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ShopeeFood and GrabFood have carved up Vietnam's food delivery market between them, while Baemin, Gojek and Loship have all exited. A small platform founded in Hanoi by a Japanese university dropout survives on a simple premise: nine out of ten of its users aren't Vietnamese.
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He wrote about ordinary people in wartime and refused to take sides — so both sides banned his music. Twenty-five years after his death, tribute concerts run from Ho Chi Minh City's Book Street to Singapore, and his most famous singing partner, 81-year-old Khánh Ly, came home to visit his grave.
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Just 400 meters from shore, a speedboat rated for 34 people but carrying 36 flipped over, killing 15 Indian tourists. It wasn't a one-off — a year earlier, 39 people died in a freak storm on Ha Long Bay. Vietnam's tourist boats keep sinking over the same safety gaps.
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An 8.18% first half is Vietnam's best in 15 years, and FDI pledges nearly matched all of last year in six months. But a trade balance that was in surplus a year ago has swung to a USD 16.6 billion deficit — and the government's answer is to aim even higher.
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It sits on the most expensive land in Ho Chi Minh City, its cafes are technically illegal, and eviction notices went out back in 2016. Nearly a decade later, the shops are still open. What protects the building may simply be the tourists climbing its stairs every day.
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Behind the fast growth, Q4 flashed a warning: prices climbed while volume shrank. Platforms ended subsidies and raised fees, sellers passed costs into prices, and shoppers bought less. Vietnam's e-commerce is leaving the era when online always meant cheaper.
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In a single week, Vietnam Airlines opened its first Amsterdam route, private carriers doubled down on fleets, and three new airlines lined up to enter. The demand is real — but it is almost all international, and the supply side has three chokepoints.
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Foreigners can buy property in Vietnam — but never the land. What you get is a 50-year ownership certificate known as the pink book. Understand that, and every other rule makes sense, from the 30% quota to the ban on condotels to what happens when the term runs out.
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Inspired by an iridescent sky over Saigon, this Vietnamese table lamp swept design media in April and won New York's People's Choice award in May. Behind it, a Vietnamese contract factory hatching a brand of its own.
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Most visitors to Ho Chi Minh City know its book street. Fewer know Hanoi has one too — built on a former mass grave, once home to the 'Hell Market.' One turned ten as a city icon selling fewer and fewer books; the other nearly died before a revival. What should a book street sell next?
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The World Bank moved Vietnam into its upper-middle-income group on July 1, with GNI per capita at $4,970, a climb 40 years in the making. But growth trails Hanoi's 10% target, trade has flipped to deficit, and the middle-income trap that caught Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia looms ahead.
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Posts claiming every traveler entering Vietnam from July 1 must file a health declaration misread the new decree. No declaration has been activated for any disease, nothing needs to be filed today, and the old declaration site circulating online is no longer official.