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Vietnam holds its once-every-five-years national election tomorrow, with 73.5 million voters choosing 500 National Assembly representatives — the first election after sweeping administrative reforms.
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Fuel prices surge 27% and Ho Chi Minh City's Metro Line 1 ridership jumps nearly 25%, from 52,000 to almost 60,000 daily passengers in one week.
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After VN-Index's record single-day crash, billionaire heirs and company founders registered to buy over VND 2 trillion worth of their own stocks within two days.
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Wujia Tea is barely known in Taiwan. In Vietnam, it used a cart franchise model to open 400 stores in six years, overtaking every other Taiwanese bubble tea brand in the country.
Stock Market
The VN-Index lost over 100 points on March 9 — the biggest single-day drop in Vietnamese stock market history. Oil at USD 118 and margin calls turned a bad week into a historic crash.
Real Estate
Vietnam has started assigning electronic ID codes to every property in the country, tackling one of Southeast Asia's most opaque real estate markets. The rules are in place — the system isn't.
Vietnam Economy
The Strait of Hormuz blockade reaches Vietnam's gas stations — fuel prices jumped twice in two days, with diesel breaking VND 30,000 per liter.
Vietnamese Culture
Vietnam celebrates Women's Day twice a year. Flower prices triple, tens of thousands join an ao dai flash mob, and the scale of celebration is hard to find anywhere else.
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Ho Chi Minh City's Independence Palace has a new act — VietCharm, a 90-minute dining show pairing 9 traditional performances with 8 Vietnamese fusion courses. Its first three days sold out completely.
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Four Vietnamese passengers hid 31 suspected gold bars in their bras and underwear on a flight from Taiwan. Hanoi customs caught them using X-rays and risk profiling. Bringing gold bars into Vietnam is illegal — the maximum sentence is 10 years.
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Born in 1938 in colonial Hanoi, Vovinam has grown from an underground resistance art to a global sport practiced in over 70 countries — complete with a signature flying scissor kick, an inverted belt ranking, and a UN partnership.