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Bank borrowers are complaining that they still have to pay high interests despite banks cutting rates, with reductions only being applied to new loans. Duc Anh in Hanoi found he received a mere 0.15 percentage points discount from 14.7% to 14.55% a year after the State Bank of Vietnam lowered …

Ho Chi Minh City leaders have ordered plans for a shaded area on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street and Bach Dang Wharf Park in the heart of the downtown area. Chairman Phan Van Mai has ordered Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Planning and Architecture to work with District 1 on …

The British travel guide Lonely Planet has named The Reunification Express, or Vietnam’s north-south railway, one of the most incredible rail trips in the world. The railway stretches for more than 1,726 kilometers between the country’s two biggest cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City over the course of …