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Vietnam Airlines reported a loss of VND10.09 trillion ($430.3 million) last year and blamed it on rises in fuel prices and exchange rate volatility. Its revenues were worth around VND71 trillion, equivalent to 70% of revenues in 2019 before the Covid-19…
Vietnam Airlines has expanded its Tet schedule for a fourth time with 108 additional flights with 20,000 seats. The airline said most of the flights are from HCMC and Hanoi to Vinh, Thanh Hoa, Hai Phong, Da Nang, and Hue. In all there will 9,200 flights with…
Hanoians are struggling to book ride-hailing and delivery services during the runup to Tet (Lunar New Year holidays). Hoang Viet of Nam Tu Liem District had an interminable wait before he could get a motorbike on a ride-hailing app on January 15 evening. He…
Coca-Cola Vietnam set a world record for the largest Vietnamese Tet meal table with the participation of 1,000 multi-generation families in Ho Chi Minh City on January 8. The meal was recognized as a record-setting event by the World Records Union…
Consumer goods, including vegetables and seafood, have seen prices surge by double digits in the last month. Oanh in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 said prices have risen in recent weeks at a traditional market she often shops at. “The price of snakehead fish…
Air ticket prices for Vietnam’s upcoming biggest holiday Tet has doubled year-on-year as tourism demand resumed after a Covid-19 induced hiatus. A return trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi from Jan. 19 to 26, when most people return to their hometown to…
Major factories in Ho Chi Minh City reported over 90 percent of employees returning to work after the nine-day Tet holiday, abating employer concerns of a labor shortage. Some factories with high return rates are Samsung electronics manufacturer HCMC CE…
The VN-Index began the new lunar year with a 1.5-percent jump Monday morning, led by aviation and energy stocks. It gained 22 points to 1,503 points at 11.20 as the market reopened after the nine-day Tet break, reaching a near four-week high. It represents a…
Thousands of workers of Taiwanese-invested footwear maker Pouchen Vietnam, a Nike contract manufacturer, struck work Friday, demanding the same Tet bonus as last year. They refused to return to work after finishing their lunch to protest the company’s policy…
Air tickets for the upcoming Tet holiday are in low demand as people are reluctant to make travel plans due to the long quarantine time and a rising number of Covid-19 cases. In previous years, Loan’s family had usually finished booking six Tet (Vietnam’s…
Vietravel Airlines, Vietnam’s sixth carrier, has received permission to fly aircraft for commercial purposes, and plans to begin operations in mid-January. It received the aircraft operator certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) last…
With a week to go before the Lunar New Year, or Tet, supermarkets in Hanoi are thronged with shoppers. Lees ook: LG and Naver are teaming up to make robots better DTI to showcase Filipino retail brands in Jakarta WhatsApp calls log could soon be integrated…
Many people in Hanoi and Saigon were unable to withdraw cash from ATMs while online bank transfers also took longer than usual during the weekend. Three ATMs belonging to a bank on Hanoi’s Pham Ngoc Thach Street stopped working several times in the past few…
Banks, ATMs, and online banking systems have been overloaded towards the end of the Lunar New Year, forcing customers to wait long hours. Hoa went to a major bank on Hanoi’s Duy Tan Street early one recent afternoon to process the payment of a loan. She was…
Taxis are refusing to charge by the meter and ride-hailing apps have doubled ‘peak hour’ prices and added surcharges as Tet draws close. Monday evening, five days before the Lunar New Year (Tet), Hoang Viet requested a car on ride-hailing app Grab. He was…
Vietnam recorded the fourth highest mobile in-app ad revenues (eCPM) in the Asia-Pacific region during Tet 2018. It ranked behind China, Singapore and the Philippines, according to a report recently released by Vietnamese digital advertising service company…
