Vietnam rules in place to prevent tobacco harm, but without visible enforcement, it's almost meaningless, according to readers.

Since March my friend in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been working four days a week and having an extra free day for himself and his family.

When I asked my teachers why English has the verb "to be" or why subjects and verbs must agree, I was often dismissed. "That's English," they'd say, or worse, "That's a silly question."

The primary reason behind traffic congestion in cities is not cars or motorbikes but rather inadequate infrastructure and poor traffic organization.

In recent years durian has brought prosperity to many Vietnamese farming communities. But will that last?

On my first day at a Vietnamese company in Vietnam, the director asked me, “Do you have an English name?”

There have been numerous articles on VnExpress about working overseas, and it is hard to say if it is the right choice for everyone, because it is a personal decision dependent on individual circumstances.

For many families, learning English is no longer just about communication or work, it's become a race for high scores and native-like accents. But is early IELTS certification really the right approach?

Many years ago I was surprised when my writing score in an IELTS exam was lower than my younger sister's.

"Sending VND100 million (US$4,000) home every month after deducting taxes and expenses..." is one advertisement promoting vocational study abroad programs that made me laugh.

I have not taught English for a long time. But a few weeks ago, two older students came to me, begging to learn English for travel.

Countless "extra costs" behind tuition fees that come with sending a child to an international school are making my friend anxious—and even considering pulling his child out to return to public school.

Many of my students express confusion and anxiety about the necessity of university degrees in the age of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI).

After years of working, hiring, being hired and watching people getting passed over despite impressive résumés, this is how I would navigate university today.

When I transferred my child to a public school near our home, I knew the school didn't have strong foreign language resources. However, I decided to apply the Australian English learning approach that I had experienced firsthand.

Hundreds of people crowded around to board the Binh Chuan, a ship designed, built and operated by Vietnamese, when it was launched in 1919 from a Hai Phong port.

Recently, I had to deal with a flat tire on my electric motorbike, and what I thought would be a simple fix turned into a frustrating ordeal, as most shops were reluctant to deal with an unfamiliar product.

After a driver in Ho Chi Minh City shared his ordeal of making multiple trips over 800 km to pay a traffic fine, other VnExpress readers shared simpler procedures overseas and elsewhere in Vietnam.

I had to make four round trips from my home in Ho Chi Minh City just to pay fines for running red lights.