Guest Column
Career coach Sunny has counseled hundreds of professionals considering overseas moves. Her key advice — strong motivation does not equal a clear path.
Vietnam
Lunar New Year is coming, and every Vietnamese worker has one question on their mind: how much is the company giving this year?
Vietnam
Vietnam's domestic gold price surged over 100% in a year, but the appetite for gold hasn't cooled. Long queues, wedding cost crises, and gold-denominated debts — rising prices are changing how Vietnamese people live.
Vietnam
In January 2026, Vietnam's Digital Technology Industry Law took effect, giving crypto assets legal status for the first time. The world's fifth-largest crypto market finally has rules.
Vietnam
In January 2026, Tô Lâm won a unanimous 180-vote re-election as General Secretary. A profile of the former security chief who became Vietnam's most powerful leader since Hồ Chí Minh.
In-depth report
Last night, Vietnam's Vietlott computer lottery drew a jackpot of VND 257 billion — roughly USD 10 million. It was the second-largest prize in Vietnamese lottery history, behind only the VND 345 billion jackpot drawn last July. But these overnight-fortune stories only scratch the surface. There is far more
Industry
Vietnam's lottery industry pulls in USD 6.5 billion a year. Behind the jackpots are 500,000 street vendors earning under USD 10 a day.
Sixty years of the Golden Bell Awards. For the first time, a Vietnamese actor takes Best Actor. First Vietnamese Best Actor in 60 years On the Golden Bell Awards night this October, 35-year-old Vietnamese actor Lien Binh Phat walked onstage in a traditional ao dai to accept the Best Leading
On January 16, Vietnam's General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a groundbreaking ceremony together. The site: Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park on the outskirts of Ha Noi. The centerpiece: a 27-hectare chip fabrication plant — Vietnam's first ever. The announcement sparked an obvious
Walk into a pho restaurant in Orange County, California, and you might hear the owner greeting customers in Vietnamese, a South Vietnamese flag hanging on the wall. This is "Little Saigon" — the world's largest Vietnamese diaspora community, and the spiritual capital of overseas Vietnamese culture. The
Diaspora
Vietnam's 6 million overseas diaspora sends USD 16 billion home annually. From the boat people exodus to new dual citizenship laws, the Viet Kieu story.
Culture
Vietnam has nearly 80 million motorcycles for 100 million people. The motorbike is not just transport -- it is a way of life.