A 45-day sweep in Ho Chi Minh City checked more than 1,600 lodgings and turned up nearly 300 foreigners breaking the law. Bac Ninh raided a 23-person scam base. The target isn't overstaying tourists — it's cross-border online fraud, and two new decrees just handed police the tools to hit hard.
Vietnam
Hanoi broke ground on five metro lines at once, more than 300km in total, due in four years. The number to watch isn't the budget — it's three changes in how it's being built.
Vietnam
From July, Vietnamese airlines must refund and compensate passengers for long delays. But the money only flows when the delay is the airline's own fault — so can VietJet, famous for late flights, slip through?
Vietnam's weather agency puts the odds of a "very strong" El Niño at 60-65%, with the drought zone centered on the Central Highlands — the engine of the world's largest robusta supply.
Vietnam
Vietnam's Resolution 10 shifts FDI from quantity to quality. The capital target barely moved — what changed is the incentive logic: from granted on arrival to paid on performance, with clawbacks. An opening for tech-bearing investors, a warning for pure assembly.
Vietnam
2026 is the Year of the Horse. Saigon's century-old Phú Thọ Racetrack — once Asia's largest — is being turned into a park. Here's the story it leaves behind.
Politics
The UN cybercrime convention will be signed in Hanoi — the first international treaty ever named after Vietnam.
Technology
Professor Hoang Chi Thien became the first Vietnamese scholar to win Taiwan's Young Astronomer Lectureship Award.
Vietnam
[Leaving the West, Returning to the Place Their Parents Left — The Việt Kiều Reverse Migration] Half a million Vietnamese return from overseas every year. Of those, 25,000 choose to stay. They're not tourists. They're not just visiting family. They're reverse migrants — raised and
Economy
DW spotlighted Vietnam's 7% GDP growth and USD 25 billion in FDI for 2024, while flagging trade-war risks ahead.
Vietnam
Tết means closed shops, pricier hotels, and empty ATMs. But an empty Ho Chi Minh City might be something you'll only ever see once.
Business
Vietnam's Highland Coffee and Taiwan's Milksha share an owner: Philippines' Jollibee, which operates local F&B brands across 17 countries.