daughter in roughly 200 years.
Students in China have emerged as the world's top performers in mathematics and science in an international assessment measuring how well education systems prepare 15-year-olds for the challenges of the future as Singapore ranked second in both subjects.
Malaysia's data centers are consuming more power as temperatures rise, leaving a 9 gigawatt gas-fired capacity gap for the government to fill by 2032, officials said on Tuesday.
An air traffic control problem disrupted travel across Britain on Tuesday, canceling more than 1,000 flights and leaving passengers stranded for hours on airport runways and in terminals, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24.
Three international airports run by the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai and Da Nang, have been ranked among those with the greatest improvements in connectivity within their traffic segments.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin agreed on the need to bring about stronger breakthroughs in trade cooperation, noting that the two economies have significant potential and complementary strengths, during their meeting in Moscow on Sept. 8.
Hanoi is studying a four-level underground complex around the Opera House, combined with pedestrian tunnels to improve connections with Trang Tien Street and nearby cultural and art spaces.
Vietnamese rapper Den Vau joined nearly 400 students, most from the Tay and Nung ethnic groups, at the handover of a new library replacing an old storage room at a school in the northern mountainous province of Lang Son.
A Japanese writer who has publicly dismissed postpartum depression as a fabricated illness has announced the birth of her seventh child, drawing 27 million views online.
Phan Hoang Phuong, an associate professor at the University of New South Wales, has built a 3.2-gram wearable patch that monitors a patient's heart and lungs from home.
The United States issued 23% fewer new student and exchange visas in 2025 compared to the previous year, driven by massive declines in approvals for applicants from India and China, according to newly released U.S. Department of State data.
August brought unprecedented extreme weather across Vietnam, as 13 weather stations recorded their highest ever total rainfall for the month, while 32 others matched or exceeded their average temperature records.
The 58-kilometer Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway is nearing completion after more than a decade of setbacks to connect the Mekong Delta to Vietnam's largest airport Long Thanh, providing relief for Ho Chi Minh City's crowded roads.
A Chinese lecturer accused of killing a compatriot in South Korea allegedly did so because he feared their romantic relationship would be exposed and cost him his job, police said.
Hanoi is studying whether to dismantle its city hall and parts of the Hanoi Post Office as it plans to rebuild the historic core around Hoan Kiem Lake.
A Cairo criminal court sentenced Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other defendants to death by hanging for manufacturing and trafficking synthetic drugs.
More than 20 teachers in one of China's poorest counties were made to pose on stage beneath a screen reading "Shame," prompting an apology from the local government.
Thai immigration police have arrested a South Korean man wanted at home over an alleged 10 billion won (US$7.4 million) investment fraud, tracing him from Phuket to a condominium north of Bangkok.
As she approaches 60, Devaki Murch continues her search across the Pacific, piecing together fragments of the past to answer questions about her identity.
Three Vietnamese doctors, a foreign doctor and a foreign nurse happened to be on the same flight from Denmark to Ho Chi Minh City and joined hands to deliver a baby prematurely after a pregnant passenger went into labor.
Two South Korean men have been jailed for beating a compatriot to death at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City after going there in response to a message that their friends had gotten into trouble.
A blanket of haze spread across Singapore on Saturday as wildfires continued to burn in neighboring Indonesia, with dry conditions expected to persist over the coming two weeks.
The CEO of the Vietnam International Financial Center in Ho Chi Minh City could receive a salary of VND450-850 million (US$17,000-32,000) per month under a proposed remuneration scheme by the city.
Australia has suspended international students from enrolling in a management program to prevent them from potentially using it as a pathway to permanent residency.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam, along with his spouse and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam, arrived in Vnukovo international airport in Moscow on Sept. 7 afternoon (local time), beginning his three-day state visit to Russia, at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin.
An eruption of Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau caused six airports to suspend flight operations on Sunday, affecting hundreds of flights at Jakarta's main airport.
An American Airlines flight from Dallas to Newark diverted to Baltimore on Sept. 3 after passengers and crew taped a disruptive traveler to his seat and police arrested him at the gate.
Merchants tracing their roots to a single region of eastern Guangdong Province account for an estimated 70% to 80% of the traders at Huaqiangbei, the world's largest electronics market in Shenzhen.
Two strangers joined a Chinese tourist's chase through Singapore's Boat Quay and helped detain a man who had allegedly snatched her handbag holding S$8,000 (US$6,260) in cash.
A number of universities in the U.K. are cutting postgraduate tuition fees by up to £8,000 (US$10,822) as falling international student numbers threaten revenues and deepen financial pressures.
Vietnam has pledged US$300,000 in emergency humanitarian assistance to support Nepal in the wake of catastrophic flash floods that killed over 1,300 people last week.
Phu Quoc is marshaling its entire political system and public to build the island into a model of security, public order and urban civility ahead of the 2027 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week, with safety, discipline and quality of life as core benchmarks.
Chinese authorities have detained 52 Singaporeans in Guangxi over suspected pyramid scheme activities, Singapore's foreign ministry and police said on Sept. 4.
A drunken British traveler who forced a security officer to press an anti-hijack button at Singapore Changi Airport was jailed for eight weeks and fined S$2,800 (US$2,170) this week.
Key interchanges in Ho Chi Minh City, built three to four levels high and paired with underpasses, keep traffic streams from crossing directly, easing congestion on arterial roads linking the city's ports and airport.
A Google software engineer who was rejected by 16 of the 18 U.S. colleges he applied to can press a racial discrimination claim against the University of Washington, a federal judge has ruled.
Two sailors from the U.S. aircraft carrier making a port call to Thailand were sent back to the ship after a drunken altercation, Thai police said Friday.
A newborn boy was found alive inside a sanitary bin in a disabled-access toilet at Penang International Airport, prompting police to detain a Malaysian woman and a Myanmar man to investigate.
The Hanoi Department of Science and Technology has launched and put into operation a mini app called "Ban do mua ngap" (Rainfall and Flooding Map) on the iHanoi digital citizen application.
Thach Thi Phat Ca Di, 32, has spent nearly a decade teaching Khmer in Tay Ninh Province's remote border area, where she is now one of only three teachers of the language.
Nearly 40 primary schools in Tay Ninh Province need new or repaired sanitation facilities, with aging and overcrowded toilets leaving students and teachers struggling with basic hygiene.
International students at these 20 U.S. universities pay an average of US$24,200 for the 2025-2026 academic year, more than half the nation's overall average, according to U.S. News & World Report.
A Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced 11 people to death and 19 to life in one of Vietnam's largest drug cases, with the alleged ringleader convicted in absentia.
A test drive of a home-built, remotely controlled car took an unfortunate turn in Islamabad when the vehicle crashed straight into a parked police van during a demonstration.
International students planning to study in Canada must now prove they have at least CA$23,448 (US$16,952) in annual living expenses following a new government mandate that took effect on Sept. 1.
A team at the Institute of Materials Science has developed a polyethylene foam to house wastewater-treating microbes, giving Vietnamese factories a domestic alternative to imported filtration media.
A 39-year-old Chinese national has been apprehended in northern Vietnam after allegedly robbing a grocery store in Hai Phong City of VND145 million (US$5,500) at knifepoint.
The Thai government has launched a programme providing the public with access to commercial artificial intelligence (AI) tools after more than 1.3 million people registered in advance in less than two weeks.
Who am I? Who are my parents? Why was I abandoned? Where do I belong? ... Dozens of such questions have haunted the Babylift children for the past 50 years.
