VinFast’s capitalization value has soared to $160 billion, surpassing a number of famous automobile manufacturers. This may have been a flash of lightning in the American financial sky, and could also be the beginning of a new myth.

Like VinFast, VNG, a unicorn technology firm, plans to list common shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market with the VNG trading code.

The stock market has witnessed many sessions where billions of shares have been being traded. More new records have been broken and new signs have emerged, raising a question if these are opportunities or risks for investors.

The Vietnamese bond market has been reactivated though it remains lackluster and individual investors’ confidence has declined after the shocks. However, the potential of the market is great, and even greater than the stock market.

The development of community-based tourism associated with traditional culture has improved the quality of life of the Chăm ethnic minority people in the southern province of An Giang.

The painter has had to put aside his paintbrush and take a new job – making toy animals from nipa leaves. He calls this his ‘journey back to childhood’.

Cu Da craft village produces special soy sauce that possesses a naturally sweet flavour, which necessitates a series of intricate and meticulous steps to achieve the final product.

For the past six years, Lydia Park has nurtured unique feelings toward her Vietnamese students in the Autumn Meeting cinema project, where she gives lectures on acting.

To reduce labour and enhance agricultural productivity, one farmer has devoted nearly two decades to tireless research and developing more than 50 types of automated agricultural machinery.

Local salt farmers have been building their own community-based tourism as an added value after years of successfully producing unique high-quality salt on the centuries-emerged field – part of the newly-recognised Sa Huỳnh National Special Heritage.

The ‘banana kingdom’ was once a "godforsaken" land.

Ignoring the risks, more unlicensed establishments have been opened and are still carrying out mass production of fake cosmetic surgery.

The stone musical instrument is one of the world’s oldest, and has recently been attracting the attention of local youngsters eager to play at provincial tourist destinations.

As of this year, the elderly population accounts for 11 per cent of the total population of HCM City, officially pushing the city into its ageing phase. The city’s birth rate has continuously declined over the past decade.

Even at the age of 70, an age when many former professional marathon runners have hung up their running shoes, Nguyen Do Hung remains a familiar face in running events across Vietnam.

The new visa policy which took effect on August 15 is expected to attract more tourists in the last two quarters of the year.

Vietnamese enterprises are issuing corporate bonds in the international market as they have found it difficult to mobilize capital domestically after a number of scandals. However, this has been the choice of only some large enterprises.

"Cơm 5,000 Hà Nội" group, a charity of young volunteers, is offering food to thousands of needy people every day at an almost free price.

For the past 28 years, Phan Thi Phuc has been joined by enthusiastic volunteer teachers to enrich the souls of hundreds of underprivileged children with art lessons.

Looking at mesmerising photos of landscapes and people in Hanoi by British photographer Marcus Lacey, people may think he has been living here for many years.