More than 50 U.S. diplomats, along with their families and friends, packed a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City's Thao Dien neighborhood on June 13 to watch the U.S. men's national team open their home World Cup with a commanding 4-1 win over Paraguay.

Law professors overwhelmingly preferred answers drafted by AI over ones written by fellow professors, a Stanford Law School study found, suggesting that the technology is ​capable of legal reasoning and that law students may benefit from AI ‌tutoring.

The new campus of Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted spans more than 14,000 sq.m and features facilities such as pickleball and football courts, as well as a smart library, marking a sharp contrast with the French colonial architecture of its historic former campus.

Public faith in a university degree has hit a record low in England, months after a similar slump in the U.S., as graduates in two of the world's top study destinations face a weak job market and rising debt.

Construction and demolition waste in Hanoi that can be recycled into roadbed fill, concrete, and bricks are being dumped in landfills or illegally disposed of, causing severe pollution.

Nine people are facing charges for allegedly being involved in a counterfeiting ring that manufactured and sold fake jewelry, generating approximately VND30 billion (US$1.15 million) in illegal profits over several years.

A wave of road and drainage works across Hanoi has become a major source of airborne dust, fouling the air and upending daily life for residents living nearby.

Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, the king's eldest daughter, has died aged 47, the royal palace announced Friday, more than three years after she was hospitalized following a sudden illness.

A 16-year-old student in Nghe An Province exploited a security flaw in Vietnam's national vaccination database, stealing and reselling roughly 20 million personal records for a profit of over VND100 million (US$3,800).

Heavy rain stopped planes from landing at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat airport on the evening of June 11, diverting inbound flights to Phu Quoc and Can Tho.

Hungary's recent restrictions on foreign labor recruitment have been widely portrayed as a complete ban on guest workers, but the reality is more nuanced.

Long Thanh airport, the VND336.63 trillion (US$12.8 billion) project set to become Vietnam's largest, has switched on its main power supply, clearing one of the last big infrastructure hurdles before a planned commercial launch at the end of 2026.

A 175-kilometer railway worth more than VND171 trillion (US$6.5 billion) has been proposed between Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho, giving Vietnam's Mekong Delta its first rail link in nearly seven decades.

Nearly three months after the launch of the 500-day campaign to intensify the search, recovery and identification of fallen soldiers' remains, Vietnamese authorities have recovered 1,109 sets of martyrs' remains.

The opening session of the ASEAN Future Forum 2026 took place on June 9 in Hanoi, featuring a keynote address by Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, alongside remarks from leaders of ASEAN member states, senior United Nations officials and recorded messages from foreign ministers.

Gale-force winds and rough seas battered New Zealand's capital of Wellington on Tuesday, forcing ferry and flight cancellations and road closures as authorities urged ​hundreds of residents along the city's south coast to evacuate.

Two American men have been ordered to pay fines of 300,000 yen (US$2,000) each after entering a restricted monkey enclosure at a zoo in Japan's Chiba Prefecture.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Gen. Phan Van Giang met with Lieut. Gen. Adul Boonthumjaroen, Thai Minister of Defense in Hanoi on June 8, as the latter accompanied Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul on an official visit and attendance at the third ASEAN Future Forum.

Academic programs offered through the University of London have been available in Vietnam for more than 15 years, providing local students with access to internationally recognized degrees and academic standards.

After decades in which prime downtown land went to high-rises and housing, Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City is changing course, setting aside some of its most valuable plots for parks and public space.

A dramatic spike in failing grades among computer science students at the University of California, Berkeley has alarmed faculty, who are pointing to an overreliance on artificial intelligence tools and a stark decline in foundational math skills as the primary culprits.

Thailand is mourning Princess Bajrakitiygabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who died at the age of 47 following more than three years of intensive medical care on Thursday.

Khanh Hoa Province has asked the government to approve a VND25.05 trillion (US$952 million) expressway linking the resort cities of Nha Trang and Da Lat, to be built under a public-private partnership.

Japan's education ministry plans to launch a pilot program in fiscal 2027 to provide basic Japanese-language instruction to children of foreign nationals, as a growing number of students require support to navigate school life and classroom learning.

A Malaysian tour group sparked a backlash in China this week after having some 1,200 Taobao parcels sent to their hotel in Xi'an, leaving staff to sort them by hand.

Authorities in northern Vietnam have uncovered an alleged plot by a group of foreigners to establish a large-scale online scam center in the country, arresting key suspects before the operation became active.

Police in the Chinese megacity of Chongqing have detained a man accused of posing as a kind-hearted pet adopter to acquire dogs and cats he then tortured, some of it filmed to sell online.

A Thai woman appeared in a Myanmar court on Thursday to answer charges of murder in the killing of an American diplomat in Yangon, according to two attorneys familiar with the case.

A former Air Canada pilot has been charged after flying for years without a proper license, Canadian police said Tuesday.

Around 5,000 children have received enhanced financial support during the first year of a government initiative designed to encourage Singaporeans to have three or more children.

Vietnam's national high school literature exam invoked Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk on June 11, asking more than 1.2 million students how the country might produce innovators of its own.

Vietnam's Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed giving the prime minister the authority to determine the exact dates for all public holidays each year.

More than 400 people have been arrested in a major drug trafficking investigation spanning 11 provinces and cities, marking the largest number of arrests ever made in a single narcotics case in Vietnam.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was set to face questioning Wednesday from U.S. lawmakers over his relationship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whose network of wealthy and powerful associates has fueled years of scrutiny and conspiracy theories.

Li Jia, 33, taught herself through China's national graduate entrance exam between cleaning shifts and won a place in the master's program at Chengdu University of Technology, the campus she has swept since 2021.

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake crushed part of a commercial complex housing a Jollibee restaurant in General Santos City on Monday, as the death toll across the southern Philippines reached at least 35.

The ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) 2026 officially opened in Hanoi on June 9 under the theme “Shaping Our Future Together: Peace, Prosperity and People-Centered.”

The ASEAN Future Forum (AFF) demonstrates Vietnam's growing role and standing in promoting a more synergized and proactively connected ASEAN, said Professor Vu Minh Khuong of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Vietnamese and Cambodian prime ministers agreed to deepen political, economic and security ties, advancing practical cooperation and regional connectivity during their talks in Hanoi on June 8.

Around 5,000 students and teachers in remote areas of Son La Province are expected to benefit from improved sanitation facilities under a school hygiene project launched by Hope Foundation and Opella Vietnam.

A Vietnamese woman who underwent seven surgeries from infancy, ultimately losing complete sight in her right eye, has been admitted to a series of the world's most prestigious postgraduate programs.

Thailand is mourning Princess Bajrakitiygabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who died at the age of 47 following more than three years of intensive medical care on Thursday.

Public faith in a university degree has hit a record low in England, months after a similar slump in the U.S., as graduates in two of the world's top study destinations face a weak job market and rising debt.

Construction and demolition waste in Hanoi that can be recycled into roadbed fill, concrete, and bricks are being dumped in landfills or illegally disposed of, causing severe pollution.

Japan's fertility rate has tumbled to its lowest level since 1899, reaching a point the government did not expect for another 15 years, as the punishing cost of living convinces more young people they cannot afford to raise a family.

Singapore's Changi Airport, named the World's Best Airport for 2026 by the Skytrax World Airport Awards, will screen all 104 World Cup matches for free through the July 19 final, the Changi Airport Group said on June 11.

Many people have demolished a portion of their houses on Do Xuan Hop Street and handed over land for widening it to six lanes, helping eliminate a bottleneck close to the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway.

Australia and the United States are the only non-European countries to secure spots in the world's top 10 destinations for immigrants in 2026, according to the latest Immigration Index released by remittance company Remitly.

The opening of a new bridge connecting Canada and the United States that President Donald Trump previously criticized has been delayed at the last minute over "unresolved issues," officials said Thursday.

Around 5,000 children have received enhanced financial support during the first year of a government initiative designed to encourage Singaporeans to have three or more children.

Indonesia first giant panda cub Satrio Wiratama, nicknamed 'Rio' was seen playing around in his enclosure in West Java's Cisarua on Tuesday, after his public debut.

Neil Muller, the newly appointed chief executive of British technology company Node4, was found stabbed to death at his home in central England just seven weeks into the job.

Police in Vietnam's southern Dong Nai City have begun probes into two warehouse owners for allegedly infringing industrial property rights after seizing more than 1,400 counterfeit products bearing luxury brands including Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Dior.

Singapore Airlines and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines have opened an interline partnership, letting travelers from Vietnam and across Asia book a single ticket from Changi Airport to nearly 120 U.S. cities.

Missing out on a spot at the prestigious Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted could have derailed his academic dreams, yet a Hanoi student pivoted it to an international curriculum, conquered 10 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and secured his place at Cornell University.

Vietnamese police have opened a criminal case against an Australian businessman over a rampage that wrecked a cafe in Da Nang and was caught on security cameras shared around the world.

An Auburn University student who walked away from his family to explore Kyoto alone has been found dead in the mountains outside the Japanese city.

A Ho Chi Minh City park likely conceals a mass grave of about 900 soldiers killed in the 1968 Tet Offensive, officials concluded on June 8 after an eight-year forensic search.

Vietnamese Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan and Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Santiphab Phomvihane exchanged a cooperation agreement between their respective ministries for the 2026-2030 period under the witness of the countries' Prime Ministers.

The Japanese city of Utsunomiya has suspended all 94 of the primary and middle schools that it operates on Monday after its first-ever bear sighting, a municipal official said.