Conversations on Vietnam Development
Rafi · Lives in IndonesiaUpdated 4y
I will mention 7 major ethnic groups which have the largest population in ASEAN (at least according to my knowledge). Which are:
1. Javanese, Mostly found in: Indonesia: Around 108 million people
Andrew Dang · HSE Officer (2012–present)5y
Nowadays, from the official viewpoint of the Cambodian government, the war in 1978–1979 have been widely regarded as the liberation war or a national uprising against the Maoist regime of Khmer Rouge, in which Vietnamese volunteer troops had played a great role to put the end to this genocidal regime.
The monument to Vietnamese volunteer soldiers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. There are numerous monuments were built in Cambodia to commemorate the sacrifices of Vietnamese troops during the war against the Pol Pot’s regime.
Tiếp tục đọc “How is the 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia regarded today? Are the Vietnamese seen as heroes?”
Take a look around you for a second. Your phone might have been put together in Vietnam. Those sneakers by the door could be Vietnamese too. Even the laptop you’re using right now, Vietnam may have had a hand in it somewhere along the line.
And yet most people barely think about Vietnam at all. Ask them to find it on a map, or to explain how their everyday costs have stayed surprisingly stable while the world’s supply chains have been a mess, and you’ll mostly get blank stares.
That’s the strange thing about Vietnam in 2026. It’s become quietly essential to how the modern economy runs, but it rarely gets treated like a main character. The spotlight stays on China, India, and the US, while Vietnam keeps doing the work in the background.
But what’s unfolding there right now is not background noise. It’s one of the most important economic shifts of our era, and it’s already changing the rules, from geopolitics to what you end up paying for electronics.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam: The Invisible Architect of Your Daily Life”
Well I don’t know why Vietnam is always blamed for treating the Hoa badly
Vietnamese translate [ transliterate] all Chinese names and call them by the Vietnamese [transliterated] version .
We even translate Singaporean names
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[The popular Chinese (Hoa) last names in Vietnam are transliterated into Vietnamese sounds and their English versions are:
Lâm (Lim), Vương (Wong/Wang), Ngô (Ng/Goh), Hứa (Koh/Hsu), Trần (Tran/Chan), Lê (Le/Lee), Lý (Li/Lee), Tôn (Sun), Chu (Chou/Zhou), Tạ (Chia/Tse), Mã (Ma), Trương (Zhang/Cheung), La (Luo/Law), Lương (Liang/Leung), Lưu (Liu/Low)]
Để hiện thực hóa khát vọng hùng cường, từ cuối năm 2024 đến nay, Bộ Chính trị đã ban hành 9 nghị quyết chiến lược trên nhiều lĩnh vực then chốt, thể hiện tư duy đổi mới, tầm nhìn dài hạn và quyết tâm chính trị cao, tạo nền tảng đưa đất nước phát triển giàu mạnh, thịnh vượng trong kỷ nguyên mới.
Thứ Ba, ngày 27/01/2026 – 13:30
Dưới đây là 9 quyết sách lịch sử này, qua đó thấy rõ lộ trình phát triển của đất nước trong tương lai gần:
Vũ Song Vũ · Lives in Ho Chi Minh City7yr
Unlike other Asian nations, Vietnam doesn’t have many large or massive temples and pagodas. As Tim Tran and others have already stated, Vietnamese culture is heavily influenced by Confucianism. However, it’s wrong to say that Vietnam has NO HISTORICAL SITES IN THE FORM OF TEMPLE. Just because we didn’t build it big doesn’t mean we own none. Vietnamese believe in the harmony of nature so every shrine, temple and pagoda is always built within nature like on mountain, by the river/stream, etc. Furthermore, most of Vietnamese religious building (except for Christianity) tend to bend Buddhism, Taoism and indigenous religions together so they are considered highly sacred, seeking spirituality rather than emphasising on the architecture and size. Most of Vietnamese temples are small YET SUBTLE in terms of the decorating. Below are some of my favourite temples and pagodas.
Chùa Hương (Perfume Pagoda)
To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes the good life. He has promised to make Communist Vietnam rich and influential.
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By Damien Cave and Tung Ngo
Damien Cave and Tung Ngo conducted dozens of interviews over 18 months for this article.
To Lam was already Vietnam’s top leader when last month’s Communist Party congress began. But as it ended on Jan. 23 with him amassing more power, he seemed quicker to smile, to shake hands with comrades in Hanoi’s red-draped convention hall, and in a rush to do more.
At a news conference after the new Politburo list confirmed that he would serve dual roles as head of party and president — a break from Vietnam’s power-sharing norm — he was the first of several officials to enter the room and the first to sit down. His dark wood chair in the center was much larger than the others.
“This congress convenes in a new context, requiring a new vision,” he told a group of mostly state-employed reporters. “This time,” he added, “what’s more important is action.” Tiếp tục đọc “Global profile: Vietnam’s Leader Has New Power, and He’s in a Hurry”
Masa · Updated 11mo
Vietnam has one of the best school education systems in the world. The country’s children perform well in international tests of reading, math and science skills. At the “64th International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO2023)”, out of the six high school students who participated on behalf of Vietnam, all participants won medals, with two gold medals, two silver medals, and two bronze medals.
According to the World Bank, Vietnamese students outperform not only their fellow Southeast Asian countries Malaysia and Thailand, but also students from developed countries such as the United Kingdom and Canada, which are more than six times as wealthy as their home country. What is also noteworthy is that there are no gender or regional differences in student performance in Vietnam.
Tiếp tục đọc “Between Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, which country will become a developed country the soonest?”(https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/)
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Huijian Wu · CTO (2005–present) Updated 4
Which is safer, Vietnam or Thailand?
If you look at risks such as violence, Vietnam is much safer than Thailand.
For example, the crime rate for murder is half that of Thailand in Vietnam.
Bangkok is the centre of human trafficking in Asia.
Tiếp tục đọc “Which is safer, Vietnam or Thailand?”| QUỐC HỘI ——- | CỘNG HÒA XÃ HỘI CHỦ NGHĨA VIỆT NAM Độc lập – Tự do – Hạnh phúc ————— |
| Nghị quyết số: 253/2025/QH15 | Hà Nội, ngày 11 tháng 12 năm 2025 |
VỀ CÁC CƠ CHẾ, CHÍNH SÁCH PHÁT TRIỂN NĂNG LƯỢNG QUỐC GIA GIAI ĐOẠN 2026 – 2030
QUỐC HỘI
Căn cứ Hiến pháp nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam đã được sửa đổi, bổ sung một số điều theo Nghị quyết số 203/2025/QH15;
Căn cứ Luật Ban hành văn bản quy phạm pháp luật số 64/2025/QH15 đã được sửa đổi, bổ sung một số điều theo Luật số 87/2025/QH15;
QUYẾT NGHỊ:
1. Nghị quyết này quy định các cơ chế, chính sách để phát triển năng lượng quốc gia giai đoạn 2026 – 2030 bao gồm: điều chỉnh cập nhật quy hoạch phát triển điện lực, phương án phát triển mạng lưới cấp điện trong quy hoạch tỉnh; đầu tư xây dựng dự án điện lực; phát triển điện gió ngoài khơi; mua bán điện trực tiếp; đầu tư xây dựng dự án, công trình dầu khí, than.
2. Nghị quyết này không áp dụng đối với các dự án thuộc chức năng, nhiệm vụ của Ban chỉ đạo được thành lập theo Quyết định số 751/QĐ-TTg ngày 11 tháng 4 năm 2025 của Thủ tướng Chính phủ.
Tiếp tục đọc “Nghị quyết số: 253/2025/QH15 VỀ CÁC CƠ CHẾ, CHÍNH SÁCH PHÁT TRIỂN NĂNG LƯỢNG QUỐC GIA GIAI ĐOẠN 2026 – 2030”
Mo Chen · Lives in China (1989–present) 7y
Would China protect Vietnam if it is being attacked by another country?
Are you serious!
Whoever would start a war in Southeast Asia has got to be the single most delusional person in this universe!
Look. Around.
It’s a pile of black powder barrel in here!
What? You think all you hear in the news is Vietnam being pushed around by China, that Vietnam is weak?
Tiếp tục đọc “Would China protect Vietnam if it is being attacked by another country?”
It seems that Many of the Chinese consider Nanyue Kingdom of Trieu Day/Zhou Tao as the Vietnamese state. It means that the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces today should be historical territories of Vietnam?
Ang Chi Siang Lived in Vietnam, Wife is Vietnames 9y
Where did Vietnamese originate from?
This is not going to make a lot of my Vietnamese friends happy here, I’m afraid.
I suggest all Vietnamese readers read it with an open mind.
Most people are only willing to consider the history of Vietnam up to the Nam Viet Kingdom era which was established in 204 BC.
Tiếp tục đọc “Where did Vietnamese originate from?”Ngo The Hoan · Software Engineer with an interest in history
Why is the Philippines still richer and look a lot more modern than Vietnam?
Because many Filipinos love to dig out photos of Vietnam like this:
They then proceed to compare it with photos of their cities like this:
Then conclude that their country looks richer and more developed. But the reality is much more complicated.
You see, each tiny white blob you see in the Vietnam photo is a private property. Something that looks like this on land:
They are called tube houses, a characteristic feature of Vietnamese cities. Tube houses came about due to people’s desire to make use of their small land. The more money you have, the more you build up.
Tiếp tục đọc “Why is the Philippines still richer and look a lot more modern than Vietnam?”I am a Vietnamese guy who casually eats dog meat. Normally, I eat dog meat with my friend in a party, simply because dog meat is tasty (there’s no religious or monetary issue here). I think it is hypocritical to ask us to stop eating dog meat, simply because dogs are considered a “friend” in some areas of the world. Besides, there are a lot of other practices that should receive the same attention outside of the eating of dog meat, such as:
CVD 