Mergers and acquisitions are increasingly being seen as ways for property projects in the central city of Danang to overcome long delays.

Investors around Asia may share the same excitement about Vietnam’s M&A market, but their strategies are often quite different from one another.

With high-end smartphones like Bphone 2 or affordable smartphones like Mobiistar, will Vietnamese smartphones survive amidst the vicious competition?

Since the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), Vietnam has become a potential market for regional retailers, which promotes the development of the domestic retail sector, but also alerts domestic enterprises to watch out and continuously improve to not fall behind.

The first half of 2017 has witnessed many bancassurance deals in Vietnam and the second may also see heightened cooperation among insurers and commercial banks, which promises to heat up the bancassurance sector. 

Foreign investors are rushing to open convenience store chains in Vietnam, which is forecast to become the fastest-growing convenience store market in Asia by 2021.

In the context of fierce competition among brewers, two of Vietnam’s largest brewers Sabeco and Habeco have millions of dollars on advertisements, which they consider an important weapon in the race to gain the market share, according to newswire Vnexpress.

Vietnam’s bustling e-commerce market is drawing more attention from Singaporean firms and startups.

The Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, known as VietCham Singapore (www.vietcham.org.sg), was established in 2013 to support Vietnamese businesses with their regional and global expansion.

Although detailed information about the electronics chain to be acquired by Mobile World Investment Corporation (MWG) has not been released yet, according to rumours, the chain might be Tran Anh Digital World JSC (Tran Anh—ticker TAG on HNX), a big rival of MWG.