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Vietnam-Born Pizza 4P's Opens Its First New York Location
Pizza 4P's has entered the US with a Brooklyn restaurant after 15 years of building its brand and cheese operation in Vietnam.
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One New Plant in Bac Ninh Makes Vietnam Johnson Health Tech's Biggest Production Base, Overtaking Shanghai
Johnson Health Tech's second Bac Ninh plant opened in August. Once both Vietnam plants run at full capacity, the company says Vietnam will overtake Shanghai as its largest production base. It went there in 2019 for lower costs; since 2025, a 7.5-point US tariff gap has kept output moving.
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Vietnam's Taxi King Posts Its First Loss in Five Years
Vinasun cut its headcount to a tenth of what it was, switched half its fleet to Toyota hybrids, and still posted its first loss since 2021. First Grab, then Xanh SM. Now Ho Chi Minh City gets to decide whether a hybrid counts as green.
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Has Vietnam's GDP Overtaken Thailand? Yes, and Not Yet
The same IMF report says Vietnam overtakes Thailand this year on purchasing power but not until 2029 in dollars. The difference is exchange rates, and per capita Vietnam is still at 60% of Thailand.
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Vietnam's Home Prices Haven't Fallen. Sales Already Have
Vietnam's housing sales fell by nearly a third in mid-2026 and Hanoi resale apartments dropped for the first time since 2022, but developers would rather raffle a Lamborghini than cut prices.
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Every Generation in Vietnam Knows Her Songs. Who Is Mỹ Tâm, the Queen of V-pop?
Her songs are the soundtrack of a generation, she is the only Vietnamese singer to headline the national stadium alone, and her top ticket costs more than BLACKPINK's. A profile of Mỹ Tâm, 25 years into her career.
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The Toothpaste on a Paris Flight That Led to Vietnam's Biggest Drug Case
Four suitcases, 157 toothpaste tubes, and three years later a trial of 227 people. Police put the network's cash flow at nearly VND 29 trillion and call it the largest drug case in Vietnam's history.
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Bamboo Airways Shrank From 44 Aircraft to One. Why Three Years of Restructuring Have Not Fixed It
Bamboo Airways once flew 787s to London and Sydney. Today one Airbus A321 carries its entire schedule, and the gap between the airline's recovery plans and its actual fleet has never been wider.
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In Vietnam, Closing a Company Costs 20 Times More Than Opening One
Leave a Vietnamese company idle and the system assumes it is still trading. Penalties pile up year after year, the tax authority is now chasing 290,000 such firms, and owners can be barred from leaving the country.
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Vietnam's Crypto Fines Are Here, but the Clock for Binance Users Hasn't Started
Vietnam's crypto penalty decree is in force, but the countdown for offshore exchange users only starts with the country's first license, still unissued at press time.
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Vietnam Is Haidilao's Fastest-Growing Major Market
Vietnam's 30.8% growth makes it Haidilao's fastest-growing major market, within a million dollars of overtaking the US and Malaysia.
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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.