Finance and Banking report in Q3/2012

Total deposits According to Hanoi Statistics Office, total deposits of Hanoi-based credit institutions in September 2012 reached 851.647 trillion VND, rising 1.09% on month and surging 3.63% from December 2011. Savings increased 2.5% and 17.11%, payment deposit up 0.2% and 2.95% and valuable paper issuance up 0.15% and down 34.7% respectively. Ho Chi Minh City Statistics … Read more

Economic Report in Q3/2012

In general, the country’s socio-economy in the first 9 months of 2012 continued to face many difficulties and challenges. Sluggish Investment activities together with decreasing exports in almost economies led to low growth. In the country, the narrowed goods consumption market has led to high inventory. GDP increased over quarters, but lower than the growth … Read more

One more investment project from Japanese investor.

Hoa Nguyen, ANT Consulting A leading Japanese company is preparing to build a factory in Vietnam. It is Fuji Xerox. Although they make investment through , based in Singapore, but the fact that a Japanese brand continue to choose Vietnam as an investment destination has contributed to confirm the trend of investing in Vietnam of … Read more

Investment attraction from the lighting industry

Lighting industry in Vietnam is considered attractive to potential domestic and foreign investors. Mr. Alex Lee, CEO of Stavis (Korea) – organization that recently held Vietnam Lighting Industry Exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the potential and investment opportunities for lighting areas are huge, since the Government of Viet Nam has been advocated … Read more

FedEx establishes a 100% foreign owned enterprise in Vietnam

ANT Consulting, Nov 27th, 2012 This information has been officially confirmed by Mr. David Cunningham, President of Asia – Pacific FedEx to Mr. Dao Quang Thu, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment. “FedEx has submitted to the authorities to set up a 100% foreign owned enterprise in Vietnam and hope that the Vietnamese Government will … Read more