Vietnam
Vietnam's stock market looks a lot like Taiwan's, but you can't sell until the afternoon of T+2, you need cash up front, and short selling isn't allowed. A rule-by-rule comparison.
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Tesla's new Vietnam company is licensed to import, wholesale and retail cars, but the carmaker has not announced models, prices or a launch date.
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On the same day, Vingroup founder Phạm Nhật Vượng's two sons became CEOs of VinFast and taxi operator GSM. One inherits a carmaker losing more than USD 1 billion a quarter; the other runs a company aiming for a Hong Kong listing in 2028.
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Vinasun cut its headcount to a tenth of what it was, switched half its fleet to Toyota hybrids, and still posted its first loss since 2021. First Grab, then Xanh SM. Now Ho Chi Minh City gets to decide whether a hybrid counts as green.
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The same IMF report says Vietnam overtakes Thailand this year on purchasing power but not until 2029 in dollars. The difference is exchange rates, and per capita Vietnam is still at 60% of Thailand.
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Vietnam's housing sales fell by nearly a third in mid-2026 and Hanoi resale apartments dropped for the first time since 2022, but developers would rather raffle a Lamborghini than cut prices.
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Leave a Vietnamese company idle and the system assumes it is still trading. Penalties pile up year after year, the tax authority is now chasing 290,000 such firms, and owners can be barred from leaving the country.
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The same dataset puts Taiwan at 2.08x expected usage and Vietnam at 0.53x. The gap is nearly fourfold, and the mix is different too: Vietnamese users lean on Claude for coding and technical reference, while business and investing use is just getting started.
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Thailand's second-largest bank walked into Vietnam with a billion-dollar budget. Five years on, its Ho Chi Minh City branch has lost roughly VND1.02 trillion before tax.
Fintech
Grab's financial services arm has racked up over $1.2 billion in losses since its 2021 IPO, and of its three digital banks only Indonesia's Superbank makes money — while in Vietnam, Grab has exited payments entirely.
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WeChat Pay went live in Vietnam on August 6, the third Chinese payment platform to plug into VietQRGlobal in just over eight months.
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MWG is spinning off Vietnam's biggest consumer electronics chain, Điện Máy Xanh, at a near-USD 4 billion valuation — but all proceeds repay the parent's short-term debt, and retail investors get a free float of under 15%.