The Ministry of Health (MoH) is finalising a draft law on alcohol-related harms prevention and control and plans to submit it to the National Assembly for consideration in May 2018.
Research by real estate services provider Savills Vietnam published recently showed that more than 80 percent of people who bought a second home in the central city of Da Nang are from Hanoi.
Shares sank for the third day on the two national stock exchanges, driven by record foreign sales in the final reallocation trading day for Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs).
Car sales in Vietnam last August fell 17 percent from the previous month to 23,540 units, attributable to consumers’ unwillingness to do big business like car purchases in the “Ghost Month”.
The 12th International Travel Expo kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on September 8, bringing together a large number of domestic and foreign travel companies.
HCM City's annual sales promotion month from August 30 until the end of the year is expected to boost retail sales and attract a large number of local and foreign visitors.
The Thai government is considering the possibility of suspending sales of rice for a short time, given fluctuating rice prices, currency volatility and uncertainty over the weather.
Shares walked a tightrope on August 18 under heavy selling pressure by foreign investors while volatile global oil prices pushed oil and gas stocks down.
The property market tends to stagnate in August, a normal thing for this time of the year as August coincides with the seventh lunar month, traditionally called the Ghost Month.
Laptop sales have plateaued despite companies launching new products to stimulate the market, with insiders blaming it on the economy and a switch by consumers to tablets.
The total revenue from retail trade and services hit 89.6 billion USD during the first seven months of this year, up 9.4 percent year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The consumer price index (CPI) in Hanoi continued to go up in July, the seventh consecutive month of growth, the municipal Statistics Office (GSO) reported.
Vietnamese people bought more than 24,400 cars in June, an increase of 31 percent compared with the same period last year, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said.
Vietnam’s motorcycle market has seen an increase in its sales for the first time since 2012, reaching 1.4 million vehicles in the first six months of 2016.
Vietnam’s automobile sales in June totaled 24,421 units, dropping six percent against the previous month, announced the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) on July 8.
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