Vietnam’s only one USD billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong retains the top spot, while Doan Nguyen Duc of Hoang Anh Gia Lai slipped to the third position, giving the second spot to the boss of Hoa Phat Group, Tran Dinh Long.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The names of the five richest people on the stock market of Vietnam in 2015 have been identified.

According to Forbes, as of November 16, 2015, Southeast Asia had a total of 70 people with assets of $1 billion or more. Vietnam has a sole representative Pham Nhat Vuong, Chairman of the Vingroup, with assets estimated at $1.8 billion.

 VietNamNet Bridge - As at September 30 this year, total assets of Vingroup reached VND125,934 billion, equivalent to $5.7 billion, up 39% compared to the end of 2014, according to Vingroup latest financial report, released on November 14.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The following tycoons started their business in Eastern Europe and had great achievements there, but they returned home to contribute to build the country's economy.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Holding the most important posts in Vingroup, the family of Pham Nhat Vuong is currently the richest on the Vietnam Stock Exchange.

VietNamNet Bridge – The $1.7 billion in assets owned by Pham Nhat Vuong, Vietnam’s richest billionaire, would be enough money to build four Gia Lai Myanmar Centers,  and buy 61 next-generation helicopters and the e-commerce Lazada system.

 Vietnam’s richest person, real estate magnate Pham Nhat Vuong, got even richer this year and made the Forbes Magazine world’s list of top billionaires for the third consecutive year in a row.

VietNamNet Bridge – Official statistics show that Vietnam has two dollar billionaires and hundreds of super-rich, but the actual figure is believed to be higher if it includes the hidden billionaires.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Pham Nhat Vuong (the first Vietnamese dollar billionaire named by Forbes in 2013), Doan Nguyen Duc and Tran Dinh Long all cemented their top positions on the list of 100 Vietnamese richest stock millionaires for 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Nikkei Asian Review recently selected the Top 100 largest enterprises in ASEAN, including five Vietnamese companies. Who are the bosses of these firms?

 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.

 VietNamNet Bridge - After Mr. Pham Nhat Vuong, the following names are said to be the most outstanding candidates for the second dollar billionaire of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has no lack of fabulously wealthy individuals. Some came by their fortunes the easy way – through inheritance. But far more fascinating are the self-made ones.

Vingroup’s President Pham Nhat Vuong, has for the fourth consecutive year, topped the 2013 list of the 100 richest stock millionaires with the stock assets worth VND19.924 trillion, which makes him 14 percent richer than the last year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Only several out of the 195 super rich Vietnamese men whose total assets have reached $20 billion have shown their faces, while the other 195 men’s names remain in the darkness.

“I like sipping my happiness quietly by myself,” has become the well-known words of Pham Nhat Vuong, the only Vietnamese businessman named in the Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires.

Thirty years after the doi moi (renovation) was kicked off, Vietnam has had a billionaire recognized in the world. Who would be the second billionaire?

Pham Nhat Vuong has become the first Vietnamese billionaire to enter the list of world’s richest individuals, with total assets of US$1.5 billion  as estimated in March 2013.