Being the godfather to most of the famously decent football players who won the silver medal in AFC U-23 Championships early this year, Do Quang Hien, Chairman of T&T Group, revealed his aspirations in building a soccer culture of dedication and dignity as well as T&T Group's vision.
Vietnamese people’s friendliness and tourist safety are the highlighted advantages to develop tourism in Hanoi’s hinterland, according to Amorn Harnkham, regional director of Thailand International College of Hospitality Education.
The race to become Vietnam Football Federation's vice president of finance, who holds the future of Vietnam’s football in hand, is becoming tougher than ever with many viable candidates.
A big challenge is how to mobilize the large investment requirements, estimated at around $8 billion annually to meet fast growing power demand, according to country director of World Bank in Vietnam Ousmane Dione.
The world-leading coffee brand does not need to change to blend in with the Vietnamese culture because customers want the same Starbucks taste at any place of the world, according to General Manager of Starbucks Vietnam Patricia Marques.
Despite the great demand, resort tourism in the outskirts of Hanoi is still developing in a scattered manner.
The uncertainty of the economy in the changing trends, the impacts of the US-China trade war and the infrastructure in need of upgrading are the main challenges that Vietnam has to face in 2019.
While many enterprises are excited by the shifting wave of investment to Vietnam as the US-China trade war intensifies, Dr Mai Huu Tin, U&I Group President warned that Vietnam might just be a stopgap.
There are three reasons why economist Vu Thanh Tu Anh was pessimistic about Vietnam’s economic outlook in 2019: the declining global economy, the unpredictable impacts of the US-China trade war on Vietnam, and Vietnam’s complicated socio-economic issues.
If inequality was not increasing, Vietnam’s poverty reduction record would be even better, according to the leading international non-governmental organization Oxfam.
