More than 40 diamond businesses temporarily closed in Ho Chi Minh City
Recorded on specialized business routes such as An Duong Vuong, Nguyen Trai, Le Thanh Ton, besides stores that are still open, many establishments continue to close or temporarily suspend business.
Some places have not determined when they will resume operations, while stores are mainly operating on a small scale, with quite few customers.
Talking to Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Nguyen Van Dung - Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Gem and Jewelry Association said: "According to the association's survey, so far more than 40 businesses have temporarily closed down. However, these are only data recorded at the time of the survey. Businesses said they will continue to reopen business, but the specific time has not been determined.
According to Mr. Dung, the group of businesses with large-scale trading, a large number of customers, are more clearly affected and worried, while small-scale stores are less affected and still maintain transactions. The fact that the number of businesses temporarily stops increasing shows that the Ho Chi Minh City diamond market is still significantly affected, when some large units choose to temporarily close down to wait for the situation to stabilize. See more...
Nghe An requests gold trading enterprises to sign commitments to comply with regulations
Nghe An is strengthening the management of gold business activities in the direction of combining propaganda, signing commitments and post-inspection. Gold, precious metals, and gemstone business establishments are required to ensure the origin of goods, quality, listing and selling at listed prices, not speculating, hoarding goods, trade fraud or doing business against regulations in the digital environment.
The content of propaganda also focuses on preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
After signing the commitment, the Market Management force continues to monitor and handle cases of intentional violations. Management work is expanded from direct inspection at stores to electronic invoices, transactions through accounts and business activities in the digital environment, in order to control the entire process from origin, price, quality to payment and taxes. See more...
Lao Cai reviews mineral projects, thoroughly resolves bottlenecks
At the conference to remove difficulties for businesses exploiting and processing copper, iron and apatite minerals, the Provincial People's Committee informed that the whole province currently has 10 iron ore processing plants with a total designed capacity of about 4.96 million tons/year, but only 2 plants are operating, with a capacity of about 300,000 tons/year.
Meanwhile, 18 chemical and mineral processing plants have a large demand for raw materials, posing a risk of production disruption due to ore shortages.
One of the major bottlenecks is land procedures when many projects have not been allocated land or have only been allocated a part of the area. In addition, businesses also face difficulties in mineral planning, exploration, conversion of forest use purposes, mining - processing technology, raw materials, transportation costs and energy. See more...
Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi airfares increase more than 1.5 times during Big Bang concert
After the group Big Bang confirmed the concert in Hanoi on October 24-25, 2026, Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi airfares increased sharply, causing many fans to regret they were hesitant to book tickets early.
Some people said that the one-way ticket price has now exceeded 2-3 million VND, while before it was only about 1-1.9 million VND. Many people with concert experience also believe that the closer to the event date, the harder it is for ticket prices to decrease.
To save costs, fans are looking for many alternatives such as flying to Hai Phong and then taking a train or limousine to Hanoi. According to a survey by Lao Dong on August 9-10, the price of some Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi flights on October 23 increased from nearly 1 million to more than 1.3 million VND in just one day.
For example, some Vietjet Air flights increased from 2.35 million VND to 3.23-3.73 million VND; Vietnam Airlines flights suggested by Agoda had prices increased from 2.09 million VND to 3.29 million VND. See more...
