This site was designed with the

website builder. Create your website today.Start Now

WRITER | EDITOR

Thu K. Dao's Archive

The 2020 high school examination: It never rains but it pours

Khoa-Thu

Jun 1, 2020
6 min

The 2020 high school examination: It never rains but it pours

Final-year students and their parents experienced three weeks of turbulence stirred up by constant changes of the national high school exam.

HIGHLIGHT

INSIGHTS

ABOUT ME

Khoa-Thu is currently an MA student in journalism at Studio 20 - New York University funded by the Fulbright Program. She worked as a Hanoi-based reporter for Tuoi tre – Vietnam's largest print newspaper, covering Vietnam's foreign affairs and international issues.

Read more

Limitations for limitless: Karolis and his five things

Sep 16, 2021
4 min

Limitations for limitless: Karolis and his five things

Karolis talks about limitations and breakthroughs via five objects closely attached to him, personally and professionally.

Common production hub may solve noodle-making village's waste problem

Aug 14, 2020
3 min

Common production hub may solve noodle-making village's waste problem

For more than 100 years, vermicelli-making workshops have been located in each family’s house.

Determination needed to end the scourge of mobile karaoke

Aug 14, 2020
3 min

Determination needed to end the scourge of mobile karaoke

Tensions over noisy speakers sometimes escalate into fighting and even murder.

Cleaners' lives turned upside down by COVID-19

Aug 14, 2020
4 min

Cleaners' lives turned upside down by COVID-19

Up to 77 per cent of Vietnamese enterprises estimated the effects of the COVID-19 on their business to be either serious or severe.

Disabled people struggle to access medical services due to COVID-19

Aug 14, 2020
4 min

Disabled people struggle to access medical services due to COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit Vietnam’s capital Hanoi in early March, Nguyen Thi Van locked herself up inside her home.

Tracing waste a new approach for communities

Aug 14, 2020
4 min

Tracing waste a new approach for communities

Once a bag of garbage is thrown away, what actually happens to it is a mystery to many.

Legal limbo pushes trans people to unsafe medical services

Jun 1, 2020
2 min

Legal limbo pushes trans people to unsafe medical services

Transgender people in Vietnam have struggled to access hormone treatment, psychological consulting and sex reassignment surgery.