US telecommunication giant AT&T has named Vietnam as the most promising market in the Southeast Asia region,

Representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and localities in Viet Nam's central key economic region committed themselves to further boosting the region's economic community, under an agreement signed at a forum last Saturday.

Vietnam’s economic growth will quicken to about 6.5 percent this year, according to Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Smith.

Taiwanese-owned Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, which owns the world famous electronics manufacturing trade name Foxconn, will invest billions of dollars in a hi-tech complex in central Vietnam this year

As the economy recovers, the country’s two major economic hubs, HCM City and Ha Noi, have set high goals for GDP growth in 2010, 10 per cent and between 9 and 10 per cent, respectively.