SpaceX, Netflix and Boeing are among the companies joining the "biggest-ever" US business mission to Vietnam next week to discuss investment and sales opportunities in the booming Southeast Asian nation, the organiser said. More than 50 companies, including defence, pharmaceutical and tech firms, will participate in the mission organised by the US-ASEAN Business Council, an industry body, according to a list seen by Reuters.

"This is the biggest-ever mission in Vietnam," said Vu Tu Thanh, the US-ASEAN Business Council's representative in the country, noting that the body had been organising these events for three decades.

Thanh said some companies were interested in Vietnam as a manufacturing hub and in providing services to increasingly wealthy consumers at a time when economic growth reached more than 8% last year.

The majority of the companies joining the business mission already have a business or manufacturing presence in Vietnam, including Apple and Coca-Cola, Thanh said, with some planning to expand it.

The mission will also include semiconductors companies, pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, financial firms Visa, and Citibank, internet and cloud companies Meta and Amazon Web Services, the list showed.

Source: VOV5