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Vietnam’s VinFast quick to make an impression on the global car market
Vietnam’s VinFast, a homegrown car manufacturer founded in 2017 as part of the country’s diversified industrial conglomerate...
Vietnam’s small street shops go digital
Starting with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s small family-run street shops are now getting a...
Vietnam gets 3,000 electric buses to reduce traffic emissions and noise
A new non-profit bus service will bring at least 3,000 new electric buses to Vietnamese roads next...
LG moves phone production to Vietnam, shuts down South Korea factory
South Korean electronics maker LG Electronics said on April
25 it would move its smartphone production from South...
Hanoi kicks off construction of Formula One race track
Vietnam on Wednesday on March 20 started construction of a race circuit in the capital Hanoi where...
Vietnam corporations line up to start business with North Korea when sanctions fall
Companies from Vietnam are eager to be among the first to do business with and in North Korea should international sanctions be lifted, positioning...
Vietnam overtook Singapore in IPO volume this year
Vietnam in 2018 topped Southeast Asia’s top grossing market for initial public offerings (IPOs) with total proceeds of $2.6 billion.
Singapore, who lost its crown...
Vietnam’s Vingroup to launch its own smartphone brand
Vingroup, Vietnam’ biggest listed firm by market value and a conglomerate with businesses that range from real estate to retail to tourism to automotive,...
Vietnam’s new car maker debuts with two models at Paris Motor Show
VinFast, Vietnam’s new home-grown car manufacturer and a subsidiary of Vietnamese industry conglomerate VinGroup, unveiled its first two passenger vehicles, a saloon and an...
First glimpse into how Vietnam’s home-grown cars will look like
Vietnam is set to build up its own car industry, and it seems to have quite some good-looking designs in mind. Vinfast, the new...
Vietnam to produce homegrown cars under VinFast brand
Vietnam's property conglomerate Vingroup has launched a new division called VinFast which is set to become the nation's first home-grown car maker. Vingroup announced...
Hanoi to spend $40 billion on New Metro Lines
The metropolitan administration of Vietnam's capital Hanoi proposed to the government to build new metro lines at an investment of $40 billion up to...
Vingroup bond prices capital fairly
Vingroup (ex-Vincom)’s dollar junk bond yielding 11.875 per cent on issuance late October 2013 illustrates a Vietnamese corporate paying a reasonable cost of capital....
Millionaire population surges in communist Vietnam
The number of extremely wealthy individuals in Vietnam has grown 14.7 per cent in 2013 over 2012, the second fastest growth rate in Southeast...
Vietnam equity too hot?
At first glance, private equity investors’ fascination with Vietnam makes no sense. Yet, in the fluid reality that global capital markets thrive, Vietnam’s brand of slow restructuring is just the kind of environment speculative investors draw beelines to.
More private equity flows into Vietnam
Warburg Pincus, a New York-based private equity group, will lead a consortium to invest around $325 million in Vietnam’s Vingroup, a conglomerate owned by...
Vietnam millionaires banking on property
Vietnamese government statistics have revealed that nearly one third of the country’s 30 US-dollar millionaires derive their wealth from stakes in the real estate...
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Vietnam’s smartphone exports reach more than $51 billion in 2020
Vietnam, a major assembler of smartphones for global brands, has reached an export value of phones and...
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