Skyrocketing rent, tuition hikes, and mounting living costs are forcing Vietnamese students in Australia to relocate to distant suburbs, juggle multiple part-time jobs, and scour for supermarket discounts just to survive.

ECCO Vietnam halted production at its factory in Bau Bang Commune of Ho Chi Minh City on Monday afternoon to begin dissolution procedures.

Tarps and metal roofing are encroaching on the yin-yang tiled roofs and open-air lightwells of Hoi An's old houses, spoiling the heritage landscape of the UNESCO-listed town in central Vietnam.

Vietnam's average temperature in October was 26.3 degrees Celsius, 1.74 degrees above the long-term average and the highest since records came to be maintained in 1961.

Thousands of young people worldwide have shared what makes a city appealing, revealing the best places for them to live.