Author: Kevin Le

Market experts warned that investors should be cautious as trading might become choppy as the VN-Index market approaches the 1,200-point landmark. The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange gained 0.22 per cent to end Friday’s trading session at 1,166.78 points. It had lost 2.3 per cent last week. An average of 810.6 million shares were traded on the southern exchange during each session last week, worth VNĐ17.4 trillion (US$754.1 million). According to Mirae Asset Securities Co, the VN-Index suffered a strong decline session on Tuesday last week after the index hit its historic peak of 1,200 points.…

Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to Vietnam Kidong Park praised Vietnam’s achievements in COVID-19 fight in an interview given to Vietnam News. It has been a year since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Vietnam, how has WHO assessed the prevention and control of the pandemic in Vietnam? Vietnam is a country with large, ageing population and lower-middle-income economy. It is close to China with land crossing borders with multiple countries. Despite these, Vietnam has been managing the COVID-19 outbreaks effectively, keeping the number of cases, including deaths, relatively lower than those of other countries. The…

 Vietnamese expatriates in Cambodia pin high hopes on the upcoming 13th National Party Congress, expecting for more effective policies and guidelines to support Vietnamese nationals who have always turned their hearts to the homeland. Trần Văn Bảo, Chairman of the Khmer-Vietnamese Association in Battambang province, expressed his pride when recalling Vietnam’s good control of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year, holding that under the sound leadership of the Party and State, the country overcame a gloomy time when it was battered by both the outbreak and serious flooding in the central region. Bao said the Vietnamese expats are expecting…

As a member bonsai lovers group for more than 20 years, Le Thanh, a retired bank employee, has travelled all over the country seeking the coolest bonsai to add to his burgeoning collection. He’s even done something pretty unusual, having had the wacky idea of growing bonsai upside down back in 2010. “On one of my trips to Quang Binh Province I noticed a tree growing down from the roof of a cave,” he explained. “It attracted my attention straight away, and inspired me to learn how I could train my bonsai to grow in such an unnatural position.” More…

Overlooking Ngoc Khanh Lake in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh District, Ốc Thị Nở restaurant has a pleasant view that helps diners feel relaxed as they enjoy a variety of dishes of freshwater snails. It is such a nice place for a delicious dining for any visitors.  The restaurant is not at all posh, bearing a modest tone with wooden furniture and murals of Hanoi. It’s a great place to enjoy a gentle breeze from Ngọc Khanh Lake, though, especially if you reserve a table on the balcony or the terrace. It offers almost every single snail dish you can think of.…

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra retains its strong hold on the top spot on our trending phones top 10  chart for the second week in a row with the compact Galaxy S21 and Xiaomi Mi 11 joining it on the podium. However, the trending phones of the second and third handset did not garner as much interest as the Ultra. After three high-end phones, we’re seeing a rapid change of pace with the entry-level Samsung Galaxy A12 in fourth place, while the resurgence of the Poco M3 has seen it move up to fifth place. The newly announced Honor View40…

A 9-to-5 job in an air-conditioned space with a stable income is apparently rather unappealing to many young Vietnamese, who prefer manual jobs like delivering goods or being a motorbike taxi driver, which gives them more freedom and a bigger payday. Trần Tuấn Tú, who was born in 1990, recently quit his job as an office worker in Cầu Giấy District in Hà Nội to join the community of Grab riders around town. His means of living is now his old Wave Alpha. A working day normally begins at 8 or 9 am, or whenever he turns on the Grab…

An FPT Shop laptop centre in Hà Nội. — VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — FPT Shop opened 30 laptop centres across the country on Friday. The COVID-19 pandemic made a large number of consumers buy laptops to work from home, resulting in growth of 20-30 per cent of the whole sector last year, according to Nguyễn Thế Kha, Senior Director Mobility Groups of FPT Shop. For FPT Shop, the laptop segment alone achieved 60 per cent growth, not only thanks to the sales of traditional products but also high-end segment, such as gaming laptops, which saw a three-fold increase…

What’s more important in a new smartphone – the chipset or the camera? The vivo X60 Pro + responds to “two” by bringing the Snapdragon 888 and a fully equipped quad camera to market. Which markets? Well, China obviously, but the company has started its expansion in Europe and has even become the official supplier of smartphones for the UEFA Euro 2020 and 2024 championships. India has also been a traditional stronghold for vivo. That said, we haven’t heard official plans from vivo for its new flagship overseas. But let’s dream a little – if / when the X60 Pro…

  The profit growth of banks this year is forecast at about 10 per cent against 20-25 per cent in recent years mainly due to the requirement to make provisions on COVID-19 affected loans. Photo zing.vn HÀ NỘI — Banks will have to set aside money for potentially unrecoverable COVID-19 affected loans from this year, according to an amended circular drafted by the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV). Last year, the central bank issued Circular 01/2020/TT-NHNN, allowing banks to avoid making the provisions in 2020 to support banks and borrowers affected by the pandemic. According to SBV deputy governor Đào Minh Tú, the…