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Retail Asia28/02/2024

Siemens has expressed interest in Vietnam’s North-South highspeed railway and offered to provide vehicles for the project. Siemens president and CEO Roland Busch told Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a meeting in Hanoi Monday that the company can transfer the technology of building carriages and can provide the trailway signal system for the project. […]

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Retail Asia28/08/2023

Hanoi apartment owners are spending up to hundreds of million dong (VND100 million = $4,200) on parking spots in their building due to insufficient space to accommodate increasing car ownership. For the first time in two years, Phuong Linh in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District was able to park her car in the basement of her […]

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Retail Asia12/05/2023

At a building in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District on Wednesday evening, many queued up outside to register to buy an apartment at NHS Trung Van, a new social housing project that has been available since the end of March. The project is being built on a 2,700-square-meter area in Nam Tu Liem. When completed it […]

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Retail Asia10/05/2023

Hanoi Metro, the operator of the capital’s first metro line, posted its first profit last year at nearly VND97 billion ($4.14 million). The profit was a turnaround from the VND37 billion loss recorded in 2021. The company saw revenues surge sevenfold to VND483 billion. The Cat Linh – Ha Dong Metro Line began commercial operation […]

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Retail Asia25/04/2023

Amid rising interest rates, Hanoi’s cash-strapped villa investors are slashing prices by up to 40% to lure customers. Loi spent VND32.5 billion (nearly $1.4 million) on a 180-square meter villa near Ring Road No. 3.5 in mid-2022. He paid for the house with a bank loan and VND11 billion of his own money hoping his […]

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Retail Asia30/12/2022

The number of house and apartment transactions in the north and the south in 2022 fell to the lowest level in 5 years, according to report by real estate agencies. The report said that the apartment market in Ho Chi Minh City and in some southern provinces has been on the decline throughout the year. […]

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Retail Asia28/12/2022

The Cat Linh – Ha Dong Metro Line in Hanoi has received an additional VND911 billion ($38.6 million) capital increase. The money will come from state coffers, with 24.4% of it from domestic funds and the rest foreign funds, according to a decision signed by Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai. The Ministry of Planning […]

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Retail Asia16/11/2022

The Hanoi Department of Transportation has proposed to the municipal People’s Committee that a public bike service be launched in the capital city for a 12-month trial period. Under the proposal, private firm Tri Nam will provide 1,000 bikes, 50% of them electric, at 94 locations in the city. The pilot project is set to […]

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Retail Asia01/11/2022

Hanoi company Airlios has demonstrated a flying electric car which it plans to sell commercially in 2024. The single seater, also called Airlios, could fly vertically to reach 10 meters within 10 seconds and then fly at speeds of 100 kilometers per hour, the company said at a recent exhibition. It can rise to as […]

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Retail Asia16/09/2022

More than 100 jars of rice wine distilled with pythons, large lizards, cobras and deer have been found at two condo apartments in Hanoi. The wine had been put up for sale at the two apartments in La Khe Ward of Hanoi’s Ha Dong District. The owners of the wine could not provide legal papers […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2022

Power output in the northern region topped 22,800 megawatts at noon on Monday, 9 percent higher than last year’s peak, amid an ongoing heatwave. Hanoi and 14 provinces in the northern and central regions have been recording temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), and the heatwave is likely to continue for […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2022

Grab has become the first ride-hailing firm in Vietnam to announce a new surcharge on its motorbike services starting Thursday. The surcharges are VND5,000 (20 U.S. cents) for each GrabBike trip and GrabFood order in some localities including HCMC, Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Can Tho. GrabExpress services in HCMC and Hanoi will attract […]

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Retail Asia17/05/2022

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Japanese retail giant Aeon Mall wants to invest in 3-4 more projects in Hanoi by 2025. At a recent meeting with Hanoi Party secretary Dinh Tien Dung, Nagakawa Tetsuyuki, general director of Aeon Mall Vietnam, said the Aeon Mall Hoang Mai project is now in its last preparation stages for investment. It has enough funds, […]

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Retail Asia11/04/2022

Housing prices in Hanoi rose the most in five years, driven up by limited supply and the specter of inflation. According to leading properconsultancy CBRE, the average price of a new apartment increased by 13 percent to US$1,655 per square meter. In the secondary market, it was up 9 percent at $1,278. In Vietnam, housing […]

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Retail Asia06/01/2022

Ride-haling platform Gojek has launched its GoCar Protect service in Hanoi a month after introducing it in HCMC. The Indonesia-headquartered company guarantees that all its drivers have got two doses of Covid-19 vaccines and all cars are equipped with an air purifier and a transparent protective shield to separate drivers and passengers. Drivers must take […]

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Retail Asia08/12/2021

Samsung has invested $17.74 billion in Vietnam in the last 24 years, 29 percent of it in the last five. With eight manufacturing and research facilities in the country, the South Korean electronics giant achieved revenues of nearly $60.5 billion in the first 10 months of this year, Samsung Vietnam CEO Choi Joo Ho told […]

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Retail Asia07/12/2021

Hanoi plans to ban motorbikes in core districts after 2025, five years earlier than an earlier plan, in order to reduce traffic congestion and emissions. The ban will apply to all districts within the third ring road and on three major roads: Truong Sa, Hoang Sa and National Highway 5, according to a plan being […]

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Retail Asia25/11/2021

Private hospitals in HCMC and Hanoi are reporting losses after months of limited operations necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic. After four years of making a profit, the Tam Duc Heart Hospital in HCMC’s District 7 posted a loss of VND13 billion ($571,440) in the third quarter this year. Its revenue plunged 63 percent to nearly […]

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Retail Asia19/10/2021

Hang Xanh Motors Service JSC (Haxaco), a major Mercedes-Benz dealer in Vietnam, reported a record loss, more than VND33 billion ($1.4 million) in Q3, due to social distancing orders. Revenue in Q3 was VND700 billion, down 59 percent compared to the same period last year. Social distancing measures applied in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City […]

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Retail Asia07/10/2021

The first Ritz-Carlton branded residences in Vietnam is set to open in late 2023. Masterise Homes and Marriot International on May 10 announced the signing of an agreement for The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Hanoi, a standalone luxury branded residential project that marks the debut of the Ritz-Carlton brand in Vietnam, slated to open in late 2023. […]

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