Body of Vietnamese boy trapped in concrete pillar recovered weeks after he fell in

Before you read: 10-year-old boy trapped in pit in Vietnam no longer responding to rescuers 10-year-old boy stuck in deep pit in Vietnam dec...

Vietnam president resigns following blame for officials’ ‘wrongdoing’

Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned on Tuesday after the Communist party found him responsible for the wrongdoings of junior officia...

Vietnamese university, military school deny sexual assault and suicide of female students during retreat

A university and a military school in Vietnam have denied rumors of sexual assault and suicide involving female students in mandatory traini...

10-year-old boy stuck in deep pit in Vietnam declared dead

Before you read: 10-year-old boy trapped in pit in Vietnam no longer responding to rescuers Ly Hao Nam, the 10-year-old who fell 115 feet i...

10-year-old boy trapped in pit in Vietnam no longer responding to rescuers

A 10-year-old boy who fell into a 10-inch-wide pit on New Year’s Eve while looking for scrap metal with his friends at a bridge construction...

Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast opens 4 new stores in California 

Before you read: Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast to open first 6 showrooms in US this week Vietnamese EV maker VinFast ships 999 cars for US...

Gordon Ramsay names Laos and Vietnam as world’s top food destinations

Gordon Ramsay named Laos and Vietnam as the world’s top food destinations in a recent interview. During a trip to Seoul, the 56-year-o...

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast files US IPO, selects T-Mobile as internet provider

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. and selected T-Mobile as its connectivity pr...

65-year-old Vietnamese ‘drug queen’ arrested after years on the run as international fugitive

Vũ Hoàng Oanh, a 65-year-old drug lord considered one of Vietnam's biggest "drug queens," was arrested after evading capture...

60 Vietnamese nationals collectively run for freedom from human traffickers in Cambodia

A group of 60 Vietnamese nationals collectively ran for freedom from a Cambodian casino where they were being exploited and held as prisone...

Vietnamese girl group DREAMeR accused of plagiarizing BLACKPINK

A Vietnamese girl group called DREAMeR is being accused of plagiarizing K-pop group BLACKPINK. DREAMeR’s teaser poster has black and pink ...

Hundreds of Vietnamese officers surrounded house of ‘Onion Leaf Bae’ to arrest him, wife says

Bui Tuan Lam, a Vietnamese noodle vendor, was arrested on Wednesday over a video that was widely viewed as mocking a senior government offi...

Vietnam arrests noodle vendor for his viral imitation of Salt Bae

Bui Tuan Lam, a Vietnamese noodle vendor, was arrested on Wednesday over a video that was widely viewed as mocking a senior government offi...

Vietnam’s deadliest karaoke bar fire kills more than 30 people

A fire broke out at a karaoke complex in southern Vietnam on Tuesday night, killing 17 men and 15 women, according to the Binh Duong provin...

2 Vietnamese psychiatric patients sentenced to death for running drug operation out of hospital

Two men were sentenced to death on Aug. 31 for storing, facilitating, using and selling over 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of drugs at the Natio...

54-year-old Vietnamese American man scammed out of $139,000 by online lover

A 35-year-old woman in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is being investigated for allegedly scamming a Vietnamese American man out of $139,000. Do...

Vietnam declares being gay ‘not an illness’ 32 years after WHO declassification of homosexuality as disease

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health declared homosexuality as “not a disease” in a directive to provincial and municipal health departments on Aug...

Organ donation in Vietnam becoming more accepted despite cultural taboo

The Vietnam National Coordinating Center for Human Organ Transplantation revealed that nearly 50,000 people have registered for organ donat...

Vietnamese billionaires commit to building 1 million affordable housing units in the country by 2030

Some of Vietnam’s largest real estate developers have committed to building over 1 million affordable housing units collectively from now t...

Tô Văn Lai, creator of ‘Paris by Night,’ dies at 85

In 1983, Tô Văn Lai produced the first “Paris by Night” show to reach Vietnamese refugees living in France who felt distant from their cult...

Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast to open first 6 showrooms in US this week

Vietnamese Electric Vehicle (EV) automaker VinFast is scheduled to open six U.S. showrooms on Jul 14 and 30 more by the end of 2022, all of...

New sci-fi kids’ film ‘Maika’ reintroduces character so beloved that some Vietnamese named their children after her

“Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy” is the first Vietnamese science fiction feature film for children. The sci-fi movie, which was direc...

Young Vietnamese car enthusiasts build Bugatti Chiron replica using clay in viral video

A viral Twitter video shows a group of friends in Vietnam using clay to construct a replica Bugatti.  The video has amassed over 10 millio...

Vietnamese man sold his daughter, 13, to Chinese traffickers for $4,300 to pay for medical treatment

Lo Pho Pheng, a 47-year-old Vietnamese father, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling his 13-year-old daughter to human trafficker...

Vietnamese man spends 18 nights at sea paddling an inflatable boat to India to reunite with his wife

Thai fishermen reportedly rescued a Vietnamese man who they found paddling an inflatable boat around 80 kilometers (49.71 miles) off the so...

Vietnamese peace activist, writer and Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh dies at 95

Prominent Buddhist monk, writer and Vietnamese peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh passed away at the age of ninety-five. Plum Village, the first...

Human rights journalist in Vietnam sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for ‘conducting propaganda’

A renowned journalist dubbed the “leading voice for human rights” in Vietnam by Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaig...

First Vietnamese to win Exceptional Bravery at Sea award: ‘It is just humanity that motivates us’

Tran Van Khoi is the first Vietnamese citizen to ever receive the Exceptional Bravery at Sea award.  First awarded: The International Mariti...

Vietnam’s Hoi An city pledges to phase out dog and cat meat consumption

The Vietnamese city of Hoi An will phase out dog and cat meat sale and consumption. Although other cities have discouraged eating dog and ...

New $1 billion Lego factory in Vietnam planned to be 100% powered by solar energy

Lego is responding to growing demands in Asia by investing $1 billion to build a toy factory in Vietnam. Second site in Asia: In a recent pr...

42-year-old Vietnamese refugee ready for deportation after being behind bars since he was 15 in Hong Kong

A 42-year-old Vietnamese refugee who was jailed as a 15-year-old boy in Hong Kong has given up efforts to fight deportation, as the move app...

Rep. Pham, daughter of Vietnamese refugees, comes ‘full circle’ to welcome Afghan refugees to Oregon

An Oregon state representative wants to give a proper welcome to the Afghan refugees who will be arriving in the state early next year. A pr...

Vietnam Airlines become first in history to offer direct commercial flights between Vietnam and US

On Monday, the first commercial nonstop flight from Vietnam to the United States was successfully completed by flag carrier Vietnam Airlines...

500 Vietnamese forced laborers at Chinese factory in Serbia have only two toilets, report alleges

Around 500 migrant workers from Vietnam are being exploited at a Chinese-run company in Serbia, local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) r...