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Two dollar billionaires: does Vietnam need more?

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

How many Vietnamese millionaires have emigrated?

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.

How much do members of the online community earn?

VietNamNet Bridge - A new class of young rich people, born in the 1980s and 1990s, are earning billions of dong a month from the internet.

Businesspeople whose Facebook pages get thousands of likes

Khai Silk, Le Hoai Anh and Trinh Van Quyet are businesspeople whose Facebook pages have up to hundreds of thousands of followers. However, they mostly share views on topics related to life rather than their business.

Where were the richest Vietnamese born?

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.

Who was best at making money in 2016?

VietNamNet Bridge - The best moneymakers in Vietnam saw their assets in business and investment activities in 2016 increase to very high levels.

How the stock market creates a super-rich class

In order to be listed among top 10 stock billionaires by December 21, 2016, an individual must have stock assets of at least VND2.2 trillion, a figure higher than the total assets of many listed companies.

Vietnam's stock market events in 2016

VietNamNet Bridge - The stock market was affected by the news about sharp oil price falls and Brexit, but the influence did not last a long time.

New VND billionaires emerge on the market

VietNamNet Bridge - While some tycoons have seen huge assets evaporate and others have been sent to prison, a lot of new faces have appeared on the scene. The pockets of the upstarts are believed to be full of trillions of VND.

Agriculture abandoned by Vietnamese entrepreneurs

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has great advantages for agricultural production, but in the last 10 years, domestic enterprises have been focusing on the services sector and abandoning the field.

Billionaires pour money into agriculture

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese billionaires earn money from many different business sectors. However, many are investing in agriculture. 

Big companies reward talented CEOs with millions of shares

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese business owners are willing to pay millions of dollars to managing directors who can bring fat profits to business.

The world’s billionaires in Vietnamese real estate market

VietNamNet Bridge - Many real estate billionaires around the world have, directly or indirectly, invested in Vietnam since 2006. 

Why are branded-goods tycoons and real estate developers attracted to Phu Quoc Island?

VietNamNet Bridge - The plan to develop a Phu Quoc Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has prompted investors to pour money into Phu Quoc Airport.

Vietnam runs fastest in the super-rich race

VietNamNet Bridge - The rapid increase in the number of Vietnamese dollar billionaires has caused concern rather than joy.

The billionaire who wants to acquire Phu Quoc Airport

Do Quang Hien’s T&T Group appears to be the leading candidate for the new developer of Phu Quoc Airport, thanks to the company’s huge assets and commitments.

Vietnamese businesspeople with odd hobbies

VietNamNet Bridge – They are rich and have odd hobbies which easily differentiate them from each other and from ordinary folk.

Vietnam has two USD billionaires, 208 millionaires

 VietNamNet Bridge - Wealth-X and the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) have published a report on people in the world in 2014 with assets of at least over $30 million. Vietnam has 210 representatives with total assets of $20 billion.

How do the Vietnamese get rich?

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new class of Vietnamese with total assets of at least one million dollars emerged over the last 30 years.

US dollar millionaires to “explode” in Vietnam in ten years

 VietNamNet Bridge - With a 166% growth forecast, in 2023 Vietnam will have 293 US dollar millionaires compared to the "modest" figure of 110 in 2013.