Those groups and corporations are Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group, Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation, Electricity of Vietnam, Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group and Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group.

Vietnam Report said nearly half of enterprises in VNR 500 were state-owned enterprises, implying that state-owned firms still dominated the landscape. Foreign-invested enterprises and private enterprises account 23.8 per cent and 31.2 per cent in the VNR 500 this year. However, Vietnam Report said the proportion of private enterprises in VNR 500 had increased year after year. The proportions of private enterprises in 2008, 2009 and 2010 were 24, 30 and 31.2 per cent, respectively. Vietnam Report Joint Stock Company has so far released its fourth Vietnam Report, called VNR 500 since 2006. Vietnam Report ranks enterprises in VNR500 according to other independent criteria, such as “Top enterprises have biggest benefit”, “Top enterprises have biggest total assets” and “Top enterprises have biggest number of employees”. VNR500

– Vietnam Top 500 Largest Enterprises by Revenue Ranking Board, the same as Fortune 500 model, is based on research results with international standard of Vietnam Report Joint Stock Company with the consultant of Vietnamese and international experts, consulted especially by Professor John Quelch, vice president of Harvard Business School.

List 1: Top-ten state-owned enterprises in Vietnam in 2010 RANK Enterprises

1 VIETNAMNATIONAL OIL AND GAS GROUP (PETRO VIETNAM)

2 VIETNAM NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (PETROLIMEX)

3 ELECTRICITY OF VIETNAM (EVN)

4 VIETNAMPOSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP (VNPT)

5 VIETNAM NATIONAL COAL MINERAL INDUSTRIES HOLDING CORPORATION LIMITED (VINACOMIN) 6 SAIGON JEWELRY COMPANY LIMITED (SJC)

7 VIETTEL GROUP

8 VIETNAM BANK FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (AGRIBANK)

9 VIETNAMSOUTHERN FOOD CORPORATION (VINAFOOD 2)

10 PETROVIETNAM EXPLORATION PRODUCTION CORPORATION (PVEP)

List 2: Top-ten private enterprises in Vietnam in 2010 RANK Enterprises

1 SAIGONGOLD AND SILVER ACB-SJC JOINT STOCK COMPANY

2 FPT CORPORATION

3 ASIA COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK (ACB)

4 VIETNAM DAIRY PRODUCTS JOINT STOCK COMPANY (VINAMILK)

5 DOJI GOLD & GEMS GROUP

6 THAI HUNG TRADING JOINT - STOCK COMPANY

7 PHU NHUAN JEWELRY JOINT STOCK COMPANY

8 SAIGON THUONG TIN COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK

9 VIETNAMTECHNOLOGICAL AND COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK