Hanoi, Sept. 22 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has pressed for answers on why apartment prices remain persistently high and ordered clarification on whether real estate market manipulation, including hoarding, price rigging, and speculative practices, has occurred. PM Chinh, who is also head of the Central Steering Committee on the Housing Policy and Real Estate Market, chaired the committee's first session in Hanoi on September 22 to review the sector's performance over the first nine months of this year. The hybrid meeting linked online with 34 provinces and cities, setting the tone for what's next through year-end. Real estate, he said, is the engine revving Vietnam's economy and urban growth, pumping cash into construction, finance...