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Feature
Woman’s AI-generated itinerary for 12-day solo Vietnam trip goes viral on TikTok
A Singaporean woman has gone viral on TikTok for using artificial intelligence (AI) to plan her 12-day solo trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. The wom...
Ryan General
Music
V-pop star Amee has TikTokers dancing like a cat to her new song ‘Ung Qua Chung’
Vietnamese pop singer Amee has gone viral on TikTok for her cute cat dance. Choreographed for her song, “Ung Qua Chung,” the dance highligh...
Iris Jung
Crime
Mỹ Lai massacre: 55 years since one of the US Army’s worst atrocities of the 20th century
On March 16, 1968, more than 500 unarmed civilians were brutally killed in a mass murder committed by U.S. troops in South Vietnam during th...
Ana Yoo
Government
S. Korea appeals court ruling ordering compensation for survivors of Vietnam War massacre
South Korea has appealed a court ruling that ordered its government to compensate a Vietnamese victim 30 million won (approximately $23,000)...
Michelle De Pacina
Entertainment
‘The House of No Man’: Vietnam’s highest-grossing film comes to US theaters
Director Tran Thanh’s newest drama film, “The House of No Man” (“Nha Ba Nu”), arrives in the U.S. this Friday across...
Ines Shin
‘Furies’ trailer: Veronica Ngo directs Netflix prequel to Vietnamese box office smash
Netflix has released the trailer for “Furies,” the much-anticipated prequel to the 2019 Vietnamese box office smash “Furie...
Beauty
Vietnamese model Dahan Phuong Oanh proves to be a rising star in NYFW debut
Dahan Phuong Oanh is one of the year’s most in-demand models, as evidenced by her New York Fashion Week (NYFW) debut. The 23-year-old...
Vietnamese police discover 2,000 dead cats intended for use in traditional medicine
Vietnamese police have discovered the bodies of 2,000 dead cats that were intended for use in traditional medicine. The dead felines were un...
Business
Vietnamese EV company VinFast to open over 30 showrooms in California
Vietnamese electric vehicle company VinFast is expanding its presence in California with plans for over 20 additional locations in the state...
News
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...
Carl Samson
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...
Isa Peralta
Food
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...
Chandler Treon
Economy
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 ...
Daniel Anderson
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
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...
Rebecca Moon
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...
Health
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...
Jane Nam
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...
Celine Pun
Tech
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...
Film & TV
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...
Art
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...
Bryan Ke
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...
Civil Rights
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...