Yesterday was Vietnamese Teacher’s Day. Traditionally Vietnamese students give their teachers presents to mark the occasion.

It is said that children are a gift from God. But giving birth to a baby and providing proper care for him or her is another matter.

Twelve-year-old Lê Hữu Tuấn Anh, of Yên Hùng commune in the northern province of Thanh Hóa’s Yên Định District, may be the luckiest person on earth.

Gyrating and jumping with gay abandon to blaring music can be an annoyance, but that’s not out of step with the times – it’s what young people generally do, and there’s no point getting flustered about it, one would say.

When a doctor prescribes something other than medicine, it can be a bitter pill to swallow for some people.

Whether it is Mission Impossible or The Italian Job, the gadgetry deployed by brilliant thieves in Hollywood blockbusters has had us in thrall. The story of Mai Xuân Hải is no blockbuster, but he was good bloke at busting into apartments and robbing them.