55 More Rep Offices in HCM City

Nhan dan July 10, 99 - There are 55 more new foreign representative offices in Ho Chi Minh City in the first half of 1999.

11 of these are from Singapore, 7 from Taiwan, 6 from Hong Kong and Republic of Korea, 5 from Japan and 4 from USA and France.

There are 1,342 foreign representative offices in Ho Chi Minh City to date. These offices employ about 5,000 Vietnamese people and 2,241 expatriates.