Postgraduate alumnus in Asian Studies leaves a mark in the Top 18 outstanding young scientists nationwide in 2026
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City (USSH, VNU-HCM) has long affirmed its role as one of the country's leading training and research centers, pioneering the creation of a liberal, interdisciplinary academic environment that is closely connected to reality. Inheriting and promoting that educational philosophy, the Faculty of Oriental Studies continuously strives to create solid launchpads, helping learners transform fundamental knowledge into highly applicable research works, contributing effectively to the nation's innovation and development.
A vivid, brilliant, and proud testament to the university's postgraduate training quality in the 2025–2026 academic year is the outstanding achievement of Master Nguyen Minh Giang. As an alumnus of the 2023-2025 master's program in Asian Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Master Nguyen Minh Giang was officially named in the Top 18 outstanding young scientists nationwide to be shortlisted for the 2nd Khue Van Cac Award in 2026, organized by the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. This achievement is not only a bright milestone in the personal journey of a promising young researcher but also clearly reflects the sustainable academic ecosystem, advanced research orientation, and dedicated guidance of the Faculty of Oriental Studies' faculty.
The Khue Van Cac Award is one of the most noble and prestigious awards presided over by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, with the noble goal of discovering, honoring, and creating development motivation for young Vietnamese talents (aged 35 and under) who have achieved outstanding, breakthrough achievements in the fields of social sciences and humanities. First initiated in 2024, the award has quickly created a great resonance in the academic community, becoming a reputable launchpad gathering the most elite minds from research institutes, universities, and academies across the country as well as Vietnamese students and researchers working abroad.
In the first season, from dozens of valid applications, the Award Council only selected the Top 18 most outstanding individuals to enter the final round, and finally honored 9 scientists. Notably, the academic level of the candidates was very high, with the majority being PhDs and Masters who have undergone systematic training, possessing many international publications, monographs, and research projects with profound influence. To overcome a series of heavy-weight applications and put his name in the Top 18 of the 2nd Khue Van Cac Award in 2026 in the Interdisciplinary category of History - Archaeology - Ethnology/Anthropology, Master Nguyen Minh Giang had to prove undeniable superiority in both quantity and quality in his research works.
Master Nguyen Minh Giang's official inclusion in the Top 18 list for the 2nd Khue Van Cac Award in 2026 by the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is a significant event. For the individual researcher, this is a well-deserved sweet fruit after thousands of hours of diligent work in the library, data analysis, field research, and persistence on the arduous academic path. Through profound research works, ranging from Eastern political culture to foreign policy and security-defense cooperation of contemporary nations, Nguyen Minh Giang has clearly sketched the portrait of a talented young intellectual, possessing sharp interdisciplinary thinking and an open international integration vision.
The 2026 Khue Van Cac Award will not be the stopping point, but a great launchpad to take the name of Master Nguyen Minh Giang and the generation of young Vietnamese intellectuals further on the world science map. With talent, national pride, and a spirit of dedication to the community, the generation of young scientists from the Faculty of Oriental Studies will certainly continue to contribute research works with high practical value, contributing to protecting the ideological foundation, strengthening soft power, and accompanying the country on the path of modernization, integration, and sustainable development.
