Having helped develop Grok 3, once described by Elon Musk as the "smartest AI on Earth," a Vietnamese engineer believes introducing specialized AI classes is unnecessary in high schools, which should instead focus on strengthening mathematics.

Most university students, even at elite American institutions like Yale, treat mathematics as an obstacle to clear rather than a tool to use, according to Vu Ha Van, one of Vietnam's most internationally cited mathematicians.

Nguyen Xuan Long, a globally recognized expert in statistical inference and machine learning currently based in the United States, is set to return to Vietnam regularly to supervise doctoral students.

Canada is proposing the broadest redesign of its flagship skilled-worker immigration system in more than a decade, and the early blueprint would remove several of the scoring advantages that international students and applicants with Canadian family ties have long relied on to win permanent residence.

Expansion works at the depot serving the Sengkang-Punggol, one of Singapore's three light rail transit (LRT) lines, have entered their final stages and are on track for completion in 2027, according to the Land Transport Authority (LTA).

A 12th-grade Vietnamese chemistry student scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT after rebuilding his test strategy around a single rule: handle the easy questions first and never leave time off the clock for review.

Canada is considering allowing international students to work without a permit while waiting for their documents to be renewed, as application backlogs have pushed processing times to around 250 days.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man conveyed an invitation from Party General Secretary and President To Lam to Pope Leo XIV to pay an official visit to Vietnam as he met with the pope at the Vatican on April 11.

Singapore plans to equip at least 10,000 students over the next five years with skills in physical AI, a rapidly growing frontier where artificial intelligence is embedded into robots, drones, and autonomous machines rather than confined to screens.

A drug kingpin who ran a vast trafficking network used four unwitting Vietnam Airlines flight attendants to smuggle narcotics from France concealed inside toothpaste tubes, police said.

Nam leaned against a rare patch of shade on Vo Van Kiet Street in Ho Chi Minh City, drained the last of his water bottle, and exhaled. His face was flushed red, his green delivery jacket soaked through.

A waste dump in central Vietnam has been burning for more than a week, sending smoke across a section of the country's main North-South Expressway and forcing families in a nearby village to send their children away.

Vietnam aims to develop at least five cities of international standing by 2045 under a Government action program on sustainable urban planning and development.

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong is encouraging Singapore residents to help ease the pressure of an ongoing energy crunch by opting for fans instead of air-conditioning and choosing public transport over personal vehicles.

Vietnam's General Party Secretary and State President To Lam, along with his spouse and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, will pay a state visit to China from April 14-17.

Indonesia remained Southeast Asia's most polluted country in 2025, with average fine-particle pollution running at six times the World Health Organization's safe limit despite a nearly 16% year-on-year improvement, according to IQAir's 2025 World Air Quality Report.

The Politburo has appointed Tran Duc Thang as Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee for the 2025-2030 term.

Spanish model Andrea Aybar paid her personal assistant VND10 million (US$385) a month to drive her to work, film her social media videos and, prosecutors say, keep her supplied with methamphetamine for drug parties at her luxury Ho Chi Minh City apartment.

Vietnam entered the second day of a widespread heatwave on Tuesday, with temperatures rising 1-2 degrees Celsius compared to Monday, and many locations in the northern and central regions recording readings above 40 C (104 F).

A Vietnamese orthopedic surgeon set up an emergency IV line and revived an unconscious Japanese woman on a Tokyo-bound flight last weekend, working in a cramped cabin as the aircraft began its descent into Haneda Airport.

Vietnam's Party General Secretary and State President To Lam visited the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province on April 14, shortly after arriving in Beijing International Airport for his four-day state visit to China.

Ho Chi Minh City will relocate more than 400 trees along several roads in the center to make way for construction of metro line No. 2 between Ben Thanh and Tham Luong.

Applications for U.K. study visas have dropped significantly compared with last year, deepening financial concerns among universities.

Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh and Van Giang placed among the 100 most polluted cities across Asia in 2025, while Hanoi was named the seventh most polluted capital city in the world with fine dust concentration more than nine times the safe level set by the World Health Organization, a new report has found.

Australia on Monday said a woman would lead its army for the first time in history, as part of a reshuffle of the country's defense force leadership.

The heatwave currently burning across Vietnam is expected to ease by the end of next week as a late-season cold air mass from China pushes south.

A 120-kilometer railway with a designed speed of 350 kph, connecting Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Hai Phong, and Quang Ninh, broke ground on Sunday morning.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man had a meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on April 11 (local time).

VnExpress International celebrates its 10th anniversary today, marking a decade of telling millions of global readers stories about Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

A Vietnamese student's research into the hidden power of Taylor Swift's lyrics has won her a place at the University of Oxford, the world's top-ranked university, without even being called for an interview.

Two foreign tourists riding a motorbike lost control on a sharp downhill bend on Vietnam's Ha Giang loop on April 8 and slid across the road into the path of an oncoming truck, stopping just inches from its front bumper after the driver braked in time.

Police in Saitama Prefecture detained six Vietnamese nationals on Thursday on suspicion of robbery-homicide following the death of a fellow countryman on New Year's Day.

Airfares and train ticket prices have surged ahead of the April 30-May 1 holiday, with many routes hitting fare caps and seats in peak time slots selling out quickly despite airlines adding extra flights.

A widespread heatwave scorching northern and central Vietnam is forecast to last until mid-April, while southern areas could endure the extreme temperatures into early May, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Alex Chui made history at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad in July 2025 when he claimed his fourth gold medal, joining one of the most exclusive clubs in competitive mathematics.

Organized fraud rings pushed out of Cambodia and other regional havens are shifting their operations to Vietnam, using luxury apartments and gated villa compounds in Hanoi as new bases to run online scams targeting victims across Asia, the Hanoi Department of Public Security said.

Indonesian prosecutors charged 19 people with human trafficking on Tuesday for their alleged roles in buying babies from new parents and selling them at a profit to clients at home and abroad.

Hue, home to Vietnam's former Imperial Citadel, is preparing to open the Thuan An sea-crossing bridge, the longest in the central region, to ease connections across key economic zones.

Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has announced plans to build the country's first 3D-printed concrete pedestrian bridge, expected to be completed and put into operation in 2028, helping shorten travel time between the Jurong West and Tengah residential areas.

Many top positions by India and Singapore in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject exposed a regional split in which South and Southeast Asia rose and East Asia's traditional powerhouses slid backward.

An essay about his late mother and engineering, four research projects he had undertaken and a passion for sports helped Le Duy An get admission to Princeton, the top university in the U.S.

South Korean low-cost carrier T'way Air will furlough some of its cabin crew without pay in May and June, the country's first airline to take such a step as the war on Iran sends jet fuel prices soaring and compounds losses that ballooned more than 20-fold last year.

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, accompanied by his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, departed Hanoi on April 14 for a four-day state visit to China.

Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh and Van Giang placed among the 100 most polluted cities across Asia in 2025, while Hanoi was named the seventh most polluted capital city in the world with fine dust concentration more than nine times the safe level set by the World Health Organization, a new report has found.

The owner of a banh mi shop in the beach town of Vung Tau, now a ward of Ho Chi Minh City, has been fined VND32 million (US$1,214) for violating food safety regulations after 108 people were hospitalized with food poisoning.

The strong heatwave affecting Vietnam is expected to subside by the end of next week as a late-season cold air mass from China moves south.

A 9-year-old boy has been rescued after living locked in his father's utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father detained.

South Korea will strengthen oversight of international students by conducting joint government inspections of universities, officials announced this week.

Harvard is once again the university American students want most, according to a new survey, even as the school fights a federal lawsuit and faces funding cuts that have made national headlines for months.

A computing workbook used in Vietnamese primary schools for the past three years has been printing a link to a pornographic website in an exercise meant to teach 8-year-olds how to use a mouse scroll wheel.

Traffic on some of Hanoi's most notoriously congested arteries, including Nguyen Trai, Giai Phong and Lang, has flowed noticeably more freely after the city started banning trucks of 2 metric tons and above from entering the inner streets during daytime hours from January.

A 2.2-meter stone statue of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat that detected 109 explosive devices across Cambodian minefields during a five-year career, was unveiled in Siem Reap on April 3, on the eve of the International Day for Mine Awareness.

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong is encouraging Singapore residents to help ease the pressure of an ongoing energy crunch by opting for fans instead of air-conditioning and choosing public transport over personal vehicles.

According to the IQAir 2025 World Air Quality Report, this city has the lowest fine dust concentration level among all capital cities around the world.

Haruki Watanabe, a condensed matter theorist who shared a 2022 Breakthrough Prize for his work on exotic new phases of matter, has left the University of Tokyo for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

South Korea has revoked the visas of 112 Chinese students who allegedly used forged degree certificates from a defunct American college to transfer into a private university in Gwangju, exposing the country's struggle in recruiting foreign students to offset a collapsing domestic student pipeline.

Vietnam's main labor body is asking workers whether the country should rearrange its two April public holidays to create a longer continuous break, as employers and union branches push back against a calendar that splits the days off into awkward fragments.

After searching for emergency care for more than four hours in Daegu in South Korea, an American woman pregnant with twins at 28 weeks lost her first baby, while the second sustained brain damage.

Vietnamese prosecutors have charged 18 people with running a cannabis trafficking ring that rented upscale apartments in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as stash houses, moving more than 412 kg of the drug worth VND92.16 billion (US$3.5 million) in just over a year.

Vietnam's National Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday afternoon electing Le Minh Hung, head of the Party Central Committee's Organization Commission, as prime minister for the 2026-2031 term.