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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.
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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.