Property market sees increase of buyers in 2017

More than 200 inland ports in HCMC will be shut down this year due to the expiration of their operating licenses, which will adversely affect inland waterway transport, according to the municipal Transport Department. 

 The number of apartments sold in HCMC reached roughly 41,000 units last year, almost double that of Hanoi City at 21,000 units, according to the Vietnam Association of Realtors.

The bar is high, but fruit and vegetable exports are an area of particular potential for Vietnam.

 Not much attention is paid to investments from Sweden despite many of its enterprises having a long-term presence in Vietnam and many others planning to come.

HCM City-based poet Nguyen Phong Viet has become a publishing phenomenon after selling a total of 120,000 copies of poetry collections. Now he has released 5,000 copies of a new collection titled Sao Phai Dau Den Nhu Vay

 Despite historical ups and downs throughout the village’s 500-year history, Ma Chau villagers in Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province, have exerted every effort to keep their traditional silk weaving art alive.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The climate in the valley of Muong Phang in the mountainous Dien Bien Province is no longer as it was over previous centuries. But the change has brought some benefits to local farmers.

Hanoi seems to be warmer with beautiful peach blossoms and kumquat trees.

After a hard day’s work, labourers in the lead recycling industrial area of Chi Dao Commune in northern Hung Yen Province are required to leave their contaminated clothes at work, bathe and then change into clean clothes

 Stakeholders are waiting patiently for Vietnam’s stock market to receive a much sought-after upgrade from MSCI.

With the VN Index increasing sharply by 48 percent in 2017, stocks were the assets with the highest profitability. No other assets, except bitcoin, brought such impressive profits.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen A is bewitched by the hau dong ritual, where a medium goes into a trance and incarnates as various deities.

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 Kyle Julius, head coach of Saigon Heat, is considered one of the most well-known names that Canadian basketball has ever had.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At half-past 10 in the morning, the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB pump) started running, making a steady sound.

 Four of 12 State-owned loss-making projects could be revitalized after Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue approved a restructuring plan for the Vietnam National Chemical Group (Vinachem) in the 2017-2020 period.

 Real estate stocks are expected to return to the spotlight in 2018, as the sector recovers from its chronic issues and firms gear up for major merger and acquisition deals.

 Young women treated for breast cancer have the same survival rates regardless of whether they have the BRCA gene mutation, 

 Lying at the foot of Chanh Hung Bridge in District 8, HCMC, An Phu Pagoda with a history of more than 170 years is frequented by foreign tourists who want to explore its ancient and unique architecture.

 In addition to VND200 billion needed to upgrade 22 stadiums, HCMC will invest over VND15 trillion (US$660 million) in Rach Chiec sports complex and Phan Dinh Phung sports center to host the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games 31) in 2021.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese enterprises made hefty investments in automobile manufacturing projects in 2017, with the aim of becoming an automobile production center in SE Asia.

The opening of the first IQ8 gasoline station in Hanoi marks a new stage for Vietnam’s retail gasoline sector.

 One young Vietnamese engineer aims to build the first Vietnamese-made robot and already provides robotics to the local manufacturing sector.

Vietnamese designer Dang Thi Bich Ngoc has won the 2017 Graphic Design Awards of the USA for the first time with a set of four posters featuring characters from an ancient Tuong (classical drama) play entitled ‘San Hau’.