Geneva, Feb. 11 -- Working at one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research, a Vietnamese female scientist is positive about changes at home, particularly when seeing young people value Vietnam's vast traditional culture.

Pham Le Thu Ha, or Joni Pham, is a PhD student from the University of Melbourne and a physicist at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is home to the world's largest particle accelerator. It is renowned for its groundbreaking scientific discoveries and its goal of unraveling the mysteries of the universe such as dark matter and dark energy, while affirming the role of science in promoting peace in a world filled with turmoil.

Speaking to the...