Eight-year-old Phung Xuan Vu and his 10-year-old brother were responsible for fetching food for their family, which was in the constant grip of hunger. They were living in Vietnam in the 1980, so this ...

Tran Thi Hoa, her face gaunt and haggard, her eyes glazed, lies permanently on her bed breathing heavily. She is a bag of bones, only stirring to take her medicine and eat. This woman in her late 40s ...

You would be forgiven for thinking—and it would be all too understandable after the war—that the people of Vietnam are anti-American. Quite the contrary: the Vietnamese people admire economic success ...

A new World Bank Poverty and Equity report, From the Last Mile to the Next Mile, assesses Vietnam’s progress in poverty reduction over the decade to 2020 and examines what is needed to sustain the ...

A 36-year-old American Air Force veteran from Maryland has found peace and purpose far from home in Vietnam. Markeiz Ryan’s life took a dramatic turn after the 2008 financial crisis, which cost his ...