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SURVEY ON ENERGY PRICING, ENERGY SUPPLY AND IMPACTS ON FDI IN VIETNAM
The information collected from this study, which will be treated as highly confidential, will feed directly into the Vietnamese Government’s energy pricing and supply policy discussions designed to help address foreign investors’ energy policy development needs and concerns.
The survey is designed in five languages (English, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese with English is the origin of language) with 13 question long and it should not take more than 5 minutes to complete. To take the survey, please click HERE
As a foreign business association/chamber of commerce in Vietnam, yours and your member’s opinions are important to us and we are much appreciated if you could spare few minutes to take part in this Survey and also forward it to your members for their participation by February 13, 2015.
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