Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has nearly doubled his 2017 earnings, making $119m (£92m) in the past 12 months, according to Forbes highest paid actor list.

VietNamNet Bridge - Among the 30 names listed in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs and innovators, Phan Hoang Lan has drawn special attention because she is a civil servant.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government needs to continue its efforts to reform the business environment in order to have more billionaires, experts say. 

VietNamNet Bridge - In the past, nearly all wealthy Vietnamese were real estate developers, but now two industry billionaires have appeared on Forbes’ list of billionaires.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese businesspeople are getting rich quickly and have jumped into higher positions on the lists of the wealthiest people in the world. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The list of the top richest millionaires in the stock market changes regularly because of changes in business ownership, falls in share prices and slumping business.

VietNamNet Bridge - Forbes has recognized two Vietnamese dollar billionaires, while Knight Frank’s 2016 report says Vietnam has 14,300 millionaires with assets of over $1 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - Experts hope that Vietnam's dollar billionaires will spur the development of several business fields and open new value chains.

Warning about the wave of millionaire emigration, economists say that millionaires are taking foreign currencies abroad, creating problems for Vietnam to control the foreign currency outflow.

 Golfers Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and former NBA player Michael Jordan are among the 20 wealthiest American celebrities, Forbes reported on Wednesday.

VietNamNet Bridge - Travel writer of Forbes, Laura Begley Bloom has interviewed 14 travel experts to pick 30 most affordable destinations to visit next year, including Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Securities assets of billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong have exceeded VND30,400 billion ($1.36 billion), as he turns 48 years old.

 VietNamNet Bridge – On the occasion of  International Women’s Day (March 8), Forbes magazine has released the list of 20 most influential women in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Nhat Vuong, the head of Vingroup, is Vietnam's richest man, included on Forbes’ billionaire list for the third consecutive year. However, his position fell by 26 spots from 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge - This year's Forbes list includes the female leaders of two leading dairy companies of Vietnam: Mai Kieu Lien, chairman and CEO of Vinamilk, and Thai Huong, chair of TH Group.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Gas Corporation (PetroVietnam Gas) and the Vietnam Industrial and Commercial Bank (VietinBank) are Vietnamese’s two representatives of the top 2,000 largest enterprises in the world this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Renowned US business magazine Forbes has announced the list of the year’s top 50 businesswomen in Asia, including three Vietnamese.

They are the leading brains who not only have influences to their businesses’ development, but also to the development of the country and the regional economies.

Vietinbank, which ranks the 1,764th in the Forbes Global 2000 hopes it can get in-grade promotion, while other Vietnamese businesses hope their names would enter the list one day.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Forbes Magazine has published the Forbes Global 2000 list of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. Vietinbank ranks 1,764th. In terms of profitability, the Vietnamese bank ranks 1,682th and 874th for property.