by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Real Estate & Construction
⚡ TL;DRBetween 2012 and 2022, property tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan secretly controlled about 91.5 percent of Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB), Vietnam’s largest private lender by assets, and used it as a private treasury. Prosecutors said her Vạn Thịnh Phát group drew more...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Real Estate & Construction
⚡ TL;DRVinhomes is Vietnam’s largest residential developer and, in most years, the single most profitable listed company in the country, with revenue above VND 100 trillion (roughly $4 billion) and net profit on the order of VND 35 trillion in 2024. It builds...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Agriculture & Commodities, Vietnam Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRVietnam has been the world’s largest exporter of cashew kernels since 2006, shipping more than 700,000 tonnes worth a record of about $4.3 billion in 2024, yet it grows less than a fifth of the raw nuts it shells. The rest — some 2.5–3 million tonnes a...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Agriculture & Commodities, Vietnam Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRIn July 2022 China signed a protocol allowing fresh Vietnamese durian across its border for the first time. Within two years the fruit went from a $200 million sideline to a $3.3 billion export, the single largest item in Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Agriculture & Commodities, Vietnam Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRVietnam sells roughly $10–11 billion of seafood a year, making it the third-largest exporter in the world after China and Norway, with shrimp at about $4 billion, pangasius catfish around $2 billion and tuna near $1 billion. The industry was built by family...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Agriculture & Commodities, Vietnam Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRIn 1988 Vietnam was importing rice and parts of the north were close to famine; by 1989 it was exporting more than a million tonnes, and it has been among the world’s three largest rice exporters ever since. Exports reached a record of roughly 9 million...
