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Vietnam real estate market after 30 years of FDI

While some analysts think that attracting too much FDI into real estate is a problem, others believe that the real estate market has benefited from FDI flow because it helps create infrastructure for economic development.

SMEs pick up short end of supermarket stick

Small and medium sized firms are being crushed and elbowed out in the increasingly fierce competition to become a supermarket supplier.

A modest end to 2017 transactions sets up big for 2018

 This year’s merger-and-acquisition movement is coming to a somewhat quiet close in terms the fourth quarter of completions, but deals that have been stuck in due diligence or with approvals are finally moving forward.

Real estate association claims HCM City won’t face real estate bubble

The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (HoREA) predicted stable development for the city real estate sector and claimed that there would not be a real estate bubble in 2018.

VNA selects 10 outstanding economic events in 2017

Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected what it considers to be the 10 most outstanding economic events of Vietnam in 2017.

VN Index expected to surpass 1,300 points in 2018

Viet Nam’s benchmark stock index, VN-Index, could exceed 1,300 points in 2018 due to the positive outlook for the country’s economic growth and a strong inflow of foreign investment.

What’s behind the strong performance of the stock market in 2017?

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese stock market in 2017 saw stock prices escalating, but not all investors could make money.

Dong Lac Communal House - where time stands still in Hanoi

 Take a tour to Dong Lac Communal House at 38 Hang Dao Street, Hanoi, it's your chance to explore Hanoi craft culture and ancient architecture.

China funds coal away from home

China is boosting this type of funding, seemingly to pave the way for Chinese companies to secure contracts in Vietnam’s coal-fired power projects.

Chemist turns herbs into precious medicine

Ba Thị Cham, MA, a female scientist, has created 20 health care products, seven of which have been transferred to enterprises. All of them are synthesized from herbs.

Trio of manufacturers assist in ‘made-in-Vietnam auto dream’

Vietnam once put high hopes on automobile joint ventures, believing that foreign technologies would help develop the automobile industry. However, it now believes that it would be better not to rely on outsiders.

The man who can talk with birds

With a special talent of imitating songs of hundreds of bird species, Truong Cam, a forest ranger in Bach Ma National Park in Thua Thien – Hue province, is known as ‘the bird caller’.

Foreign firms stream to Vietnam

 HCMC received nearly 800 businesses from 15 nations and territories learning about local market and investment opportunities in December this year. 

Should children be sent to school before aged six?

VietNamNet Bridge - More and more parents, especially urbanites, want to send their children to school at the age of five instead of six as stipulated by the law.

In Hanoi, it's common culture to line up and squeeze for good food

 Getting in line and waiting to buy something is kind of trouble in some cities, but for Hanoian it`s kind of fun, a "quality-certificate" for age-old restaurants.

Continued flourish

Already strong, trade and investment between Vietnam and South Korea will only grow in the future.

Major cities welcome first tourists of 2018

Ho Chi Minh City greeted the first foreign visitors of 2018 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on January 1 morning.

Minister sets higher goal at 2018 Asian Games

The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien has set the goal to win at least three gold medals at the 18th Asian Games this year.

Vietnamese users lose $540 million from viruses: Bkav

Vietnam’s leading internet security firm, Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Centre (BKAV), announced that Vietnamese users lost some VND12.3 trillion (US$540 million) in 2017 due to viruses.

President: 2017 achievements – prerequisites for Vietnam’s sustainable development

What Vietnam has achieved in 2017 have created important prerequisites for the country to continue implementing successfully objectives and tasks set by the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.