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Most people picture Vietnam's natural disasters as typhoons and floods, not earthquakes. But halfway through this month, Vietnam has already had two. 'Vietnam isn't in a seismic zone' is true — stretching that into 'no earthquakes' misses what's actually happening.
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Vietnam's airport Fast Track is a service most other countries don't sell. Pay a small fee, skip a long immigration line, and ride a lane originally meant for diplomats. Klook and GetYourGuide carry the listings. Vietnamese passports cannot use them.
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How Vietnam's Labor Ministry designed an approval process that workers paid for, $500 at a time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vietnamese shops and homes keep their Earth God and God of Wealth altars on the ground floor, facing the door. The reason is both spiritual and practical.
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Vietnam's airlines are cutting over a thousand flights in April and May after China and Thailand halted jet fuel exports.
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G-Dragon sold out two Hanoi shows in three days. 2NE1 reunited in Ho Chi Minh City. Alicia Keys made her Vietnam debut. In 2025, Vietnam went from a market that global tours skipped to a key stop on the Asian concert circuit.
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Vingroup quit Vietnam's $67 billion north-south high-speed rail bid on Christmas Day, days after signing a Siemens deal for a separate line. The exit exposed the tensions between state ambition, private capital, and geopolitics.
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Vietnamese actor Liên Bỉnh Phát won Best Actor at Taiwan's Golden Bell Awards, the first Vietnamese recipient in the ceremony's 60-year history. A former tour guide who started acting at 26, he donated half his prize money to migrant worker organizations.
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Most Vietnamese do not observe the winter solstice. But step into Chợ Lớn, one of the world's largest Chinatowns, and the festive atmosphere is unmistakable — driven by tang yuan, reunion dinners, and centuries of tradition.