A record high of 1.35 billion USD was poured into Vietnamese startups last year (Illustrative photo: VNA) Fields drawing the highest amount of capital include fintech, game, education, health care and e-commerce, according to the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology. To date, Vietnam has been home to about 3,800 startups, with two unicorns - tech giant VNG Corporation and VNLife Corporation, along with 11 others each valued at more than 100 million USD such as Momo e-wallet and Tiki online marketplace. Of note, Tiki received 258 million USD in funding, VNLife 250 million USD, Sky Mavis 152 million USD and Momo 100 million USD. Vietnam has nearly 70 million Internet users and mobile phone subscribers hit 70 percent of the population (Photo: baodautu.vn) Some startups like Loship, Citics and Sky Mavis successfully called for investment twice in the year, motivating others amid the pandemic. The Vie
Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City reached around 6.6 billion USD in 2021, up 9 percent from the previous year, according to Nguyen Hoang Minh, head of the Vietnam Banks Association’s Office in HCM City.
Firms in diverse areas nationwide expect that recruitment activities will grow strongly in the first half of 2022 as the economy is gradually recovering, according to the newly-published ManpowerGroup Vietnam Employment Outlook Survey in the first and second quarters of 2022.