Vietnam among Asia Pacific’s top five business destinations

Vietnam ranks third in a list of top destinations for business expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a survey by a global real estate management firm.

In the Jones Lang LaSalle survey of firms in 15 Asia-Pacific economies, China topped the list of favored destinations, followed by India, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore.

Indonesia ranked sixth in the list ahead of Malaysia, Australia, Cambodia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong, the Jakarta Post reported.

The newspaper cited the survey as saying that 83 percent of multinationals surveyed said they would increase or maintain their current growth rates in the Asia-Pacific region, while 28 percent plan to accelerate the growth of their operations in the region in the second quarter of this year.

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