Vietnam is working hard to have its stock market upgraded from frontier status to an emerging market by 2025.

Global investors' attention is shifting to Vietnamese stocks, which have a higher long-term rate of return (ROR) than stocks in other emerging markets in the region and the world.

VOV.VN - Proactive, a financial publication based in the UK, ran an article on June 15 to highlight the Vietnamese stock market recently reaching the milestone of US$1billion daily transactions, thereby making it the second most liquid bourse in Southeast Asia.