Fake talent scouts have milked unwitting parents out of hundreds of millions of dong (VND100 million = $4,266) via social media child modeling cons.

I am a woman with a son and a daughter. Both are married and have children. My son's family is living in our house.

Hong Anh was angry when she discovered her husband had been giving his younger sister in university VND5 million ($214.18) a month.

Despite his car and well-to-do looks, he grew up on these streets, doing what he had to do to survive.

Tôn Nữ Ánh Tuyết, 72, spends what little profit she makes from selling incense, hats and souvenirs to help cancer patients in Huế City.

Nguyen Thi Ly, 70, who had moved to Hanoi for nearly a year to care for her two grandchildren, was hospitalized twice due to fatigue and exhaustion.

Nguyen Tuan, 15, had sex for the first time earlier this year, did not use a condom and his girlfriend had to take a morning-after pill.

Friendly, hospitable people are supposed to be an attractive feature of Vietnamese people. No questioning that, but I do question the civic sense of some of my brethren.

Even by Trần Đặng Đăng Khoa's standards, the first Vietnamese person to ride around the world on a motorbike, the trip he took in mid-May was special.

Many farmers in Bình Chánh District of HCM City have switched to raising ornamental Japanese koi fish in saline water in recent years.