An Phat Plastic and Packing Jsc (An Phat PP) announced solemnly its strategic partners in Melia Hotel, Hanoi on February 15, 2008. Its four strategic share-holders accounting for 46% shares, include: IDJ Financial, DWS Investment, Sacombank Securities Company, and Petro Vietnam Finance Group – Nam Dinh branch, of which IDJ Financial holds 24.24%.

With a strong financial capacity, a knowledgeable team with investment financial, financial planning, IPO and listing, business planning experiences, IDJ Financial is highly appreciated as an effective and professional investment organization.

On 18 Jan 2008, IDJ Financial’s top leaders visited and donated gifts to poor patients affected by serious diseases in Bach Mai Hospital.

The Board of Directors had a important session to review  2007 performance and outline the Company’s 2008 objectives and plans on 15 January 2008 in Hotel Nikko Hanoi.

By 31 December 2007, after 9 months in operation, the company’s income before tax is VND 37.7 bn (thirty seven billion seven hundred million dong), or an ROE of 25%, and an income tax amount to be paid of VND 10 bn.

On October 3rd 2007, Mr. and Mrs. Alba arrived in Vietnam to participate in the ground breaking ceremony of a high standard school on a nearly 3 ha site in the centre of Hanoi – an important item in IDJ Financial’s investment portfolio in 2007.

The real estate service market (marketing, distribution, assessment, investment consultancy and real estate project management) is now in the hands of foreign companies.

The agreement reached by GE Oil & Gas and PetroVietnam in Washington DC on April 12 sets out a clear basis for continued successful cooperation between the US and Vietnamese groups in the coming years, confirmed a GE Oil & Gas official.

While many experts are concerned about the country's economic growth, including the trade deficit in the first quarter of the year, Viet Nam Asset Management Company (VAM) has taken a more positive outlook.

The dollar price has decreased since late 2009, but consumers have not benefited, because prices of imported products have not decreased accordingly.

Around 80 percent of enterprises in HCM City need capital to expand their business and production, but have difficulty accessing bank loans, according to the HCM City’s Union of Business Associations and Export Processing and Industrial Zone Authority

The central bank’s HCMC branch has said total mobilization of credit institutions in the city in March is estimated at VND608 trillion, up 0.77% from early this year, while the figure in late February declined 0.45%.

Japanese investors are eyeing deep-water sea ports in Viet Nam as well as high-speed railway and highways, the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper has reported.

The average export price this year has been $3,111 a tonne, 22.1 per cent higher than in the first quarter of last year. The price is expected to increase further this year due to a global supply shortfall.

New businesses are springing up since investors think it is the right time as the national economy shows clear signs of recovery. Shipping, real estate consulting, financial planning, specialty and farm produce trading have proven to be the major fields. 

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) will provide 150 million USD in credit to the coal development projects of the Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin).