In a feat many have called inconceivable, the Vietnamese U23 football team beat former champions Iraq to secure their place in the Asian Football Cup’s semi-final. In the celebrations that immediately followed the win, people and vehicles poured into downtown streets, wearing clothes of bright red and yellow, waving national flags, and singing and screaming at the top of their lungs, all in good fun.

The complicated traffic situations at BOT (build-operate-transfer) toll booths hit a ridiculous point recently when a bridal procession became trapped in a long line of vehicles waiting to pay the disputed toll. In fact, without a bit of quick thinking, their day of happiness was headed for the wall.

After a night of “spiritual debauchery,” HCM City resident named Huy drove home, very much under the influence.

Christmas is associated with eating and drinking to excess, and trips to the bathroom around this time of year can be dicey enough without adding queues for the loo into the equation.

Online shops on social networks can be a great way for small-scale traders to shift some clobber, but a public forum probably isn’t the best place to sell stolen goods.

Some say all original thought is simply undetected plagiarism, and most undergrad students know a thing or two about ripping off idea’s from others, but at least kids cover their tracks.

It has been well documented that the Hà Nội firefighting force has a really tough job on its hands when fires break out in lanes and alleys that their big trucks have no way of entering.

His deeds might not make it to the Guinness Book of World Records, but Đinh Phan Thìn belongs to the record books.

Visitors to Hà Nôi, particularly foreigners, are often wowed by cafes on train tracks on Điện Biên Phủ Street, about a kilometre from Hà Nội Railway Station.