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Memory Chip Prices Are Squeezing Samsung's Vietnam Phone Plants
The same memory price surge that gave Samsung's chip business a record quarter cut net margins nearly in half at its two Vietnamese phone factories.
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Vietnam Uses Claude at Half the Expected Rate, and Mostly for Coding
The same dataset puts Taiwan at 2.08x expected usage and Vietnam at 0.53x. The gap is nearly fourfold, and the mix is different too: Vietnamese users lean on Claude for coding and technical reference, while business and investing use is just getting started.
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Thailand's KBank Has Lost Money in Vietnam for Five Straight Years
Thailand's second-largest bank walked into Vietnam with a billion-dollar budget. Five years on, its Ho Chi Minh City branch has lost roughly VND1.02 trillion before tax.
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Vu Lan and Ghost Month in Vietnam: North, South, and the Three Altars
The full moon of the seventh lunar month is two festivals at once in Vietnam: Buddhist Vu Lan and the folk day for wandering souls. Families set three altars, and in Chợ Lớn shop owners throw banknotes into the street for people to grab.
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Vietnam Retain the ASEAN Cup and the Whole Country Hits the Streets: What Is Đi Bão?
Vietnam retained the ASEAN Cup on August 26 and, minutes later, the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were a sea of red flags and motorbikes. This is đi bão.
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Why Are Vietnamese Restaurants Called Phở 10, Phở 24, and Bánh mì 362? Three Sources of the Numbers
Phở 10, Bánh mì 25, Bún mắm 444, Bánh mì 362. The numbers on Vietnamese shop signs are mostly house numbers, sometimes years, sometimes lucky digits. They are easy to remember, easy to find, and easy to copy.
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Vietnam Brings Cross-Border E-Commerce Under Customs Control From March 2027
Vietnam has amended its Customs Law to bring cross-border e-commerce under formal oversight from March 2027, with buyers and sellers required to pass electronic ID checks and platforms required to link data to customs. Key details still depend on future decrees.
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The Vietnamese Noodle-Stall Worker in Left-Handed Girl Is a Real Court Interpreter
Left-Handed Girl went from Cannes to the Oscar shortlist to two more Taiwanese awards in July 2026. The Vietnamese woman working the noodle stall on screen is Chen Chiu-liu, born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1983, a shoe-factory worker who married into Taiwan in 2003.
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Thinking of Retiring in Vietnam? Read This Saigon Cost-of-Living Breakdown First
The "$1,000 a month in Vietnam" era is over. A comfortable life in Saigon's expat bubble now runs about $2,500 a month. And for anyone planning to stay, money is not even the hard part — the visa is.
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The Girl Who Went Viral Speaking Seven Languages Is Now Vietnam's National MC
A selfie video in seven languages made Khánh Vy famous in 2016. A decade later, she is the youngest-ever host of Vietnam's flagship quiz show and runs a media business followed by millions.
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Why Is Vietnam So Obsessed With Pickleball? From a Few Hundred Players to an Industry in Two Years
In mid-2023, all of Ho Chi Minh City had a few hundred pickleball players. Two years later Vietnam has a national federation, nearly VND 1 trillion in 10-month equipment sales online, and the Pickleball World Cup opening in Da Nang on August 30 — here is why the sport took off.
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Half of All Nike Shoes Are Made in Vietnam. Eighteen Months of Tariffs Didn't Change That
US tariffs on Vietnam changed four times in eighteen months. Nike's Vietnam share of footwear went from 44% to 52% anyway. The reason has less to do with tariffs than with who actually owns the factories.