The development of coal-fired power plants in Vietnam depends largely on foreign financial resources, especially China. 

Tourism is emerging as one of the most promising business fields, but its development has been hindered by many inadequacies.

International institutions have given positive comments about the operation of the Vietnamese banking sector.

Foreign petrol distributors have set foot in the Vietnamese market, but they will have to confront Petrolimex, the giant which holds 50% of market share, and other rivals. 

With the VN Index increasing sharply by 48 percent in 2017, stocks were the assets with the highest profitability. No other assets, except bitcoin, brought such impressive profits.

Vietnamese enterprises made hefty investments in automobile manufacturing projects in 2017, with the aim of becoming an automobile production center in SE Asia.

Hanoi will strictly control motorbikes in 2018 and prohibit them in inner city areas by 2030.

A number of startups successfully called for millions of dollars from foreign investors in 2017.

Vietnam’s water resource security is facing challenges at a time of climate change.

Many records related to capital transfer affairs were broken in 2017.