VietNamNet Bridge - Big money has been poured into pearl projects in Vietnam, which has a long coastline of 3,600 kilometers, but profits have sometimes been unsatisfactory.

VietNamNet Bridge - Road building projects that would pass through natural reserves have been proposed, while many resorts have been built in national parks. 

The Bach Khoa Anti-virus Center (BKAV), the leading internet security group, has warned that hundreds of important systems in Vietnam are at risk of having clients’ information stolen through vulnerability Drown on websites using https protocol. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The bad debt ratio of the banking system has decreased, but the bad debt value has begun to increase again.

VietNamNet Bridge - A high percentage of students have decided to take the geography test for the 2016 high school finals, while history is the choice of very few students.

VietNamNet Bridge - The national television VTV is looking for strategic partners for VTVcab, one of its subsidiaries now undergoing equitization.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese rich are spending enormous amounts of money for super cars.

VietNamNet Bridge - Commercial banks are rushing to set up more branches and transaction offices after a long period of interruption.

VietNamNet Bridge - Having to work 10 hours a day and bearing pressure, a preschool teacher can earn some VND3 million a month.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam witnessed a trade surplus of $865 million in the first two months of the year. However, it was foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) which deserved the credit.

VietNamNet Bridge - By the end of 2014, Petrolimex, the Vietnam Petroleum Import/Export Corporation (Petrolimex), held 48 percent of the domestic petroleum distribution market.

Many securities companies are wavering between lifting the room ceiling for foreign investors to 100 percent and staying Vietnamese-owned as they fear they will no longer receive preferences if they are foreign-owned.

VietNamNet Bridge - What happened with the instant coffee market in 2015 showed that the market was unpredictable.

VietNamNet Bridge - Only foreign-invested automobile manufacturers can benefit from the current investment incentives, while Vietnamese automobile cannot grow, experts say.

The Vietnam Macadamia Association has been officially set up under a decision by the Ministry of Interior Affairs. LienVietPost Bank and Him Lam JSC were two major businesses lobbying for the association.

VietNamNet Bridge - Local authorities and investors who are developing road and hydropower projects have promised to plant forests to offset the trees they fell. However, they have failed to keep their word.

VietNamNet Bridge - Steel mills now have to struggle to compete with imports from China. If the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) does not take temporary safeguard measures, a series of enterprises will go bankrupt.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though Vietnam has fulfilled the procedures and paperwork related to plant quarantines in order to enter new markets, many countries are still slow to accept Vietnam’s products. 

Foreign investors have been flocking to Vietnam as they can see great opportunities here. Vietnam needs to use the right to choose investors in the best way so as to fully exploit foreign direct investment (FDI), experts say.