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Investors claim they can now use cryptocurrency Pi to pay for various purchases despite technical and legal uncertainties. Nguyen Tam of Hanoi said he bought a used laptop from an electronics store in Hanoi last Friday with Pi. The device, costing less than VND10 million (US$420), was sold for 200 …

The Intel vPro platform offers a comprehensive solution for businesses to increase productivity, protect business assets and maintain business organizations to get over the Covid-19 pandemic. The long term effects of Covid-19 have forced the world to quickly find new ways to live safely with it while maintaining stable socio-economic …

Vietnam gasoline prices on Thursday fell to the lowest in five months as global rates decline. The Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Industry and Trade adjusted RON95 prices down 12.1 percent to VND26,070 ($1.11) per liter. This means RON95 is now 20.7 percent lower than this year’s peak on …

IT giant FPT Corp has reported pre-tax profits of VND3.6 trillion ($153.8 million) for the first half, a 23.9 percent rise year-on-year. Its revenues were up 22.2 percent to VND19.8 trillion. Rising demand for technologies, especially for digital transformation and telecommunication, was the main growth driver, its management said. Technology …

Chinese authorities will no longer penalize Vietnamese seafood exporters with a temporary ban if their containers are found contaminated with Covid-19, that country’s embassy in Hanoi has said. Exporters used to face a seven-day ban for every container of theirs found contaminated with the coronavirus. A seafood exporter who was …

According to Gijae Seong, Head of Amazon Global Selling Vietnam, cross-border e-commerce has created opportunities for Vietnamese businesses to be empowered.     Cross-border e-commerce: The game for the brave The Next Power

Mack Rutherford, the world’s youngest licensed pilot, who is trying to break THE round-the-world solo flight record, landed in Da Nang City Tuesday. The 16-year-old British-Belgian is trying to become the youngest person to fly solo across the globe, the British embassy in Hanoi said on its Facebook page. A …

Many tourists are ruing summer vacation burdens, having to catch early-morning flights to avoid airport crowds, struggle to find a restaurant and wait for hours to get on a ferry. “Too crowded. It was really a nightmare and my family were totally exhausted because of overcrowding and sizzling weather,” said …

Some 50 out of 140 vendors at Dai Quang Minh, HCMC’s largest garment market, are left without power after refusing to sign new contracts with 50-130 percent higher rents. Minh, a vendor, said the market operator, Satraseco, has removed the circuit breaker in her shop and locked the way in. …

The heatwave surcharge it has started collecting recently goes to its drivers as a means to improve service quality, ride-hailing company Grab has said. The company collects the surcharge because its “driver-partners” have to work in extreme weather conditions, its co-founder and CEO, Anthony Tan, told Deputy Prime Minister Le …