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That Song VietJet Plays When You Land — "Hello Vietnam"
The story, lyrics, and meaning behind 'Hello Vietnam' — the song VietJet plays on every landing.
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Math Olympiad Silver, Stanford, Google Brain — Vietnam's Top AI Engineer Left OpenAI
Math Olympiad silver. Stanford. Google Brain. xAI. OpenAI. Phạm Hy Hiếu spent fifteen years reaching the front lines of AI. Seven months later, he took his family home.
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Taiwan Professionals in Vietnam: 4 Cultural Shocks When J-Types Meet P-Types at Work
Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions, we examine four culture shocks Taiwanese workers most commonly encounter in Vietnamese workplaces—starting with the surprising realization that it's rarely about the job itself.
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Vietnam Hits a Record 8 Billionaires on the Forbes Global List — Three From One Family
Phạm Nhật Vượng's fortune reaches $27.7 billion in 2026, as Vietnam sets a new record with eight Forbes billionaires.
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Indonesian Fintech Unicorn Kredivo Reportedly Acquires Vietnam's First Digital Bank Timo
Indonesian BNPL unicorn Kredivo has reportedly acquired Vietnam's first digital bank Timo, planning to invest $15 million over three years to merge consumer lending with digital banking on a single platform.
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73.5 Million Vietnamese Vote Tomorrow — How Elections Work Under One-Party Rule
Vietnam holds its once-every-five-years national election tomorrow, with 73.5 million voters choosing 500 National Assembly representatives — the first election after sweeping administrative reforms.
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Soaring Fuel Prices Give Ho Chi Minh City's New Metro an Unexpected Boost
Fuel prices surge 27% and Ho Chi Minh City's Metro Line 1 ridership jumps nearly 25%, from 52,000 to almost 60,000 daily passengers in one week.
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Vietnam's Billionaire Heirs Go Bottom-Fishing After Historic Market Crash
After VN-Index's record single-day crash, billionaire heirs and company founders registered to buy over VND 2 trillion worth of their own stocks within two days.
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From Millions in Debt to 400 Stores in Vietnam: The Wujia Tea Story
Wujia Tea is barely known in Taiwan. In Vietnam, it used a cart franchise model to open 400 stores in six years, overtaking every other Taiwanese bubble tea brand in the country.
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VietCharm: A 90-Minute Dining Show Inside Saigon's Independence Palace
Ho Chi Minh City's Independence Palace has a new act — VietCharm, a 90-minute dining show pairing 9 traditional performances with 8 Vietnamese fusion courses. Its first three days sold out completely.
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Smuggling Gold Into Vietnam Carries Up to 10 Years in Prison. People Keep Trying.
Four Vietnamese passengers hid 31 suspected gold bars in their bras and underwear on a flight from Taiwan. Hanoi customs caught them using X-rays and risk profiling. Bringing gold bars into Vietnam is illegal — the maximum sentence is 10 years.
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Vovinam: The Vietnamese Martial Art Practiced in 70 Countries
Born in 1938 in colonial Hanoi, Vovinam has grown from an underground resistance art to a global sport practiced in over 70 countries — complete with a signature flying scissor kick, an inverted belt ranking, and a UN partnership.