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Dragon fruit prices have tripled year-on-year in southern farms after China resumed border trading. Farmers in Tien Giang Province are selling the red-fleshed dragon fruit at VND38,000 ($1.62) per kilogram and white-fleshed for VND32,000, up 10% from before the Lunar New Year holiday and triple from the same time last …

Property developer FLC has failed to organize an extraordinary meeting as the number of participants at the meeting held less than 50% of the voting shares. The company said that 103 shareholders showed up at at the meeting on Sunday but that they held only a combined 32.15% stake. FLC …

China started allowing its domestic travel agencies to organize outbound tours to 20 selected countries beginning Monday in its latest effort to revive its tourism post Covid. The20 destinations are Argentina, Cambodia, Cuba, Egypt, Fiji, Hungary, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South …

Police in Thailand’s Phuket resort island have detained four Nigerian men for overstaying their visas for three to four years. The arrests came following tip-offs from local residents in Muang District, who said the foreigners acted suspiciously, Bangkok Post reported late last week. Police said the group of Nigerian citizens …

With ChatGPT still not available in Vietnam, service providers are offering to set up accounts for fees of up to VND200,000 (US$8.52). Seeing friends chat with the artificial intelligence-based chatbot provided by U.S. startup OpenAI, Hong Nhung, an office clerk in the central city of Da Nang, tried to create …

With ChatGPT still not available in Vietnam, service providers are offering to set up accounts for fees of up to VND 200,000 (US$8.5). Seeing friends chat with the artificial intelligence-based chatbot provided by U.S. startup OpenAI, Hong Nhung, an office clerk in the central city of Da Nang, tried to …

Vietnam Airlines is looking for a consultancy to help it sell a stake in fuel distributing subsidiary Skypec amid the threat delisting from the stock market for making losses. The company said in a statement that consultancies could make their offers until February 8. Skypec, wholly owned by Vietnam Airlines, …

The demand-pull and cost-push inflation will put pressure on the country’s efforts to control inflation amid surging demand and strengthening of the US dollar which yields increased import prices. It will not be easy to keep inflation at 4.5% this year as targeted, economic expert Nguyen Bich Lam, former General …

Airports across Vietnam handled more than 9.8 million passengers in January, an increase of 13.8% compared to the previous month, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV). Of the total, the number of international passengers reached 2.3 million, a 10% rise month on month, while the number of …

Although occupancy rates for serviced small apartments of 28-45 sqm for rent in HCMC stand at 90-95%, most larger ones of 90-110 sqm have been left vacant. The owner of a serviced apartment project on Huynh Van Banh Street, Phu Nhuan District, said occupancy for small apartments had been at …