The Hanoitimes - AEON set to double its goods imports from Vietnam to US$500 million by 2020, and US$1 billion by 2025, especially when Vietnam could potentially become a high quality food supplier to Japanese consumers. Japan's retailer AEON to help Vietnam export US$500 million in goods by 2020 Japan’s Taisho Group takes control of Vietnam’s DHG Pharmaceutical Japan investors' growing interest in Vietnam banks comes natural Vietnam stands above China as favorite business destination for Japanese firms Better business environment makes Japanese firms in Hanoi more efficient: JETRO Japan’s retailer group AEON plans to build a new shopping mall with investment capital of US$280 million in the south of downtown Hanoi, according to Yasutsugu Iwamura, CEO of AEON Japan and AEON Mall Vietnam. Prime Minister Nguyen xuan Phuc (r) and Yasutsugu Iwamura, CEO of AEON Japan and AEON Mall Vietnam (l). Source: VGP. AEON would step up its … [Read more...] about Japan’s AEON to build US$300-million shopping mall in Hanoi
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HCM City to build more pedestrian streets, upgrade downtown
The HCM City Department of Planning and Architecture and Spain's Idom Ingenieria Consultoria S.A. plan to work together to open more pedestrian streets and shopping malls in District 1. VNA/VNS Photo HCM CITY – The HCM City Department of Planning and Architecture and Spain's Idom Ingenieria Consultoria S.A. plan to work together to open more pedestrian streets and shopping malls in District 1. The department will open a pedestrian area on Lê Lợi Street (extending from the 23/9 Park to the HCM City Opera House), which will connect with Nguyễn Huệ pedestrian street. This pedestrian area will be near the metro station now under construction. Parts of Hàm Nghi and Tôn Đức Thắng streets are also expected to become pedestrian streets. In the first phase of the project, landscape design will revolve around the Opera House Park and include functional areas and more greenery. The department has suggested installing a … [Read more...] about HCM City to build more pedestrian streets, upgrade downtown
With farms atop malls, Singapore gets serious about food security
Comcrop’s 600-square-meter (6,450-square-foot) farm on the roof of one of the malls uses vertical racks and hydroponics to grow leafy greens and herbs such as basil and peppermint that it sells to nearby bars, restaurants and stores. The farm’s small size belies its big ambition: to help improve the city’s food security. Comcrop’s Allan Lim, who set up the rooftop farm five years ago, recently opened a 4,000-square-metre farm with a greenhouse on the edge of the city. He believes high-tech urban farms are the way ahead for the city, where more land cannot be cultivated. "Agriculture is not seen as a key sector in Singapore. But we import most of our food, so we are very vulnerable to sudden disruptions in supply," Lim said. "Land, natural resources and low-cost labor used to be the predominant way that countries achieved food security. But we can use technology to solve any deficiencies," he said. Singapore last year topped the Economist Intelligence … [Read more...] about With farms atop malls, Singapore gets serious about food security
Saigon shopping malls moving out of downtown: property consultancy
By Vu Le  October 15, 2018 | 03:13 pm GMT+7 Landmark 81 in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran Shopping malls are mushrooming outside HCMC’s central business district, a new report by Jones Lang LaSalle Vietnam says. The real estate service firm (JLL) said the most prominent example is Landmark 81 in Binh Thanh District, which opened in the third quarter with 46,000 square meters of retail space. The tallest building in Vietnam has retail outlets of many major international and domestic brands. This year there will be more new entrants in the non-CBD area such as Estella Place (District 2), Cong Hoa Garden (Tan Binh District) and TTC Plaza (Binh Thanh District). Retail space in the non-CBD area currently accounts for 80 percent of the total supply in the city and the ratio will remain to be on the rise in the coming time, JLL said. The current rental rate in the city retail market is $46.2 per square meter per month, down … [Read more...] about Saigon shopping malls moving out of downtown: property consultancy
Toronto mall evacuated after gunshots
OTTAWA — A fight between two groups of young men that culminated in shots being fired on Thursday prompted the evacuation of a mall in Toronto, a month after a mass shooting in the nation’s largest city left two dead. Police Superintendent Rob Johnson said the shooting took place on the east side of the gigantic Yorkdale Shopping Centre that is popular with locals. It began, he said, as an altercation between "two groups of males" with three or more on each side. "At least two shots" were fired by one person with a handgun, before fleeing. One person was taken away by paramedics in an ambulance, but police said it was "not as a direct result of the shots fired." A handful of others also suffered minor injuries as they rushed to the exits after the shots rang out, said Johnson. Television images showed scores of shoppers and retail clerks lining the sidewalks and parking lots outside the mall, which is one of the largest in Canada, in Toronto’s … [Read more...] about Toronto mall evacuated after gunshots