Vietnam lures $35.46 billion FDI in 2018

[KAL-EL]

Good for Vietnam

 

[Nilgiri]

Thanks but I thought greenfield investment is included in the FDI statistic, together with joint ventures and acquisitions. It also would be too much an accounting variant ie double the size. Um...

Yah if whatever greenfield announcement of total size (say 10 billion over estimate 10 years) has some flow within the same year its announced (say the first 1 billion tranche)...then (just that amount) will be included in the realised flow of that year....but the rest will come in the flows of the later (still to come) years.

Flow (net or gross) only concerns what actually transmits that year....rather than whats announced.

So total commitment announced in a year (by all the relevant parties) and tallied up to give "luring" number....is going to be much higher than the actual flow....given these announcement numbers will be spread over whatever number of years.

M&A, brownfield etc... it depends on the accounting method. I believe World Bank does count it as FDI, but some others do not.

 

[Viva_Viet]

Vietnam is becoming an example for other countries.
Been to vietnam 2 years ago..they have massive electronics factories n dedicated workforce..india can learn a lot from vietnam in this regards.
Great my viet frens @Viet @Viva_Viet

CN economy is getting worse due to more and more investors shifting to VN

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US tariffs will hit China harder next year, analysts say

• So far, China's economy has been struggling more with domestic issues rather than tariffs, analysts say.
• But there are signs of challenges the trade issues could add to the economy next year.
• After strong year-over-year export growth of 14.4 percent in September and 15.6 percent in October, growth dropped to a disappointing 5.4 percent increase in November, according to official figures accessed through the Wind Info database

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/us-tariffs-will-hit-china-harder-next-year-analysts-say.html

 

[Senang Diri]

It appears Vietnam Fdi is stagnant which not a good sign. I wonder how can a little country as Singapore attract Fdi of 62 billion USD?
https://sbr.com.sg/markets-investin...fifth-spot-in-largest-foreign-investment-hubs

@Mista

He is a foreigner. Don't mistake him for a Singaporean. The tell tale sign of a true blue Singaporean is Singlish. He failed miserably there. Moreover, he tried to pass of as a conscript, miserably failed there too. He only looked up " SAF Signals" at Google and found the HQ of Signals at Stagmont in Singapore. That's all he knows.

All the information he provides can be provided by just about any foreigner who lived in SG for six months, even less. His knowledge of SG comes from one subforum, where more than 50% of the members were non-Singaporeans (any true blue Singaporean can tell them apart) and mostly from mass media, for which you can always use Google or other search engine.

He has no background in defence which is the theme of this forum.

He has no background in science, tech, engineering or the likes either.

He would be chattering nonstop about GDP and economy. An obvious falseflagger who is too ashamed of his own flag. Don't expect the mods here to do much, they are pretty much clueless about the rest of the world outside their comfort zones.


With that out of the way, Singapore receives FDI in much the same way that USA, UK, China, HK or others do. Some of it is inflow of funds into the financial markets if i am not wrong. Some of them go into acquisition of SG companies, which happens all too frequently to mention. Some of them go into manufacturing, some into services sector.

And the same goes the other way round when SG invests abroad.

Don't mind the Indonesian member either, plz. They are known for being our maids. Only in this forum do we have them regarded as some powerful country. In rest of the world, they are mostly known for incorrigible corruption, low IQ, PISA, TIMSS scores, awful nonself citations per capita in STEM disciplines, no high tech sector worth mentioning. And Bali.

This forum is funny in a way

It's an alternate reality of sorts, with no connection to reality.

Guess it helps the less developed nations vent their frustrations and pretend to be some high tech powerhouses.

 

[Nilgiri]

The tell tale sign of a true blue Singaporean is Singlish.

I remember asking for a coke back when I was a teenager in Singapore...and the shop were all out of cans and only had bottles....and the shop owner was telling me "Bottle can, can cannot!" - still cracks me up to this day. Love Singapore heartlanders.

 

[dBSPL]

If Vietnam had not been so frustrated by China and the United States in the past 60 years, it would certainly has more important position in world politics. Hardworking and passionate people and certainly has great potentials.

 

[Viva_Viet]

If Vietnam had not been so frustrated by China and the United States in the past 60 years, it would certainly has more important position in world politics. Hardworking and passionate people and certainly has great potentials.

VN is located in a very impotant place ( center of ASEAN, best place to control SCS ( east VN sea) which 70% CN-JP-SK merchant ships must pass by), so war against big bad nations is unavoidable. But VN always find out the way to defeat powerful enemy and continue our developement.

Due to very important location, so the big bad nations will keep coming back to VN and bcs they can not control us, so they ( US-CN) have to make friend wt us to make sure VN will not let SCS( east VN sea) fall to CN or US.

 

[GeraltofRivia]

I remember asking for a coke back when I was a teenager in Singapore...and the shop were all out of cans and only had bottles....and the shop owner was telling me "Bottle can, can cannot!" - still cracks me up to this day. Love Singapore heartlanders.

Haha, they also add a “la” into every ending I think?

 

[Nilgiri]

Haha, they also add a “la” into every ending I think?

Yup, "lah" is added at end a lot. Lot of slang words from Hokkien, cantonese (tend to use lor instead of lah), malay and even some Tamil in there as well...though sometimes I am not sure where some of the words came from like "Alamak!"....compared to "kiasu" which is obv Hokkien etc. Lot of Chinese southern dialects like Teochew, hainanese and Hakka also in there...though mandarin influence also creeping in nowadays.

It is what is known as an English creole. In Malaysia, it is quite similar...in fact I picked a lot more after I left Singapore from my close Malaysian friend (here in Canada).

 

[Mista]

I remember asking for a coke back when I was a teenager in Singapore...and the shop were all out of cans and only had bottles....and the shop owner was telling me "Bottle can, can cannot!" - still cracks me up to this day. Love Singapore heartlanders.

Haha, they also add a “la” into every ending I think?

Yup, "lah" is added at end a lot. Lot of slang words from Hokkien, cantonese (tend to use lor instead of lah), malay and even some Tamil in there as well...though sometimes I am not sure where some of the words came from like "Alamak!"....compared to "kiasu" which is obv Hokkien etc. Lot of Chinese southern dialects like Teochew, hainanese and Hakka also in there...though mandarin influence also creeping in nowadays.

It is what is known as an English creole. In Malaysia, it is quite similar...in fact I picked a lot more after I left Singapore from my close Malaysian friend (here in Canada).

'Can' is directly translated from Mandarin. Singlish is highly efficient but difficult for foreigners to even comprehend.