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In a country where 5G already covers 92% of the population, Starlink is a backup service, not a challenger. The clue to its real ambitions is a job ad SpaceX posted in Hanoi two days before launch.
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Vietnam's high deposit rates are a symptom of a banking liquidity gap. If the currency gain ever arrives, the 7% interest won't still be there.
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VinSpace has secured a SpaceX launch contract for 2027. It still has to build its satellites, prove them in orbit and turn their capabilities into services people pay for.
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November 24 is now a paid public holiday in Vietnam, taking the annual total to 12 days. The legal basis is a National Assembly resolution, not the Labour Code — which still lists 11.
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A Japanese outlet framed the drop in Vietnamese workers as a reaction to xenophobia. The original Vietnamese report never mentioned it. What actually changed is that factories back home now pay about what Japan does.
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Vietnam scrapped its decades-old presumptive tax this year. Tax officers used to estimate your revenue and collect a fixed sum; now you declare what you actually earned. The tax-free threshold rose to VND1 billion at the same time, so most small shops owe nothing — what got heavier is the paperwork.
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Ten Ren reopened in Hanoi in May and announced plans to return to Ho Chi Minh City. Its first attempt in Vietnam lasted 21 months and ended when its local licensee, not Taiwan headquarters, decided to shut all 23 stores.
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A reader asked why Vietnam's big cities stay busy past midnight, and why 24-hour cafes actually have customers. We followed the question from the pre-dawn wholesale market all the way to the policy documents Hanoi issued this year.
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How did the Vietnamese caregivers and factory workers you see in Taiwan get here — and why are they the largest group of undocumented workers? Seen from Vietnam, this isn't a "migrant problem" but a 40-year-old industry called labor export.
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Vietnam's National Wage Council has signed off on a 7.8% average minimum wage increase for 2027. For firms already paying above the legal floor, the real cost isn't base pay — it's the social insurance pegged to the minimum wage. Here's where costs actually rise, and how companies respond.
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Overtime bonuses, per-table surcharges and an 89,000-dong ticket combo — how Vietnam's food and drink scene turned a 2 AM World Cup final into a full night of business.
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Vietnam's MoMo is a payment super app; Taiwan's momo is an e-commerce giant. The two namesakes hit opposite turning points — one turned its first profit in 2024 and now has Blackstone and MUFG bidding for its shares; the other posted its first-ever revenue decline in 2025.