Vietnam Life
Vietnam runs a 5-4-3 school system where students choose their path right after junior high. One exam decides both graduation and university admission. Tutoring costs 4 million VND a month. Adjusted for income, Vietnamese students score just behind Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea.
Vietnam People
In 1980 he became the first Asian to win the Chopin Competition. Forty-five years later, his students have won it three more times.
Vietnam Economy
VinSpeed broke ground on Vietnam's first cross-region high-speed rail — 120 km, $5.6 billion, 2028 operation. The real story isn't the speed. It's where the stations are.
Vietnam Politics
Le Minh Hung, Vietnam's youngest-ever central bank governor, was unanimously elected prime minister. Here's what his background, cabinet, and political constraints mean for the country's economic direction.
Vietnam
Vietnam's Q1 GDP growth looks impressive at 7.83%, but dig deeper and a structural imbalance emerges — foreign firms dominate exports while domestic companies fall behind.
Taiwan
Cooler Master plans to invest $3 billion in Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, transforming from a PC case maker into a global hub for AI server liquid cooling — the latest signal of Taiwanese manufacturers accelerating their shift to Vietnam.
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A retired Taiwanese major with an electrical engineering degree from Columbia took KMT money to Vietnam in 1989. His three ventures — Tan Thuan EPZ, Hiep Phuoc power plant, and Phu My Hung — are all still standing. He didn't live to see it.
Vietnam Real Estate
Vietnam's mortgage rates doubled in under a year, with floating rates hitting 12-14%. Rising deposit costs, tighter central bank policy, and inflation pressure are squeezing borrowers from all sides.
Vietnam People
Nine years after freestyling in front of President Obama, Suboi wrote the theme song for the 30th anniversary of US–Vietnam relations — the name through which Vietnamese hip-hop first reached the world stage.
Vietnam
Burger King closed all its Hanoi stores, leaving just 4 in Vietnam. Shake Shack is about to walk in. McDonald's took a decade to open 39 stores. The challenges burger brands face in Vietnam go well beyond price.
Labor Market
Vietnam's north-south salary gap is closing fast, but factories still can't hire enough workers — the real divide is generational.
Vietnam Business
2025 was the year foreign brands in Vietnam shifted from testing the waters to competing at scale — but the market also claimed 50,000 F&B casualties.