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FED raise puts pressure on exchange rate

Exchange rates were forecast to rise slightly in the coming years as the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) fixed interest rates for mobilised deposits at 0 per cent, following the FED’s plan to raise the USD interest rate three times in 2018.

Khanh Hoa bronze casting village busy ahead of Tet

 Phuc Loc Tay 1 bronze casting village in the central province of Khanh Hoa is very busy as the Tet holiday nears.

Project helps build flood resistant homes for the needy

 Anyone who meets Pham Thi Huong Giang, initiator and key operator of the Flood Resistant Houses, always wonders how this woman has so much energy to handle her heavy workload.

Vietnam's export and import turnover punched through $400-billion milestone

 Vietnam's total export-import turnover since the beginning of the year has reached $400 billion, recording the highest trade surplus ever, with $3.17 billion.

VN to make splash at Asian U23 tournament

Vietnam’s national head coach Park Hang-seo confirmed that his team would try to pull off a miracle at the upcoming Asian Football Confederation U23 Football Championship in China.

HCMC plans additional testing for TB

HCM City has targeted testing at least 17,045 additional people with tuberculosis (TB), including 7,840 new patients with pulmonary TB, next year, according to the city’s TB Prevention and Control Programme.

Top ten cultural and tourism events of 2017

Here are the 10 most outstanding cultural and tourism events of 2017.

Top 10 ICT events in 2017

The Viet Nam ICT Press Club announced the top 10 ICT events in 2017 on Thursday. This is the result voted for by more than 50 journalists in the information technology sector, from some 40 media agencies nationwide.

Intense competition awaits in 2018: real-estate experts

Next year is likely to be a fiercely competitive one for real-estate companies in HCM City since scores of new projects are set to hit the market, analysts said.

Vietnam and Russian collaboration in automobile manufacturing

Russian automobile manufacturers (KAMAZ, GAZ, and UAZ, among others) will collaborate with Vietnamese partners to establish joint ventures to manufacture and assemble automobiles and trucks.

Low CAR spells doom for state-owned banks

State-owned commercial banks are growing concerned over the critically low capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of around 9 per cent, which also hit the minimum required CAR for the Vietnamese banking system.

Burning question: Uber and Grab’s legal status

Vietnamese lawyers suggest that Vietnam should manage Uber as a transportation firm using a ride-hailing application, based on the European Court of Justice (ECJ)’s decision that Uber is a taxi service.

When it gets cold, it’s time for some greasy seaworms

VietNamNet Bridge – Every late Autumn, when sunbeams gently light up trees, turning them yellow, and light cold front approaches in the north, the ruoi (seaworm) season begins, as it has done for a thousand years.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 30/12

 Cai Mep-Thi Vai Port needs changes, Vietnamese, Thai firms seek to promote trade at business-matching event, Agriculture research results remain on paper, Vietnam, China seek measures to balance trade

Female carpenter the last of her kind

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tien Tay Vam Village in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre is notable not only for its delicate wooden products, but also for the artisans who make them. 

Vietnamese interest in bitcoin in top 5 among global trading floors

Bitcoin has become a focal point globally with prices skyrocketing. On large bitcoin trading floors such as Bittrex, poloniex.com, wex.nz, the number of accesses from Vietnam is in the top 5.

WB economist turns to preserving Hanoi’s urban heritage

 VietNamNet Bridge – Researcher Martin Rama has been appointed as Project Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development at the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities ...

Tears of American former POW as he returns to Hoa Lo prison

Although he has returned to Vietnam many times, when he put his step back into Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, the American anti-war prisoner sergeant Robert P. Chenoweth can’t hold back his feeling.

Property M&A trend higher in 2017

 Both in terms of quantity and quality, 2017 has shaped up to be a landmark year for mergers and acquisitions in the property sector.

Elderly man devoted to rare chicken species

A man in the northern province of Hung Yen has spent up to 40 years in breeding Dong Tao chicken which in the past was used as a delicacy offered to kings.