The Government's new sanctions decree, effective 19 August 2026, sets concrete fines for cybersecurity and personal data violations — up to 3 billion đồng, 5% of annual revenue for illegal cross-border transfers, and 10× the proceeds of data trading.
Continue reading “Việt Nam Puts a Price on Privacy Violations: Nghị định 330/2026/NĐ-CP” →
Claude is more useful than most people realise — if you know where to run it and how to talk to it. A hands-on guide from daily use: apps, Claude Code, and the prompting habits that actually matter.
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Two implementing decrees under the new Luật An ninh mạng took effect on 19 August 2026 — bringing Vietnamese phone-number authentication for accounts, 24-hour takedown clocks, and 12-month log retention for platforms.
Continue reading “Việt Nam's New Cybersecurity Decrees: Nghị định 333 and 327 Take Effect” →
Why every official Vietnamese document looks the same — and what the rules behind the Quốc hiệu, the numbering, and the Times New Roman actually say.
Continue reading “Nghị định 30/2020/NĐ-CP: The Anatomy of a Vietnamese Administrative Document” →
A year of working with agentic coding tools: what they are actually good at, where they still fail, and the habits that make the difference.
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Why cramming vocabulary fails, what the forgetting curve actually looks like, and how to set up a spaced repetition habit that survives contact with real life.
Continue reading “Spaced Repetition: The Engine Behind Long-Term Vocabulary” →
The Vietnamese capital has carried more than a dozen names across a thousand years. Each one is a small history lesson in itself.
Continue reading “Thăng Long to Hà Nội: One City, Many Names” →
Bánh chưng, the Kitchen Gods, first-footing, and lucky money — a field guide to the traditions that make Vietnamese Lunar New Year what it is.
Limestone karsts, river caves, and the ruins of a 10th-century capital — two unhurried days in the landscape they call "Hạ Long Bay on land."
