State-run Viet Nam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) remains at the top of the 500 Vietnamese biggest enterprises list in terms of revenue (VNR500) this year, while the Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) has been named the country's largest private enterprise.

Catering is currently the most franchised business in Vietnam, accounting for 43.7 percent of the recorded franchise deals, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Domestic Market Department. 

Vietnam’s deeper integration into ASEAN is bringing the country golden opportunities in the real estate sector.

Asia is poised to ignite a decade of global trade growth and be the starting point for a quadrupling of worldwide exports to an estimated $68.5 trillion by 2050, according to new forecasts in HSBC’s landmark Trade Winds report released on November 24.

 Sun Group has committed to investing over VND20 trillion (US$887.5 million) to develop an airport and other projects in Lao Cai Province at a tourism investment promotion conference for the northwestern region in HCMC on November 23.

 Vietnam could overtake Indonesia to become the world’s largest corn importer if import of the farm produce continues to grow as strongly as this year, heard a conference on agriculture in HCMC last week.