Saturday, June 9, 2007

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Japanese investors get Vietnam fever

HANOI/TOKYO (Reuters) - Tadayoshi Okimoto, an auto company executive from southern Japan, rubs shoulders with dozens of Vietnamese at a brokerage in Ho Chi Minh City, excited to get a piece of Vietnam's fledgling stock market.

Okimoto is on a tour to Vietnam's budding financial center organised by a Japanese travel agency that brings Japanese retail investors to Vietnam to open share trading accounts. The tour is so popular with Japanese wanting to take advantage of a burgeoning stock market that it runs almost every working day.

"In many countries, the stock market is mature and goes up and down a lot. But in Vietnam, the stock is very new so the chart is going up all the time. In two or three years' time, we will receive a lot of money from our investment," Okimoto, 41, said.

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