VNeID, Vietnam's police-run digital ID app, has more than 60 million activated accounts. It can stand in for a citizen's ID card, accounts on 12 kinds of digital platforms must now be linked to it, and foreigners who enter or live in Vietnam legally can apply.
Vietnam's stock market looks a lot like Taiwan's, but you can't sell until the afternoon of T+2, you need cash up front, and short selling isn't allowed. A rule-by-rule comparison.
Ho Chi Minh City sits barely above the sea. Heavy rain, twice-monthly spring tides, filled-in canals and sinking ground all push water into its streets.
Time Out picked the low-rise blocks behind the pink church, not the wall everyone photographs.
Tết Trung Thu is not a day off in Vietnam, and children are its stars. It began as a harvest night for adults, until the lanterns and toys made for kids gave it a second name.
Vietnam's public hospitals charge about a third of Taiwan's price for a dental implant. Australians are already flying in, and the government wants dentistry to anchor its medical tourism push.
Vietnamese speakers may begin a negative answer with dạ because the word marks a polite response, not necessarily agreement.
Vietnam's premium gyms once relied on large clubs, rapid expansion and long memberships, but operators are now reassessing every location.
The Viet Media Pro is here. From October our articles split into free and paid tiers, with at least four in-depth pieces a month for Pro members. It all started with a survey.
Wu's Tea's Vietnamese operator landed on Ho Chi Minh City's tax debt list. Here is what these lists are, who gets on them and what happens next.
Tesla's new Vietnam company is licensed to import, wholesale and retail cars, but the carmaker has not announced models, prices or a launch date.
Vajiralongkorn visited Vietnam twice as crown prince. This is his first trip as king, and the first state visit by a Thai king and queen since the two countries established ties.
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On the same day, Vingroup founder Phạm Nhật Vượng's two sons became CEOs of VinFast and taxi operator GSM. One inherits a carmaker losing more than USD 1 billion a quarter; the other runs a company aiming for a Hong Kong listing in 2028.
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Pizza 4P's has entered the US with a Brooklyn restaurant after 15 years of building its brand and cheese operation in Vietnam.
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Johnson Health Tech's second Bac Ninh plant opened in August. Once both Vietnam plants run at full capacity, the company says Vietnam will overtake Shanghai as its largest production base. It went there in 2019 for lower costs; since 2025, a 7.5-point US tariff gap has kept output moving.
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Vinasun cut its headcount to a tenth of what it was, switched half its fleet to Toyota hybrids, and still posted its first loss since 2021. First Grab, then Xanh SM. Now Ho Chi Minh City gets to decide whether a hybrid counts as green.
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The same IMF report says Vietnam overtakes Thailand this year on purchasing power but not until 2029 in dollars. The difference is exchange rates, and per capita Vietnam is still at 60% of Thailand.
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Vietnam's housing sales fell by nearly a third in mid-2026 and Hanoi resale apartments dropped for the first time since 2022, but developers would rather raffle a Lamborghini than cut prices.
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Her songs are the soundtrack of a generation, she is the only Vietnamese singer to headline the national stadium alone, and her top ticket costs more than BLACKPINK's. A profile of Mỹ Tâm, 25 years into her career.
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Four suitcases, 157 toothpaste tubes, and three years later a trial of 227 people. Police put the network's cash flow at nearly VND 29 trillion and call it the largest drug case in Vietnam's history.
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Bamboo Airways once flew 787s to London and Sydney. Today one Airbus A321 carries its entire schedule, and the gap between the airline's recovery plans and its actual fleet has never been wider.
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Leave a Vietnamese company idle and the system assumes it is still trading. Penalties pile up year after year, the tax authority is now chasing 290,000 such firms, and owners can be barred from leaving the country.
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Vietnam's crypto penalty decree is in force, but the countdown for offshore exchange users only starts with the country's first license, still unissued at press time.
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Vietnam's 30.8% growth makes it Haidilao's fastest-growing major market, within a million dollars of overtaking the US and Malaysia.