At 15 years old, Do Duy Vi left his hometown to make a living on the streets of Hanoi. Two decades later, he is now one of the Chief Executives of the foundation that rescued him. 

The young often start businesses with modern concepts revolving around IT, food or fashion, but three Mong men from the northern province of Lai Chau have created their own with a passion for the traditional musical instruments of their ethnic group.

Made in a traditional craft village, the sailboats that can travel against streams and the wind are legendary among river workers.

Truong The Dieu has gained praiseworthy achievements in recent years: he won a silver medal at WorldSkills 2019, got a Second-class Labor Medal, and became a Vietnamese Outstanding Young Face and Vietnam Vocational Skills Ambassador 2021.

Phan Ngoc Chau Anh, a student at Tran Dai Nghia High School in HCM City for the gifted, received the maximum score of nine for three subjects: English, Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Two male students in Quang Tri have invented a robot which takes samples for Covid-19 testing. The production cost was only VND20 million.

Of the 19 students winning medals at the 2021 international Olympiads, only two will study abroad. They mostly chose natural sciences for tertiary education – physics, chemistry, mathematics and information technology.

Spending 11 years researching herbs used for cancer drugs, a university lecturer, now 33, has decided to return to school to study for a master’s degree to reach her goal.

On the afternoon of February 14, in Hanoi, the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union announced 20 nominations for the online voting round of the Outstanding Vietnamese Young Citizen Award in 2021.

Before becoming a senior program manager at Amazon’s head office in Seattle, Thu Van had faced 1,000 job-application rejections.

Luu Nguyen Nguyet Minh is working on sustainable solutions to help solve Mekong Delta’s problems.

Having to get up before dawn to help his mother with housework and tutor his younger sister, the 12th grader at Hung Yen High School still spends 8-12 hours a day to learn his lessons.

"Why do plants use water, light and air to produce compounds that have the potential to treat complex diseases like cancer?" 

Tran Lam Nam Bao, born in 2004, who is a 12th grader at Nguyen Thi Minh Khai High School in HCM City, has posted his designs on his Facebook page and chat groups, attracting tens of thousands of likes, comments and shares.

After graduating from Wellesley College majoring in biochemistry, Trinh Mai Chi, with impressive research achievements, has won a full scholarship to study at Johns Hopkins, the world’s leading medical university.

A bamboo electric fan by young designer Nguyen Huynh Nam, from Dong Nai Province, recently won third prize at the Vietnam Design Week 2021. 

CEO Nguyen Thanh Trung said that he is not a dollar millionaire, explaining that the market capitalization of AXS tokens is different from the capitalization of Sky Mavis.

Bui Thị Thanh Linh decided to use up all the savings she got from four years of working to buy a land plot, which ultimately allowed her to borrow enough money to study abroad. But her path was not an easy one.

After graduating from HCM City University of Technology and obtaining a doctorate in South Korea and working in the US, Canada and Singapore for 12 years, Truong Van Tien, PhD, decided to return to Vietnam.

Because of his inability to speak English well, Hieu's statements were met with disapproval by his classmates when he first arrived in the United States. As a result, he has always pushed himself to outperform the locals.