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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A crowded moon cake market has caused a drop in sales for many stalls ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival. The big day is on October 1 – the 15th day of the 8th month on the lunar calendar, but the moon cake market is still quiet. Popular moon cake brands like Kinh Do, Nhu Lan, Dong Khanh, Hanoi Confectionery and Thu Huong Bakery are traded on stalls in the most crowded areas in Hanoi and HCM City. Despite an increase in discounts and promotions, fewer people are shopping at moon cake stalls than last year. Nguyen Thi Huong, the owner of a moon cake stall on Pham Van Dong Street in HCM City’s Thu Duc District has struggled this year. “I have to use a 'buy 1 get 1' board to attract customers but some just stop to see the price list. Some still buy the products but they are much fewer than ever before," she said. Le Minh Tam, who runs a moon cake stall on An Duong Vuong Street, District 5, told Tin Tuc newspaper: … [Read more...] about Moon cake market competition heats up

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Despite having been in our social lives for less than two decades (Facebook in 2004, Twitter in 2006), social media platforms have rapidly transformed into a global phenomenon where they now serve as the primary medium of communication for billions of people. Once relatively harmless “public squares” where users can easily interact with one another, social media networks have grown into formidable platforms, giving their creators unprecedented supranational power – not just by gathering personal information and collecting trends and being able to sell this information for billions of dollars, but also by dominating, if not directly influencing, social trends through the power of advertisements and information selection. In many cases, this has become a significant matter in national politics for many countries. … [Read more...] about Social media – a revolution to be feared

Despite this, ROS closed at VND3,500, far below its VND12,600 IPO in 2016 and a high of VND178,000 in late 2017. The ticker has been plummeting since early 2018 as a result of increasingly poor business performance, and is now the smallest capped ticker on the VN30. … [Read more...] about VN-Index sees biggest foreign net sell in eight months

Sr. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Trong Nghia checks quality of several publications of Military Printing One Member Co., Ltd. No. 1 At these units, the mission checked their fire-fighting and fire prevention and reviewed the units’ task performance results from last year and heard missions and combat readiness plans laid out for this year. … [Read more...] about Units’ combat readiness checked