After a string of failed ventures, Ngo Huynh Trang went home and put all her money into turning 6 hectares of family forest into an eco-tourism site on the edge of a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
Four Chinese nationals pleaded not guilty in a Malaysian court on Sept. 10 to kidnapping a 72-year-old Singaporean man at Penang International Airport and holding him for a S$1 million ransom, about $780,000.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed a workday swap that would extend the inaugural Vietnamese Culture Day holiday into a four-day weekend at the end of November.
The Hoan Kiem Lake area in downtown Hanoi is set for a new look, with a number of existing buildings to be taken down, more public space added and a triumphal arch built as its centerpiece.
A California security firm used artificial intelligence to build a worm that could hijack WeChat accounts through a single unanswered call, putting more than a billion users at risk before the flaw was fixed.
As many as 59% of Vietnamese students cannot use reading comprehension knowledge and information to handle real-world situations, according to a global assessment of 15-year-olds by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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