Foreign Investors In Heat, But Vietnam's Hot Companies Playing Hard To Get

Foreign investors have been waiting, with growing impatience, for Vietnam to make a colossal change: let them own majorities of the country’s hot but elusive listed firms. This month a slew of companies you might want to invest in – as proxies of the fast-growing Southeast Asian economy – are holding their first annual general meetings where it makes sense to discuss opening further to foreign funds. In June, after two years of on-again, off-again discussion, the government approved a dec...