Vietnam’s deeper integration into ASEAN is bringing the country golden opportunities in the real estate sector.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang and European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom signed an announcement on the official conclusion of negotiations on the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) in Brussels on December 2.

FPT, Vietcombank, PetroVietnam Gas (PVGas), Vinamilk, and Vingroup are five Vietnamese enterprises that appeared on the Asia300 report, which was released recently by Nikkei Asian Review.

The HCM Stock Exchange is developing new sector indexes based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and will introduce them in the first quarter of next year.

Asia is poised to ignite a decade of global trade growth and be the starting point for a quadrupling of worldwide exports to an estimated $68.5 trillion by 2050, according to new forecasts in HSBC’s landmark Trade Winds report released on November 24.

 Sun Group has committed to investing over VND20 trillion (US$887.5 million) to develop an airport and other projects in Lao Cai Province at a tourism investment promotion conference for the northwestern region in HCMC on November 23.