VietNamNet Bridge - More and more investors have injected money into agriculture, even though the sector is believed to have many latent risks.

VietNamNet Bridge - Real estate developers are seeking land plots in the suburbs, especially in areas with good infrastructure development, as available space in the inner city is diminishing. 

VietNamNet Bridge - By developing transport infrastructure projects under the mode of BT (build, transfer), investors are willing to pour capital into projects if there are reasonable policies. 

Vietnam has over 200 super-rich people who have $30 million and more. The figure is lower than that of Singapore (2,170), Indonesia (1,950) and Thailand (1,250).

It is necessary to create a market where privately run conglomerates will play the pivotal role. This must be associated with a system of policies which encourage the development of the private economic sector. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The long-term demand of the market has prompted large corporations to spend trillions of dong making food, although 2017 is expected to be a tough year.

VietNamNet Bridge - In the last 10 years, Vietnam has seen the establishment of private joint stock companies operating in many different business fields.

Big companies in steel, real estate and securities sectors have announced investments in agriculture projects, but they remain quiet about their profits from the projects.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has been witnessing a new wave of investments in hospitals since 2015 after the government called for different sources of funding in the healthcare sector.

VietNamNet Bridge - The ongoing patient overload at state-owned hospitals and the $2 billion that Vietnamese spend on overseas healthcare services are drawing more investors to hospital projects. 

Vingroup, owned by Pham Nhat Vuong, and Vietjet, owned by Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, two dollar billionaires on Forbes’ 2017 list of the world’s billionaires, had good business performances in 2016. 

Quang Binh, the land in Vietnam’s central region, is expected to have a new life as it has become the homeland of Kong and the area where many big real estate groups have landed. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Vingroup, Novaland, FLC and SunGroup are expected to continue to lead the property market in 2017. They are all big players in the real estate market, but each of them follows its own way.

VietNamNet Bridge - The 500 richest Vietnamese stock billionaires as of December 31, 2016 had held VND167.362 trillion worth of stock assets, or $7 billion. Forty five of them are from Hanoi, holding 27.3 percent of total assets.

VietNamNet Bridge - The low-cost real estate market has become more competitive with big property companies that usually specialize in developing high-end products.

The investment boom on Phu Quoc Island, with the appearance of the biggest real estate developers, from Vingroup and Sungroup to BIM and CEO, has caused land prices to escalate daily.

VietNamNet Bridge - Big money has been poured into amusement parks in famous tourism sites, with many  projects capitalized at trillions of dong already completed or under construction.

VietNamNet Bridge - After closing some of its department stores in Hanoi within a two-year period, Parkson, a retail giant from Malaysia, has officially decided to leave the capital.

VietNamNet Bridge - Holding key positions in major enterprises, the most powerful women in the Vietnamese stock market hold huge assets. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The 10 richest Vietnamese business people recognized by the media 10 years ago are no longer found in the top 10 list of stock millionaires.