VietNamNet Bridge - While thousands of businesses have had to struggle to survive the recession, many businesses have been prospering. With VND100 in capital, they can make VND110 in net profit. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Many Vietnamese businessmen are well known in the country not only because they have trillions of dong worth of assets, but also because they are brothers as well as billionaires.

VietNamNet Bridge - What is the future for Vietnamese goods when foreign goods, following foreign retailers’ steps, penetrate the Vietnamese market?

VietNamNet Bridge - English will be a compulsory subject for third grades and above from 2018. This means that primary schools only have two more years to prepare teachers of English.

VietNamNet Bridge - The positions of CEOs of many multinational groups are being held by Vietnamese as the business employ strategies to localize staff.

VietNamNet Bridge – Domestic and foreign investors alike have been keenly monitoring opportunities for M&As in Vietnam's real estate market.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese fragrant rice exports have been increasing rapidly, but the export value remain modest.

VietNamNet Bridge - Three groups of enterprises will be under pressure once the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) takes effect, according to lawyer Tran Huu Huynh, chair of the Vietnam Arbitration Center.

For Vietnamese people in general and Vietnamese businessmen in particular, the Year of a Goat finished on February 7, 2016. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The 2016 White Book with Vietnam economic updates released by Vietnam Report showed that Vietnam gained an impressive recovery in 2015, while the business circle remains optimistic about 2016.

In 2015, the national high school finals, the first 2-in-1 national exam was organized in Vietnam instead of two separate ones – high school finals and university entrance exam – as part of education reform in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam wants to drive the capital flow from kieu hoi, or overseas remittance, into production and business, rather than spending. 

 The Vietnamese property market is entering 2016 after witnessing recoveries of firms in 2015, driven by macroeconomic improvements and policies of openness.

VietNamNet Bridge - The warming up of the domestic real estate market has helped many real estate developers jump up at the top of the list of stock millionaires. However, many of them have seen their stock assets decline.

VietNamNet Bridge - International experts believe Vietnam and Cambodia are highly desired destination points for real estate investors. There are still many attractive opportunities in emerging markets, despite the economic slowdown worldwide.

VietNamNet Bridge - There is no reliable answer to the question about whether the real estate market has warmed up, because different information sources show different situations.

VietNamNet Bridge - Enjoying a boom in 2006-2007, then witnessing a decline in the following years, the resort real estate market has heated up again, especially in Phu Quoc, Nha Trang and Ba Ria – Vung Tau.

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite recent signs of recovery, the real estate market in HCMC is still facing risks such as an unclear development orientation, a lack of transparent market information and an imbalance between supply and demand.

The land rent in industrial zones (IZs) has been increasing, while offices and apartments are believed to escalate soon. The real estate has heated up on the good news about TPP and other free trade agreements (FTAs).

VietNamNet Bridge - Land plots for cultivation are now in hot demand by investors, who can make profits now and protect their assets in the long term.