Only a few shabby plastic tables and chairs are needed to enjoy a crab noodle shop in Tho Xuong alley, diners can also have fun while dodging cars, the ‘bun rieu’ has been featured on CNN World.

The automobile market has become bustling again after the Government cut by 50% the vehicle registration tax.

Most foreign invested enterprises have reopened their factories after lockdown and are optimistic about business performance for the last months of the year.

The bailout in 2008-2009 pushed the national economy to a high inflation rate in following years, once climbing to 18%.

Nearly two months have passed since Ho Chi Minh City and 18 southern provinces have lifted lockdown measures and set up the "new normal", with the operations of people and enterprises gradually resuming.

Hu tieu (noodle soup), milk tea, broken rice, snails and fried fish balls – the common dishes of Vietnamese – are being sold at shops on HCM City’s Bui Vien Street.

Land prices in Hanoi stayed at high price levels in the third quarter, while they decreased slightly by 5-7% in some projects in Ho Chi Minh City, according to Ministry of Construction’s (MOC) real estate bulletin on the third quarter.

E-commerce platforms have launched sale promotion programs for Single’s Day November 11, the biggest shopping event of the year, promising big sales on millions of items.

China is no longer an easy market and if Vietnamese businesses don’t change their business strategies, it will be more difficult to enter the huge market.

The structure of Vietnam's rice for exports has shifted towards increasing the proportion of high-value-added rice varieties and reducing the rate of low-grade rice products.