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Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in Vietnam in apps used such as face-identification technology cameras, smartphone chatbots, self-propelling vehicles, and nano robots developed by FPT Group, Zalo Brain and Zalo Assistant by VNG.
After a quiet period, M&As have once again become a hot topic of discussion at banks’ annual shareholders’ meetings. Several big deals are expected to be completed this year.
Commercial banks are becoming digitalized, while fintechs, with great advantages in technology, have joined the consumer lending market.
The great success of Vietjet Air, which was smaller and less experienced than Vietnam Airlines and other rivals when it joined the aviation market, has inspired newcomers like Bamboo Airways.
Network operators have announced the suspension of online payments via scratch cards, causing concern among digital content and online game firms.
Phu Quoc, Van Don and Bac Van Phong, in order to develop into powerful SEZs, need to have an outstanding business environment and new institutional policies, experts say.
LINE expects to make a comeback to Vietnam through its investment in webtretho.com.
The map of the Vietnam’s e-commerce market is being redrawn as more and more foreign firms have entered the field.
Pharmaceutical companies are hiring retail chains to distribute their products, rather than develop distribution networks of their own.
Vietnamese are some of Southeast Asia’s biggest buyers of luxury cars. As many as 8,670 luxury cars of different kinds were sold in Vietnam in 2017, a decrease of 15 percent from 2016, according to one report. However, the amount of money spent on the cars was VND20 trillion.