Vietnam’s Silicon Valley sparks startup boom


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 07 Sep 2016

Exploring opportunities: Hollande and a cohort of businessmen are meeting tech investors in Ho Chi Minh City.

Recent Vietnamese graduate looking for an English language teacher? There’s an app for that. Or hunting the best bowl of pho in your Hanoi neighbourhood? There’s now an app for that, too.

A decade ago such technology would likely have been developed in California’s Silicon Valley, but today those apps are being churned out by Vietnam’s startup sector -- an industry driven by local techies trained overseas but returning home to prowl for opportunities.

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