Any Singaporean own a business in Vietnam want to be filmed?

Hi,

I'm working with Channel NewsAsia to look for Singaporeans starting business in Vietnam to film.
The film will be in a series together with other countries in Southeast Asia.

We're looking for someone who's setting up a business (or has just set up, or opening a new branch etc) In Vietnam, preferably somewhere outside of Hanoi and HCMC. In case we can't find someone outside of Hanoi and HCMC, we would film some one in these cities if the story fits what we're looking for.
This person or a family may have just relocated or may have been there for a while but they must be going through some kind of a process, starting a new venture. For example:

+ A clinic (for people or animals, specialised or general medicine), beauty salon, spa, fishing or farming/bee keeping business, hotel/hostel/eco retreat, social enterprise etc. Something more unusual than a web-based startup or a restaurant, and good for visuals.

+ They must face some sort of a challenge, eg getting electricity or running water, or financial resources; cultural, language barriers, training staff, securing deliveries, attracting customers or just the many operational challenges when starting a new venture.
Were planning to film in June or July depends how soon we manage to find someone.

If you agree, and if we would select you to film, you're the only Singaporean in Vietnam is filmed.
Were featuring one person/family/couple per country. Other countries were featuring are Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Laos or Brunei.
You dont receive any compensation besides the official acknowledgement (special thanks to) and exposure. In terms of exposure, its both on TV and online.
But that also would help you to attract more customers and opportunities.

Each episode will be around 30 mins long. In terms for the actual shooting days, it depends on whats happening in the story, what stage the business is at, what kind of events or milestones well be able to capture. We can spend up to 12 days on each story, and this can be broken up into two parts: Before  to capture how the profile is working towards the milestone/milestones (eg a big opening of a new shop or testing a strategy to attract more customers), and after  to capture how the strategy has paid off, or check if the shop is doing well. Or, if there are a couple of important milestones or events spread out in time, eg one in June, one in July, then wed be making two visits to track it. It really depends on the profiles schedule and goals.

Here are some similar shows for your reference:

+ Singaporean does farming in Singapore: https://video.toggle.sg/en/video/series … ep2/480811
(regarding exposure - this business website hanged up because of the amount of traffic they received after our feature)

+ Bookstore's owner:  https://video.toggle.sg/en/video/series … ep3/481834
(these guys had more customers coming to their shop and more job applicants)

+ A Singaporean Abroad:  https://video.toggle.sg/en/video/series … ep8/360374
(a similar idea - a Singaporean working abroad. But were trying to capture the process of starting a business overseas and overcoming various challenges).

Feel free to send me a message if you are interested in this have any question/feedback!
Or if you can point me out to someone I can ask.

Best,
Khuyen

Hi Khuyen,

It will be better if you drop an advert in the Looking for testimonies in Vietnam section of the website. Interested members will contact you.

All the best,
Bhavna

Hi Bhavna,

I've posted and I hope it will be approved soon.
(Another advert of mine wasn't approved or declined yet,
so I don't know how long does it take with this).

One problem of posting advert is it requires me (mandatory) to put a city.
While with this ad, I look for all cities/places except Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city.
And I don't think that I can post one ad for all other cities.