January 6, 2012
Pledged foreign direct investment into Vietnam fell 26 percent this year through December 15, the Foreign Investment Agency of the Ministry of Planning and Investment said in a e-mailed statement on December 30. Committed investment was $14.7 billion over the period, according to the statement. Disbursed foreign direct investment for the whole of 2011 [...]
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November 19, 2011
An undated file photo taken at the Toyota Vietnam plant. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said last week the company isn’t considering reducing investment in Thailand. Japanese companies, Thailand’s biggest foreign investors, may spend more to build factories in neighbors including Indonesia and Vietnam after the worst flooding in 70 years disrupted global production. “Executives recognize [...]
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April 28, 2011
Vietnam’s government said pledged foreign direct investment into the nation declined almost 48 percent in the first four months of 2011 from a year earlier. Committed investment dropped to $4.02 billion, the Foreign Investment Agency of the Ministry of Planning and Investment said in a statement on its website today. Disbursed foreign investment gained [...]
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December 7, 2010
Vietnam needs to figure out where it wants to go and how it’s going to get there before it loses its economic edge A worker at a textile factory in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam needs to move beyond the current economic growth model which is based on low labor cost, a Harvard guru [...]
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January 27, 2010
US Website: VN economy likely to show significant expansion; Market volumes hit 7-month low; Vietsovpetro to install two oil rigs in Bach Ho Hanoi, VietnamThe Vietnamese economy is expected to show a significant expansion though it was mildly affected by the diminished export demand, said a New York-based website. An article posted on Seeking Alpha [...]
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January 11, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Multi-billion dollar foreign-invested power projects are anticipated to be a shining light in Vietnam’s 2010 foreign direct investment picture. LookAtVietnam – Multi-billion dollar foreign-invested power projects are anticipated to be a shining light in Vietnam’s 2010 foreign direct investment picture. According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s (MPI) Foreign Investment Agency (FIA), [...]
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January 2, 2010
TNS Vietnam, Kantar Worldpanel and Kantar Media have identified several key trends that will influence consumerism in 2010. One year ago, Vietnam was marred in its first recession in modern history and the prospects of the average consumer were looking bleak. Twelve months later, it appears that Vietnamese consumers seem to have weathered “the perfect [...]
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December 26, 2009
Many FDI projects have broken ground, but whether they are completed is another story LookAtVietnam – Despite the recovering global economy, provincial authorities remain concerned at the dark clouds gathering over next year’s foreign direct investment horizon. A dearth of credit due to cautious banks and fundamental constraints to the country’s investment environment such as [...]
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December 21, 2009
Vietnamâs external position is âfairly healthy,â in spite of market concerns about the countryâs trade deficit, Barclays Plc said. Vietnamâs economy has âall the hallmarksâ of an emerging markets crisis, with growth poised to overheat as inflation quickens and foreign-exchange reserves fall, Nomura Holdings Inc. said this month. A decline in the reserves to less [...]
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November 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The country’s export turnover in the first 11 months this year reached around US$51.4 billion, an 11.4 per cent year-on-year decrease. The country’s export turnover in the first 11 months this year reached around US$51.4 billion, an 11.4% year-on-year decrease.With such turnover, the country’s exports reached an average of $4.6 billion per month [...]
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