As the richest Vietnamese person with total assets worth $8.1 billion, Pham Nhat Vuong only ranks ninth among the wealthiest billionaires in Southeast Asia, according to Forbes.

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) took delivery on August 15 of its first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, the industry’s most efficient twin-aisle aircraft.

The prices of essential goods and services have been increasing rapidly, while the personal income tax (PIT) has remained unchanged over the six years.

Vietnam’s businesses have had to change the way of organizing production to satisfy the increasingly high demand from China.

Saying that there is no discriminatory treatment to investment sources, experts have stressed that Vietnam needs a tool to ‘filter’ capital to prevent risks.

Vietnam has vowed to prevent and discover origin fraud in an effort to protect domestic production.

App-based ride-hailing vehicles may be managed by technology, instead of having to install a light box on top as proposed by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) earlier.

Vietnam has a trade surplus of $20 billion a year with the US, while the current account surplus is over 2 percent of GDP per annum.

The figures about imports/exports and investments in the first months of the year show that Vietnam did not receive big benefits from the trade war as estimated by some US agencies and media. In fact, the risks remain high.

The move by Vingroup to establish Vinpearl Air once again shows the attractiveness of the domestic aviation market.