features
The Features category includes in-depth analyses, expert opinions, and long-form reports on key industries, policies, and market developments. It explores trends, challenges, and opportunities across various sectors, providing comprehensive insights for professionals, businesses, and policymakers.
Iran Oil Price Shock: Implications for Vietnam
The bombing over the weekend in Iran is likely to disrupt world oil supplies. In Vietnam, where fuel supplies are regulated, this could have wide-reaching implications.
Is Vietnam’s New Steel Strategy Solving the Right Problem?
In the week before the Lunar New Year, the Government of Vietnam released a new strategy for developing the local steel industry through 2050, setting a crude steel production growth target of 7 to 8 percent a year. But is more steel production really what Vietnam’s steel industry needs?
Reform, Rhetoric, and Reality: Vietnam’s Latest Development Strategy Unpacked
There has been a lot said about the incoming National Congress’s reformist agenda; however, look a little closer, and many of the reforms proposed are surface-level only, lacking the depth needed to spark real, sustainable, rapid economic growth.
Has Vietnam Reached Peak Garment & Textile Manufacturing?
Vietnam’s garment and textile exports fell short of expectations in 2025. Is this a sign that Vietnam’s garment and textile industry may have peaked?
Interview: Vietnam’s Digital Asset Exchange Plans with Founder of Coin89, Thanh Le
Thanh Le, founder of Coin98, discusses Vietnam’s evolving digital asset regulations and how Coin98 is repositioning amid tighter oversight.
Vingroup’s Q4 2025 Financial Report: Higher Revenue, Higher Leverage
Vingroup’s latest financial statements reveal more of the same — significant growth but powered by taking on a lot of new debt. This is nothing really new per se; however, some of the underlying balance-sheet pressures are reaching levels that are becoming harder to ignore.
Why Vietnam’s Car Market No Longer Makes Sense
The oversupply of cars in Vietnam’s car market has been well known for some time, yet the gap between supply and demand continues to grow. Without a clear rationale for the lack of a market correction, it would make sense if car makers with other options were reconsidering their positions.
Forecasting Vietnam’s Economy in 2026: Playing the Player, Not the Game
As the forecasts for Vietnam’s economy in 2026 start to roll in, this article looks at how the economy performed in 2025 and what it says about what might happen moving forward into 2026.
Vietnam Stock Market Outlook January 2025
The Vietnam stock market continued on its upwards trajectory in December, though as has been the case over the last twelve months, largely driven by just a handful of stocks. This article looks at key data points and developments in the securities sector in December.
Vietnam’s Electric Vehicle Transition Chaos: Unpacked
Vietnam’s EV transition has it all: vested local interests, conflicting policies, public safety and health concerns, and a jarring mismatch between official narratives and public perceptions. This has led to a situation nothing short of chaotic, with a positive outcome, for many, far from assured.
Vietnam Stock Market Outlook December 2025: The Power of VIC
In November, Vietnam’s key indexes continued to climb, though largely on the back of a standout performance from Vietnam’s biggest conglomerate by market capitalisation, Vingroup (VIC), which gained 36 percent. In this context, this article looks at the stock market’s key performance indicators and data points in November.
How Proposed Bankruptcy Law Revisions Undermine Vietnam Economic Objectives
A current draft of revisions of Vietnam’s Bankruptcy Law extends from three months to six months the time a creditor needs to wait before beginning bankruptcy proceedings. This is a significant extension that could hinder Vietnam’s broader development objectives.
Switching Gears: Vietnam’s Economy in October 2025
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has released its October economic update. This article breaks down the key data points and policy factors that shaped Vietnam’s economic landscape in October 2025 as well as the most recent economic news and developments.
Vietnam’s Black Market Dong Dilemma: Unpacked
A week or so ago, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) directed the Ministry of Public Security and a handful of other government bodies to help clamp down on the illegal currency trade. This may, however, put more pressure on the local currency. Here’s how.
Upgrade Pending: Vietnam Stock Market Outlook November 2025
Vietnam’s stock market enters November weighed down by foreign outflows, bond-market scrutiny, and uncertainty over the timing of the FTSE Russell upgrade to emerging-market status. Despite October’s announcement that HoSE could be reclassified in 2026, the VN-Index continued its decline, losing 22 points as investors stayed cautious.
What’s New in the Latest Vietnam-US Joint Statement on Trade?
A trade Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade between Vietnam and the United States was announced over the weekend. Here are the key takeaways.
Vietnam’s Gold Market: The Problem Isn’t Policy, It’s Populism
The gap between Vietnam’s gold price and the world gold price is largely the result of a failure to fully accept one fundamental concept in market economics: that not everyone can win all of the time. Until this is acknowledged, any long-term, sustainable reform is likely to remain elusive, writes Mark Barnes.
The Big Gap Between Foreign and Local Firms Behind Vietnam’s Export Boom: Unpacked
Locally owned firms have seen their share of Vietnam’s exports fall this year from about 30 to just over 20 percent. This is an anomaly in that it is out of proportion with a boom in exports overall. So what happened? And what does it mean?
Growth Accelerates, Debt Deepens: Vietnam’s GDP Growth Q3 2025
Vietnam pulled off another big quarter in terms of GDP growth in Q3, registering 8.23 percent, the fastest third-quarter growth rate since 2022, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO). This article breaks down Vietnam’s GDP growth in Q3 2025 per the NSO data, looks at what is driving this growth, where the demand is coming from, and how it’s being paid for.
Momentum Stalled: Vietnam Stock Market Outlook October 2025
Vietnam’s key stock market has had a meteoric rise this year, with its key index gaining 395 points since January. That rapid growth, however, has been driven by just a few stocks and a lot of hype, the latter of which looks like it may be tapering off as economic realities come to bear. It’s in this framework that this Outlook reviews what happened in September and considers what this might mean moving forward into October.
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