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Hanoi motorbike tour and Hoi An cooking class have been selected by readers of US travel site Tripadvisor as two of the 25 best travel experiences in Asia. The Hanoi motorbike tour takes more than four hours. (Photo: Tripadvisor) The half-day guided motorbike tour in Hanoi allows tourists to explore Vietnam’s capital city’s famous landmarks like Long Bien Bridge, Hai Ba Trung Temple, the Presidential Palace Historical Site and try some of the city's best street foods. As part of the tour, visitors will have an opportunity to explore "Train Street", formed by railway tracks running alongside Dien Bien Phu and Phung Hung streets in the heart of Hanoi's Old Quarter, with residential buildings just a few feet away on either side. Meanwhile, the five-hour cooking class, organised by Hoi An Eco Tours Discovery, is considered a fun and interesting way to experience the rural life in Hoi An, a popular tourist destination in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam … [Read more...] about Hanoi motorbike tour, Hoi An cooking class among top travel experiences in Asia

Tea products of Yen Bai province's Suoi Giang Cooperatives are on sale on Alibaba e-commerce platform . (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - E-commerce is widely considered an effective and sustainable solution to help cooperatives improve their competitiveness, and boost production and exports, but the number of cooperatives that have gone online remains modest, prompting the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) to support them in this regard. According to Nguyen Ngoc Bao, VCA president, the application of e-commerce plays an important role in the success of cooperatives, creating competitiveness in the market economy . He cited the fact that Suoi Giang Cooperative in Yen Bai province signed a contract worth up to 2 billion VND (nearly 86,500 USD) to export tea to Japan through Alibaba as an example. There are about 26,900 online stores in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The number of Facebook users is estimated at 22.5 million in rural areas and 23.5 million in urban areas. This … [Read more...] about Cooperatives receive support to adopt e-commerce

Vietnam has seen rapid growth in e-commerce in recent years, and demand for logistics services is growing commensurately. (Photo courtesy of J&T Express) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The rapid growth in e-commerce is driving an unprecedented increase in demand for logistics services, including express delivery services, according to industry insiders. In its E-commerce White Book 2021, the Vietnam E-Commerce and Digital Economy Agency said Vietnam has the highest number of people shopping on e-commerce platforms in the Southeast Asia region at some 49.3 million. In the last two years, the country has seen both consumers and firms moving online, it said. Nguyen Ngoc Dung, president of the Vietnam E-commerce Association, said there has been a boom in e-commerce since the pandemic began. More than 70% of the population have access to the internet and nearly 50% shop online, he said. The online shopping boom has offered opportunities as well as challenges to the logistics … [Read more...] about Explosive e-commerce growth drives demand for logistics

During this month, payment systems were the most common phishing cases detected by Kaspersky, representing 11.77 percent of all phishing and over 44 percent of financial phishing. The increase in online transactions in Vietnam during the pandemic has facilitated the proliferation of phishing with pages impersonating popular payment systems such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and more. The percentages are from anonymised data based on the triggering of the deterministic component in the Kaspersky’s Anti-Phishing system on user computers. The component detects all pages with phishing content that the user has tried to open by following a link in an e-mail message or on the web, as long as links to these pages are present in the Kaspersky database. As more and more users shop online, phishing attempts targeting e-shops also increase, accounting for 30 percent of financial phishing cases. Bank-related phishing, with the example below showing pages impersonating Vietcombank, … [Read more...] about A quarter of phishing attempts in Vietnam last April are financial-related

Mindset change coming from the top at BAEMIN Some argue that the proliferation of online shopping and food ordering services has increased the demand for single-use plastic. How big a problem is this? Plastic waste is definitely among the most pressing issues that the food tech industry needs to find solutions for, besides food waste and increased carbon footprint. While people usually mention plastic waste only, I think it’s equally important to factor in other aspects of environmental challenges in the food technology industry that we face so we can come up with more solutions. Since 2020 in many parts of the world, the use of single-use and disposable food packaging has increased as some believe it to be safer and more hygienic. Users, although becoming more environmentally conscious, seldom consider using leftovers for future meals or reusing meal boxes, plastic bags, or disposable cutlery. To renovate ourselves, we need to find a better solution because packaging … [Read more...] about Mindset change coming from the top at BAEMIN

Small traders in some traditional markets in Ho Chi Minh City said that the month of promotion has contributed to increasing sales and attracting more customers. In addition, thanks to promoting sales through social networks such as Zalo, Facebook, and Viber, small businesses also retain regular customers and find more new customers. While taking pictures, recording videos, and listening to the phone of old customers in faraway provinces, Phuong Trang, a small trader at An Dong Market in District 5, shared that after the epidemic, there has been a sharp increase in customers placing online orders. In response to Ho Chi Minh City's promotion month, she has reduced the price of clothes by about 10 percent for both direct and online buyers. In addition, the store also bundles goods and offers a low price for customers. For example, before she earned VND15,000- VND20,000 as a profit, now she accepted a profit of VND5,000-VND10,000 for selling a shirt. Similarly, at the Binh Tay … [Read more...] about Sales inch up thanks to promotion

A type of cashless payment (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has been brought under control, and life for most people returned to normal. However, non-cash payments , encouraged during the pandemic to limit contact, have become popular among many people. The pandemic accelerated this payment form towards a cashless society as oriented by the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV). According to a survey recently conducted by digital payment giant VISA, 65% of Vietnamese are carrying less cash in their wallets and one-third say they will stop using cash after the pandemic. Almost 76% of the consumers now use mobile wallets and even more (82%) use cards. VISA also pointed out that online shopping and cash alternatives are all likely to stay on after the pandemic. Two-thirds of Vietnamese tried shopping online during the pandemic and half of them made their first purchase through social networks. Nine out of 10 consumers are now using home … [Read more...] about Cashless payments still booming after pandemic

MARKET OF BEAUTY: Đông Ba Market is a large trading centre imbued with the tradition of the ancient capital Huế. Photo from the market's Facebook page Mai Trang Linh Returning to the central province of Thừa Thiên Huế after more than two years of lockdown due to the pandemic, Lưu Hoàng Long and his wife, a Vietnamese Australian, chose first to visit Đông Ba Market, the biggest traditional local shopping centre in the ancient royal city of Huế. The couple and a group of overseas Vietnamese who started their trip through the country early this month from their native home in the northern coastal city of Hải Phòng could not help but be surprised at the changes in the market. Besides the usual crowded and busy atmosphere and familiar hospitality of sellers, the visitors were amazed at the changes, particularly the trade promotion programmes for traditional handicrafts -- one of the most attractions of the market. Looking at the pop-up booths displaying different kinds … [Read more...] about Huế’s Đông Ba Market revamped to lure tourists

Tokopedia is a combination of Toko (shop) and encyclopedia. It adopts a similar business model as e-commerce giant Alibaba. Tokopedia is a shopping platform where every business can easily arrange and sell its products. As of June 2020, Tokopedia recorded a valuation of up to $7 billion and became the third-largest unicorn in Southeast Asia, trailing behind Grab (Singapore) and GoJek (Indonesia), according to CB Insights. Tokopedia is successful in bringing technologies into grocery stores in Indonesia In 2018, Tokopedia unveiled its ambitious plan to penetrate Indonesia’s economy worth $1 trillion, which is the largest economy in Southeast Asia. It launched Mitra Tokopedia for the owners of warung (a small family-owned business) or outdoor grocery stalls serving their neighbourhoods. Mitra Tokopedia has recorded one million downloads with 2 million warung in the island nation. Mitra Tokopedia not only connects grocery owners with suppliers but also removes … [Read more...] about VinShop set to become Vietnam’s next unicorn

Spy cameras are listed in Article 6 in Decree No.66/2017/ND-CP of the Government on conditions for trading camouflage equipment and software used for audio recording, video recording and positioning as equipment purchased with conditions. In the reality, however, it is extremely easy to get one from the market. At a technological device store on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street in District 3 of Ho Chi Minh City, the salesman introduced different kinds of spy cameras that can be directly installed on power sockets, desk clocks, TV remote control to retrieve data via a Wi-Fi or 3G network. Their prices range from VND1-2.5 million (US$43-108). There is no condition to purchase one. It is also tremendously easy to obtain one from the social network, with the prices ranging from VND800,000-2 million ($34-86). These are freely sold online only and will be delivered to buyers via a shipping service. The police so far have solved many cases of criminals using sensitive clips to blackmail … [Read more...] about Ease of spy camera purchasing posing great danger