Author: Peter Carlisle

Vietnam’s property prices rising strongly Nominal house prices up 20.9% in HCMC, 4.8% in Hanoi during the year to Q1 2020 In Ho Chi Minh City, apartment prices surged 20.9% in Q1 2020 from a year earlier, to an average of US$2,452 per sq. m, according to Jones Lang La Salle Vietnam. Likewise in Hanoi, […]

Vietnam opens five-star Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake hotel, world’s first gold-plated hotel It has been months since many have travelled following the devastating effects of the coronavirus. But that has not stopped a Vietnam hotel from launching the world’s first gold-plated hotel. The five-star Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake hotel, owned by Hoa Binh Group and […]

The next steps for Vietnam’s booming solar sector THANG NAM DO, PAUL BURKE Vietnam is showing promising early signs of emerging as a major solar producer, Thang Nam Do and Paul Burke write. 2019 was a bumper year for Vietnam’s solar sector. The country overtook Thailand to have Southeast Asia’s largest installed capacity of solar […]

Chinese experts resume delayed work on Vietnam’s Hanoi metro line After undergoing a 14-day quarantine period to prevent Covid-19 before entering Vietnam, a group of 23 Chinese experts has begun to work on the long-delayed Cat Linh – Ha Dong urban railway in Hanoi. SEE ALSO: Vietnam’s HCMC Saigon Metro Faces Delay As Experts Unable […]

Vietnam’s HCM City to develop hi-rises along metro line HCM City plans to stop construction of high-rise apartment buildings in downtown areas and focus instead on building such residential complexes along the first metro route in the eastern part of the city comprising districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức. Under a new proposal for 2021-30 […]