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Vietnam's Only Comprehensive Monthly-updated Guide to Investment

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1. Investment by country from Jan to March 29, 2004.

Countries and territories	Number of projects	Registered capital ($m)	Legal capital ($m)
Canada	4	148.02	44.42
South Korea	22	52.15	27.12
U.S.	6	22.61	8.90
Japan	5	18.45	8.32
Hong Kong	5	18.12	5.48
Taiwan	15	12.68	5.18
China	10	9.16	5.37
Malaysia	4	4.85	1.51
Russia	1	3.28	1.00
France	2	2.62	0.79
B.V. Islands	3	2.35	0.83
Germany	1	1.52	0.52
Belize	1	1.00	0.30
Panama	1	0.50	0.20
Singapore	1	0.10	0.03
Thailand	1	0.10	0.10
Netherlands	1	0.05	0.05
Total	83	297.56	110.12

2. Investment by country as of March 29, 2004.

Countries & territories	Number of projects	Registered capital	Disbursed capital ($m)
Singapore	290	7,814.54	3,033.58
Taiwan	1,111	6,230.44	2,640.70
Japan	430	4,612.72	3,956.00
South Korea	693	4,306.76	2,723.50
Hong Kong	295	3,003.08	1,805.52
France	137	2,119.28	1,045.18
B.V. Islands	190	2,006.08	1,076.78
Netherlands	52	1,768.32	1,934.80
Thailand	118	1,392.82	645.26
U.K.	187	1,186.19	709.08
U.S.	53	1,185.11	595.61
Malaysia	139	1,139.42	778.17
Switzerland	27	662.81	517.98
Australia	91	614.28	308.68
China	259	530.95	146.78
Sweden	11	455.43	358.85
Cayman Islands	11	384.56	397.91
B. West Indies	4	352.65	84.39
Bermuda	5	260.32	156.82
Germany	50	245.38	120.67
Russia	44	234.12	182.79
Philippines	20	224.62	83.47
Canada	38	217.77	17.00
Indonesia	11	120.05	126.67
Denmark	17	119.90	80.16
Mauritius	7	88.18	626.57
Channel Islands	12	76.35	48.80
Belgium	22	53.29	38.98
Turkey	4	46.00	1.00
India	9	45.41	550.38
New Zealand	10	41.02	11.18
Norway	11	40.29	14.94
Italy	13	38.69	8.54
Czech Republic	5	35.93	8.32
Liechtenstein	2	35.50	35.03
Luxembourg	12	34.74	14.73
Poland	6	30.00	13.90
Iraq	2	27.10	15.10
Ukraine	6	23.95	14.09
Bahamas	3	17.35	5.35
Isle of Man	1	15.00	1.00
Panama	4	13.73	2.29
Austria	7	12.85	3.97
Sri Lanka	3	12.81	1.17
Samoa	3	11.30	2.80
Laos	4	11.05	5.48
Macau	4	10.30	2.48
Cuba	1	6.60	7.32
Israel	3	6.53	5.19
Brunei	4	6.00	-
Belize	2	4.00	0.98
Hungary	3	3.13	1.74
Western Samoa	1	2.30	1.71
Guatemala	1	1.87	-
Yugoslav Federation	1	1.58	-
Syria	3	1.05	-
Turks & Caicos Islands	1	1.00	0.70
Spain	2	0.75	0.06
Cambodia	2	0.70	0.40
Cyprus	1	0.50	0.15
Guam	1	0.50	-
Belarus	1	0.40	-
Argentina	1	0.12	0.12
North Korea	1	0.10	-
Total	4,462	42,005.59	24,970.84

3. Investment by province from Jan to March 29, 2004.

Cities and provinces	Number of projects	Registered capital ($m)	Legal capital ($m)
Thai Nguyen	3	147.65	44.48
HCMC	27	31.02	15.21
Dong Nai	10	24.29	8.82
Binh Duong	11	23.08	9.64
Hanoi	13	21.59	11.54
Quang Nam	1	13.20	4.00
Quang Ninh	2	6.60	3.50
Vinh Phuc	1	5.00	2.00
Yen Bai	2	4.25	3.25
Hai Duong	2	3.88	1.16
Quang Ngai	1	3.28	1.00
Tien Giang	1	3.20	1.00
Binh Thuan	1	2.50	0.75
Danang	1	2.46	1.55
Hung Yen	1	1.35	0.42
Lao Cai	1	1.20	0.75
Long An	1	1.10	0.33
Bac Ninh	1	1.00	0.30
Lam Dong	2	0.85	0.35
Cao Bang	1	0.07	0.07
Total	83	297.56	110.12

4. Investment by sector as of March 29, 2004.

	Sector	Number of projects	Registered capital ($m)	Disbursed capital ($m)
1.	Industry	2,985	24,136.73	17,010.9
	Oil & Gas	27	1,891.58	4,426.10
	Light industry	1,223	6,276.71	2,796.14
	Heavy industry	1,248	9,707.89	6,067.80
	Food industry	211	2,820.53	1,815.25
	Construction	276	3,440.02	1,896.67
2	Agriculture & forestry	610	2,973.13	1,580.16
	Agriculture & forestry	515	2,710.33	1,451.97
	Aquaculture	95	262.80	128.19
3.	Service	867	14,895.73	6,379.72
	Transport, post & telecom	124	2,600.76	1,407.94
	Hotel & tourism	146	3,393.21	2,095.94
	Banking & finance	46	596.05	598.13
	Culture, health & education	152	631.12	232.68
	New urban area	3	2,466.67	6.29
	Office building & apartment	99	3,466.41	1,592.08
	IZ’s & EPS’s infrastructure construction	19	895.63	525.07
	Other	278	845.89	281.60
Total		4,462	42,005.59	24,970.84

5. Investment by sector from Jan to March 29, 2004.

	Sector	Number of projects	Registered capital ($m)	Disbursed capital ($m)
1.	Industry	54	238.74	86.02
	Oil & Gas
	Light industry	21	41.14	15.62
	Heavy industry	25	184.65	63.76
	Food industry	1	3.20	1.00
	Construction	7	9.75	5.64
2.	Agriculture & forestry	13	19.62	7.69
	Agriculture & forestry	13	19.62	7.69
	Aquaculture
3.	Service	16	39.19	16.40
	Transport, post & telecom	4	1.88	0.61
	Hotel & tourism	2	12.50	3.75
	Banking & finance
	Culture, health & education	2	2.00	0.60
	New urban area
	Office building & apartment	1	20.55	10.30
	IZ’s & EPS’s infrastructure construction
	Other	7	2.26	1.14
Total		83	297.56	110.12

Source: Vietnam Investment Review April 5-11, 2004

Apr 12 2004

EU’s Investments in Vietnam Growing Well

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According to economic analysts, the European Union (EU) will continue being a key partner of Vietnam after it admits 10 new members in the coming May, triggering its population to over 500 million.

Since the early days of the implementation of the Foreign Investment Law, many enterprises of France, the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, etc came to Vietnam. Up to now, there have been 11out of 15 member states of the EU performing in vestment projects in Vietnam. Currently, the EU has 372 in-effect projects with the total registered capital of over US$6 billion, of which some $4.2 billion was disbursed. The EU has created over 39,350 jobs in Vietnam.

Out of the in-effect projects, the industry and construction sector made up 201 projects worth roughly $3.73 billion in terms of total registered capital, $2.84 billion of which was disbursed, the service sector accounted for 129 projects valued at over $1.87 billion in respect of total registered capital, of which about $1.04 billion was disbursed, and the remaining projects are for agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

EU’s enterprises mainly invested in such 3 fields as heavy industry, oil and gas, and transport and post. Investments in these three fields made up over $4 billion of registered capital and nearly $3 billion of disbursed capital.

In regards to investment forms, 100% foreign-owned enterprises have possessed 225 projects with the total registered capital of more than $1.39 billion, of which $783 million was disbursed, and attracted approximately 24,600 direct laborers; the joint-ve nture companies make up 122 projects worth nearly $1.16 billion in total registered capital, of which $742,5 million was disbursed and it created about 11,870 jobs; the remaining projects are invested in post and telecommunications, oil and gas and econo mic-technical infrastructure building taking the forms of Cooperative Business Contract (BBC), Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), Build-Transfer (BT) and Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO).

The EU nations are also big donors for Vietnam, making up over one third of the total amount of ODA capital supplied to Vietnam by the International Donors Community, of which non-refundable ODA usually makes up high percentage. Given Switzerland aided Vietnam non-refundable ODA amounting nearly $2 billion.

Trade and tourism relation between Vietnam and EU’s members has been increasingly boosted. Currently, Vietnam’s export receipt to the EU market has been higher than $3 billion and imports from this market attained nearly $2 billion. The EU’s visiting tou rists to Vietnam account for one third of the international visitors coming to Vietnam. See table below for EU’s FDI in Vietnam up to February 20, 2004:

 

Countries	Projects	Registered capital (US$ mln)	Disbursed capital (US$ mln)	Creation of jobs
Total	372	6,027	4,195	39,350
In particular:
France	135	2,115	1,045	14,897
Netherlands	51	1,768	1,929	8,286
The UK	53	1,185	595	5,922
Sweden	11	455	359	946
Germany	49	244	122	3,330
Norway	17	119	80	910
Others	56	141	65	5,059

Source: Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment

Mar 22 2004