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For a crab noodle soup restaurant in HCMC, the open secrets to drawing its customers are a special chili sauce and fresh seafood toppings. The sentinel crab noodle restaurant Muoi Ot Do (Red Chili Salt) serves hu tieu ghe (sentinel crab noodle soup) with a variety of seafood toppings to …

After visiting electronics stores, Minh Quan was surprised to see Xiaomi 13 Pro smartphones costing nearly VND7 million (US$297) less than their listed price of VND30 million. Besides offering discounts of VND4-5 million, most stores – in his native Da Nang — also had promotions like trade-in programs and to …

In amendments to the Housing Law it has submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Government wants the duration of apartment ownership to be fixed. With the law currently not spelling out the ownership tenure, people assume their ownership is permanent, and many refuse to relocate, making it difficult …

Authorities in Indonesia’s popular holiday island of Bali have asked the central immigration agency to cancel a visa-on-arrival policy for Russian and Ukrainian nationals after tourists were found working illegally. Russian nationals are among the biggest groups of foreign arrivals in Indonesia, according to official tourism data. At least four …

After visiting electronics stores, Minh Quan was surprised to see Xiaomi 13 Pro smartphones costing nearly VND7 million (US$297) less than their listed price of VND30 million. Besides offering discounts of VND4-5 million, most stores – in his native Da Nang — also had promotions like trade-in programs and to …

Many parents who have spent money to pay for their children’s tuition fees at English language teaching center Apax Leaders are getting back almost nothing as its facilities have closed down. Minh Phat in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 9 has been sending his child to Apax Leaders for English …

Vietnamese consumers are spending less on shopping and eating out as they tighten their spending amid rising inflation and unemployment. Spending in the food and beverage sector started to weaken in the last quarter of 2022, with December sales failing to meet the expectations of many industry insiders, said Lan …

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index dropped 0.02% to 1,052.8 points Monday after rising in four out of five sessions last week. The index closed 0.2 points lower after losing 2.95 points on Friday. Trading on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) increased by 28.37% to VND11.23 trillion ($476.55 million). The VN-30 …

China will resume group tours to 40 more countries, including Vietnam and European countries like France and Italy, from March 15, its Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced. Tour agencies and online travel companies will be able to launch and promote group tours and flight-plus-hotel services to these countries, the …

Prices of gasoline and went up Monday afternoon to the highest since Nov. 11. The popular fuel RON95 went up 2.10% to VND23,810 ($1.01) per liter after two consecutive drops. Biofuel E5 RON92 rose 1.69% to VND22,800 per liter. Diesel ended a streak of three declines in a row with …