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Vietnam's 2026 graduation exam asked students how the country can produce its own Steve Jobs, and the whole country started arguing. Line up the twelve essay questions asked since 2015 and you can see exactly where this one came from.
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Schmidt says Vietnam's treasure is its people. Vietnam is using a homegrown model, national labs and chips to push AI up to the level of national sovereignty. But the whole bet may come down to something far more basic: power.
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In Ho Chi Minh City, more young people are skipping the club on weekends to pour their own scented candle or zone out for an afternoon at a healing cafe. Healing is becoming something Vietnam's Gen Z will happily pay for.
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Over 30 years, Thai capital quietly became Vietnam's eighth-largest foreign investor by buying local brands, building an ecosystem, and tracking the diplomatic upgrade. Now Thai firms want to list directly in Ho Chi Minh City — a shift from quiet acquisition to the public stage.
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He swept the beaches of Ha Long Bay for seven years. Then his plain-spoken 'autobiographical rap' about ordinary lives turned him into a singer who reaches across generations in Vietnam — and he poured the money back into rural classrooms.
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Vietnam has about 500,000 coffee shops, and all major chains combined still account for less than 1% of the market. Chains and street vendors aren't really competing — they sell completely different things.
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MWG is spinning off Vietnam's biggest consumer electronics chain, Điện Máy Xanh, at a near-USD 4 billion valuation — but all proceeds repay the parent's short-term debt, and retail investors get a free float of under 15%.
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More than 30 empty storefronts on one stretch of Hanoi's Kim Mã street. Rents in some wards down 37% from 2025 peaks. And landlords still can't find tenants. The reason is structural, not seasonal.
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Roughly 2.56 million households exempted from tax; mandatory e-invoicing above the threshold; a 12-year-old union fee finally tied to social insurance. Vietnam's three new decrees are rolling out across the first half of 2026.
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When Vietnam introduced its two-child policy in 1988, the country's fertility rate was still above 4. Almost 40 years later, the same government is about to start paying women to have babies.
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Vietnam has climbed into Numbeo's global top ten for unaffordable housing. Buying a home now takes over 30 years of income, and homes are drifting away from wages.
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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.