VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Construction's proposal to further loosen regulations on foreigners' rights to buy houses in Viet Nam was expected to heat up the prolonged frozen property market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The movement of doing morning exercise has become so common in Hanoi, attracting foreigners every morning on the Hoan Kiem lakeside with tai chi and laughter yoga exercises.

The Ministry of Construction has proposed the government to allow all the foreigners, who have the visas to stay in Vietnam for 3 months or more, to buy houses in Vietnam. No limitation in the number of houses on the subjects would be set.

Last week HCM City police caught in the act four foreigners with prostitutes at a beauty salon in Tan Binh District, HCM City, from which they have detected a prostitution network serving foreigners only.

HCM City police have discovered a prostitution ring for foreign visitors which is based in the center of District 1. On June 17, the police summoned 53 people involved in this ring for investigation and nine of them were taken into custody.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five days after the capital city agreed to grant certificates of land-use rights and house ownership to overseas Vietnamese and foreign home buyers, there have been no signs that anyone is interested.

A lot of expats in Vietnam have affirmed they will spend millions of dollars to buy houses here.

VietNamNet Bridge - “I have been living in Vietnam for three years but I can’t get used to the way Vietnamese people eating beside sewers,” says Alain, a Spanish who is working for a non-governmental organization in Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge – Foreign-invested enterprises have been dominating the soap powder market, putting domestic manufacturers at a disadvantage.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Christmas is now less than a week away, and festive fever is taking over Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Although foreign buying value hit an eight-month high in November, securities enterprises said that the investors have yet to come back to the local market given risk concerns.