Vietnam billionaire count rises to 5 on Forbes list

Pham Nhat Vuong is the first Vietnamese to enter the list of the world’s 200 wealthiest people.

Realty and retail giant Vingroup sees itself becoming an international standard tech-industry-services powerhouse in ten years.

Vingroup has decided to make a foray into payments industry to take advantage of the many products and services it sells.

All conditions exist to compete and succeed in both domestic and foreign markets, Vingroup chairman asserts.

Want to make money? Property, aviation, steel and cars look like the way forward.

Chairmen of steel and automotive corporations are the latest Vietnamese to crack into Forbes' list of world's billionaires.

Pham Nhat Vuong has become the first Vietnamese to crack the list of the world's 500 wealthiest people.

Vingroup's founder has gained a staggering $1 billion in the last 8 months.

A surge in the share price of a real estate tycoon's construction company rocketed him into billionaire status.

The value of the acquisition remains a mystery.

Vietnam has about 12,000 millionaires with $1 million or more in net assets, a number which has increased by 354 percent in 10 years, from 2005 to 2015, according to the Wealth Report 2016 surveyed by Knight Frank, one of the world's largest global property consultancies.