Vietnam
Math Olympiad silver. Stanford. Google Brain. xAI. OpenAI. Phạm Hy Hiếu spent fifteen years reaching the front lines of AI. Seven months later, he took his family home.
Aviation
China and Thailand have banned jet fuel exports after the Middle East conflict disrupted the Strait of Hormuz. Vietnam may begin large-scale flight cuts as early as April.
Collaboration Column
Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions, we examine four culture shocks Taiwanese workers most commonly encounter in Vietnamese workplaces—starting with the surprising realization that it's rarely about the job itself.
Vietnam Profile
He was cut from Vietnam Idol before even reaching the judges. A decade later, he's the only Vietnamese artist to chart on Billboard. How Sơn Tùng M-TP went from a small town in Thái Bình to the international stage.
Vietnam
Phạm Nhật Vượng's fortune reaches $27.7 billion in 2026, as Vietnam sets a new record with eight Forbes billionaires.
Vietnam
Indonesian BNPL unicorn Kredivo has reportedly acquired Vietnam's first digital bank Timo, planning to invest $15 million over three years to merge consumer lending with digital banking on a single platform.
Vietnam
Vietnam holds its once-every-five-years national election tomorrow, with 73.5 million voters choosing 500 National Assembly representatives — the first election after sweeping administrative reforms.
Vietnam
Fuel prices surge 27% and Ho Chi Minh City's Metro Line 1 ridership jumps nearly 25%, from 52,000 to almost 60,000 daily passengers in one week.
Vietnam
After VN-Index's record single-day crash, billionaire heirs and company founders registered to buy over VND 2 trillion worth of their own stocks within two days.
Monthly magazine
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Vietnam
Wujia Tea is barely known in Taiwan. In Vietnam, it used a cart franchise model to open 400 stores in six years, overtaking every other Taiwanese bubble tea brand in the country.
Stock Market
The VN-Index lost over 100 points on March 9 — the biggest single-day drop in Vietnamese stock market history. Oil at USD 118 and margin calls turned a bad week into a historic crash.