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Hanoi broke ground on five metro lines at once, more than 300km in total, due in four years. The number to watch isn't the budget — it's three changes in how it's being built.
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From July, Vietnamese airlines must refund and compensate passengers for long delays. But the money only flows when the delay is the airline's own fault — so can VietJet, famous for late flights, slip through?
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Vietnam's Resolution 10 shifts FDI from quantity to quality. The capital target barely moved — what changed is the incentive logic: from granted on arrival to paid on performance, with clawbacks. An opening for tech-bearing investors, a warning for pure assembly.
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2026 is the Year of the Horse. Saigon's century-old Phú Thọ Racetrack — once Asia's largest — is being turned into a park. Here's the story it leaves behind.
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[Leaving the West, Returning to the Place Their Parents Left — The Việt Kiều Reverse Migration] Half a million Vietnamese return from overseas every year. Of those, 25,000 choose to stay. They're not tourists. They're not just visiting family. They're reverse migrants — raised and
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Tết means closed shops, pricier hotels, and empty ATMs. But an empty Ho Chi Minh City might be something you'll only ever see once.
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Phu My 2.2 was Vietnam's first internationally tendered BOT project — $400 million invested, 20 years operated, now successfully transferred. A benchmark for Vietnam's PPP model.
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Vietnamese office workers are hiring choreographers, renting concert-grade gear, and going viral on TikTok — all for the company year-end party.
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An offshore field called Hải Sư Vàng holds over 400 million barrels of recoverable oil — the third-largest Southeast Asian discovery this century. It arrives just as Vietnam's output has been in freefall.
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[When a Stand-Up Comic Picked Up a Camera — One Việt Kiều's Search for Roots] In 2017, Fred Le did something his family couldn't understand: he moved to Vietnam. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was the child of refugees who fled after
Industry
Vietnam's lottery industry pulls in USD 6.5 billion a year. Behind the jackpots are 500,000 street vendors earning under USD 10 a day.
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Vietnam's headline inflation sits below target. But rent, food and school fees are rising much faster than the average, and some families now save almost nothing each month.