VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoians now begin to flock into supermarts and traditional markets to do shopping for Tet which is coming in two weeks. The purchasing power is expected to increase by 20-30% in the coming days. Fivimart Truc Bach at 9.30 am January 10, 2009Fivimart on Tran Vu Street in Hanoi was seen full [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – A veteran British photographer, who become famous during the war in Indochina for his work, is exhibiting and selling prints of his photos at HCM City’s Cepage restaurant. The innocents in war: A war time photo taken by Tim Page on sale at Cepage restaurant in HCM City.Dozens of large and mediumsized [...]
An aerial view of central Hanoi. The move to sell ancient villas has drawn criticism from several members of the People’s Council, who argue that they are an intrinsic part of the city’s culture that should be preserved. Hanoi will sell hundreds of villas currently leased by residents and enterprises, while those having significant cultural [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – An oil-engine 2.0 CRDi MLX Santa Fe by Hyundai, which was sold for $52,000 one year ago, is now selling for only $42,000. Ford Vietnam has announced car price reductions for December 2008. All of Ford’s models, including the Focus, Everest, Ranger and Transit, but not Mondeo, will see price reductions of [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Travel agencies in the city have dropped their prices for both domestic and foreign tours to lure more customers during the last weeks of the year. “Tour costs have reduced because airlines have cut ticket prices for the year-end low tourist season”.Vietravel is offering five and six-day tours to Thailand with Lufthansa [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The sale season in HCM City kicked off the first week of November. Sidewalks these days are full of handbags, footwear and clothes. Meanwhile, shops have announced discounts of 70-80%. A series of well-known fashion brand names have launched promotion programmes, offering big discounts of 50-70%. At Sea Collection, a fashion shop on [...]
A photo from the matching making agency’s website shows a double Korea-Vietnam wedding. When the transaction is primarily commercial in nature, marriages are made in hell. She saw marriage to a wealthy foreigner as an escape from “private misfortune,” but V had no idea what she was letting herself in for.After living with her South [...]
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday extended an emergency ban on short selling in more than 950 financial stocks to give Congress time to finish legislation to rescue the financial system. The Securities and Exchange Commission said the ban would [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – TigerInvest, a merger and acquisition (M&A) brokerage company, said it has received 670 offers to sell businesses so far this year, while the figure was just 300 last year. According to TigerInvest, it seems that more and more business owners want to sell the businesses they took great pains to build up [...]
Vietnam’s government will re-examine a plan to sell US$1 billion worth of foreign currency-denominated bonds because of turmoil in global markets, a deputy prime minister said. “We have a plan to issue a bond in the international market,” Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem told Bloomberg News during a visit to New York. “But given [...]
