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Retail Asia12/04/2017

The Vietnam Logistics Association (VLA) on Wednesday launched a ceremony to implement the Government’s first national action plan to improve the country’s competitiveness and its logistics sector by 2025. Lê Duy Hiệp, VLA chairman, said that VLA had been assigned to complete several tasks of the plan. In February, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc approved the action […]

Retail Asia11/04/2017

A shortage of capital is the key problem of both Line 1 (Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien) and Line 2 (Ben Thanh – Tham Luong) urban railway projects. The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee is the developer responsible for the two projects. At the Metro Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien project, the developer has been slow […]

Retail Asia05/04/2017

HCM City’s technology-based programme to control and trace the origin of pork that began recently is encountering difficulties, according to the Department of Industry and Trade. Speaking at a regular department press briefing, Nguyễn Phương Đông, its deputy director, said 713 pig farms have registered to participate in the programme, but only 99 put rings […]

Retail Asia25/01/2017

HCM City’s People’s Committee had given Vingroup Joint Stock Company (Vingroup JSC) the go-ahead to invest in a sports and entertainment complex in District 2’s new Thủ Thiêm urban area. The complex would be located on 31.39 hectares, and the People’s Committee has approved a district planning scale of 1/2,000, the city’s department of planning […]

Retail Asia27/12/2016

Land prices in HCM City and neigbouring provinces are increasing, with real estate industry insiders attributing it to high liquidity. Nguyễn Quốc Anh, deputy director of Đại Việt Group, said prices have been rising in all districts in the city since the end of last year. He quoted real estate website batdongsan.com.vn as saying that […]

Retail Asia08/12/2016

The country is on track to welcome more than 10 million visitors this year.Driving economic growth in Vietnam, the country’s government portal reported yesterday.The country’s economic growth prospects are strongly driven by its travel and tourism sector, the EIU said. Foreign arrivals reached more than 9 million from January – November this year, a staggering […]

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Logistics association to assist in national plan on competitiveness

HCM City metro projects short on capital

Problems with City pork plan

Vingroup to invest in HCM City sports complex

Price of land on the rise in HCM City

Tourism a driving force behind Vietnam’s economic growth