Leading hotels and resorts in HCM City, Phu Quoc, and Dalat have prepared numerous programs to serve couples on the upcoming Valentine’s Day.

Thanks to the sustainable recovery of agriculture and export, Vietnam is expected to achieve GDP growth of 6.4% this year, up from 6.2% in 2016, said Juliana Lee, senior economist at Deutsche Bank, at a recent meeting with the media. 

Times Square (Vietnam) Investment Joint Stock Company has expanded its restaurant portfolio by opening the Latin American restaurant ‘Salsa’ on Nguyen Hue Boulevard in District 1, HCMC.

Eager to offer new tourism products, improve the park’s attractiveness and contribute to promoting tourism in HCMC, Dam Sen Park will be hosting a great variety of entertainment events from Jan. 28 to Feb. 5. on the occasion of the Year of the Rooster 2017.

HCMC-based Anh Viet Tourist Company has asked the city government for permission to launch open-top buses to serve tourists wishing to take city tours.

The final round of Break the Floor, a contest to search for the best hip-hop dancers in Asia, will take place at Lan Anh Music Center in HCMC’s District 10 on February 25.

The Hotel Nikko Saigon will introduce its exclusive dining offerings during Tet holiday from January 27 to 31 at Ming Court, a Chinese restaurant on level 3 of the hotel.

The HCM City Department of Transport in the first quarter of this year will finish mapping out a plan to build bus-only lanes on some roads to improve public transit services.

Vietnam will step up the restructuring of the banking sector this year but this process will require certain regulations to be revised to create a favorable legal framework, the governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) said.

Vietnam’s insurance market registered robust growth last year with the life insurance segment gaining the strongest growth in 10 years, insurers and management agencies said.