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Nguyen Thi Hoa, who lives in Tay Ho district in Hanoi, has actively reduced her electricity usage over the past two months.

During the 2023 Ninh Binh tourism week themed "The Golden Colour of Tam Coc - Trang An" that took place from May 27 to June 4, the northern province of Ninh Binh welcomed about 172,570 visitors, double the figure of last year’s event.

The Indonesian government plans to prohibit the export of liquified natural gas (LNG) to help supply domestic industries, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has said.

Experts believe outlet stores would provide an effective solution to the problem of lukewarm consumption demand as they encourage consumers to spend more on deeply-discounted products.

Gold remains a potential investment channel until the end of this year, though the global economy in general, and Vietnam in particular, still possess potential risk factors related to recession and inflation, which make it difficult to forecast the gold price, experts said.

Vietjet is opening a series of new international routes, including Ho Chi Minh City - Kochi (India), Da Nang – Hong Kong (China), Phu Quoc – Hong Kong, Da Nang - Singapore, Da Nang - Daegu (the Republic of Korea), Nha Trang - Seoul (Incheon, the RoK), to meet travel demand in summer.

A mere 11% of the nearly 200,000 workers at industrial and economic zones across Hai Phong have high professional and technical qualifications, hence the northern port city’s enormous demand for a high-quality workforce between now and 2025.

Occupations relating to information technology, high-tech and supporting industries are employment groups with high recruitment demand, experts have said.

Ho Chi Minh City needs to be supported by specific mechanisms and policies that are strong enough to remove bottlenecks faced by the city and enable it to create breakthrough developments, experts said.

The Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam (MXV) is to play an increasingly important role in global trade with changes in the Southeast Asia economy's supply and demand impacting the listed prices of commodities on global exchanges, said trade experts at a workshop held in Hanoi on May 17.

Thailand's fruit prices have been consistently rising, driven by increasing demand from the Chinese market, improving transport services and falling shipping costs.

Indonesia's trade surplus in April increased from the previous month, with imports softening due to less production activities during the holiday of Ramadan, according to a poll conducted by Reuters.

Malaysia posted a 2.7% increase in the total number of jobs in the first quarter of this year to 8.81 million jobs compared to 8.57 million jobs in the same period last year, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

Demand for gold in Vietnam fell by 12% year-on-year in the first quarter to 17.2 tonnes, according to the latest Gold Demand Trends report from the World Gold Council.

According to the Vietnam Association of Realtors (VARS), the segment of social and affordable housing will grow because urban development is still attracting the attention of investors.

Thailand's strong tourism recovery had a positive impact on housing demand and property renovation at major tourist destinations in the first quarter of this year, according to construction material distributors and residential housing developers.

Strong rice export demand coupled with waning supplies have caused prices to surge in the market since the beginning of 2023.

Travel agents in Vietnam are making necessary preparations for the upcoming Hung Kings Commemoration Day, National Reunification and May Day holidays from April 29 to May 3, as the travel demand is forecast to surge.

The price of black tiger shrimp in the first months of the year dropped sharply, causing farmers to suffer heavy losses due to the lack of export orders.

The upcoming holidays of Hung Kings Commemoration Day, National Reunification and May Day from April 29 to May 3 are expected to be a good chance for transport enterprises to accelerate operations to better serve people’s increasing travel demand.