Le Hung Nguyen and Jenny Huynh were 'named' by Forbes for their impressive achievements.

Forbes Asia has announced its 2025 "30 Under 30 Asia" list - a ranking honoring 300 individuals under 30 years old from across the continent, with outstanding achievements in various fields. There are 2 Vietnamese people on the list in two different categories.

Jenny Huynh became the youngest Vietnamese person ever to be honored in this ranking at the ag.e of 19. Her creative style is considered to vividly reflect the life of a Gen Z studying abroad.

Besides the media field, this year's Social Impact category also has the participation of a Vietnamese - Le Hung Nguyen, 27 years old, founder of PISE (Projects Incubation for Social Entrepreneurs), operating in Ho Chi Minh City since 2018.

PISE aims to support young people in small towns in Vietnam in developing and implementing social projects that address local issues. The organization provides mentoring, training and summer camps to help students turn their ideas into reality. To date, more than 50 projects have been supported through PISE, positively impacting over 2,500 people.

Some of the organization's notable initiatives include DAM - a project to raise awareness of school violenc.e through social media, and Plastico - a program to educate students about reducing plastic use in their daily lives.

Forbes has rated him as one of the individuals with profound and practical influence in promoting sustainable social change in Vietnam. Unlike Jenny Huynh’s prominent presence on the internet, Le Hung Nguyen’s journey is marked by persistent efforts in community work.

Before Hung, Tran Tuan Minh - founder of UpYouth - was also in the same category of last year's list (alongside prominent Vietnamese representatives such as designer Phan Dang Hoang, YouTuber Dong Van Hung or mathematics researcher Pham Tuan Huy.)

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia is an annual list published by Forbes Asia magazine, honoring individuals under 30 years old with outstanding achievements in many fields. The list is divided into 10 categories, including arts, finance, technology, science, media, social impact... with each category consisting of 30 people. The selected individuals not only have achievements early in their careers but also demonstrate the potential to have a wide impact in the future.

In 2024, the name Le Hung Viet Bao, born in 1986, is also a Vietnamese person on the Forbes list of honors. His father is a Professor and Doctor of Mathematics, his mother used to work at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and his brother is also a Doctor of Mathematics. He showed his passion and outstanding ability in Mathematics since primary school in Germany, won many excellent Math awards during secondary school and passed the specialized Math class of the High School for the Gifted in Natural Sciences, Hanoi National University.

In addition to studying in class, Le Hung Viet Bao searches for documents online, passionately finding quick and concise solutions to math problems. His father also collects domestic and foreign math books so that his son can learn more types of math. According to friends and teachers, Le Hung Viet Bao's strength is number theory and always discovering new ways to solve problems. Although he has an outstanding talent in math, he still studies well in all subjects, is a comprehensive gifted student with a total score of over 9.0.

In grade 11, Le Hung Viet Bao won third prize in the National Mathematical Olympiad and was selected for the IMO team. That year, he became one of three excellent candidates to win a gold medal with a perfect score of 42/42 points in Japan, according to Tien Phong. His impressive achievements in the international arena put him on the list of 10 outstanding young Vietnamese faces in 2003.

In 2004, with the first prize in the National Mathematics Olympiad, Le Hung Viet Bao continued to be selected to compete internationally and achieved a "double" with the IMO gold medal in Greece. That was the year the Vietnamese delegation received a "rain of medals" with 4 gold medals and 2 silver medals, ranking 4th out of 82 participating countries. However, Le Hung Viet Bao was somewhat regretful that he could not achieve the absolute high score as the first time he competed in the IMO.

Le Hung Viet Bao was admitted directly to the talented Bachelor of Mathematics class of the University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, then continued to study and graduate in Mathematics at the prestigious University of Cambridge (UK). For three consecutive years, Le Hung Viet Bao won the title of excellent student in Mathematics.

He completed his PhD program at Harvard University and received his degree in March 2014 with his thesis "Modularity of some elliptic curves over totally real fields" under the guidance of famous professor and mathematician Richard Taylor.

Le Hung Viet Bao then became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago (USA) specializing in arithmetic, one of the oldest fields of mathematics. He believes that his field will be very useful in developing security technology. The young doctor was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2016 in the field of Health and Science.

He was invited to work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for nearly a year. Le Hung Viet Bao is currently an Associate Professor at Northwestern University, USA. In July 2024, Le Hung Viet Bao and a number of Vietnamese mathematicians returned to Vietnam to attend the VIASM-ICTP Summer School on Galois Representations and Reciprocity Laws co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) and the Clay Math Institute.

The event was attended by more than 80 scientists and students in the fields of Analysis, Geometry, Topology, from domestic and foreign schools and institutes, including 40 foreign students from many countries around the world.

It can be said that the faces appearing on the prestigious Forbes magazine are a successful start. Thai singer and rapper Lalisa Manobal, also known by her stage name Lisa of the Korean K-pop gir.l group Blackpink, also made it to this impressive list in the field of art.

The idol has carved out her own path. Her latest turn was in the third season of HBO's hit series The White Lotus, where she played Mook, a worker at a resort in Koh Samui. In April, she appeared at the Coachella music festival to perform songs from her debut studio album Alter Ego, released in February.

The album's lead single "Rockstar," which she first released last year, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Global Top Songs chart outside the United States. A solo deal with Sony Music Entertainment's RCA Records and the launch of her own management label, Lloud, followed. In 2023, her track "Mone.y" set a Guinness World Record as the first song by a K-pop solo artist to reach one billion streams on Spotify. —Catherine Wang.

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