Stories of people whose ideas and actions have shaped Vietnam.
Can instant noodles make you enough money to build your own Disneyland on a tropical island? Pham Nhat Vuong went from trading in Moscow and…
From perilous cave harvests to gift boxes worth millions of dong.
How a rainy-season village pastime reached the imperial court and won over audiences around the world.
A French education, a religion of his own and an island in the middle of the Mekong: the story of Nguyễn Thành Nam and the…
How Le Loi received a magic sword, why Hanoians called the lake’s giant inhabitant the Venerable Turtle, and what became of the last of her…
The story of Soviet oil workers, Vung Tau’s Russian neighborhood and the White Tiger field that transformed Vietnam’s economy.
He arrived from Europe with a microscope, identified the bacterium behind plague, and could have returned to Paris. Instead, he chose Nha Trang. Why do…
The world’s most popular mobile game was earning tens of thousands of dollars a day. Why did Nguyen Ha Dong remove Flappy Bird at its…
Not far from Ho Chi Minh City, an entire underground city lies hidden, complete with kitchens, hospitals, and secret passages. What role did the Cu…
Women in southern Vietnam arrived at government offices with their entire families and spent weeks demanding the withdrawal of troops. One of the movement’s organisers…
A women’s newspaper, underground organizations, negotiations in Paris and letters from France: the history remembered in Vietnam on October 20.
New families overseas and parents left in Vietnam. What was the price of being saved?
Concrete trees, family keepsakes and a building project that became a life’s work.