Panasonic Newsletter

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of PCV Apr 30, 2007
Volume 2, issue 3
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Inside this issue: Visit Of Mr. Job fair of

Grand
Opening Fujiyoshi at Panasonic
Ceremony PCV Vietnam Group
Page 2-4 Page 5 Page 6

Trade Union Certificating New

Establishment Professional assembly
PBX soldering line

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5S Audit New New

Recruitment members
stage this month

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Grand Opening Ceremony

The Grand Opening
Ceremony is the biggest
event of the year for
Panasonic Vietnam
Group as well as for
PCV. After nearly 1
year, the event that we
have been waiting for so
long finally took place
on April 5, 2007.
Attending the Grand
Opening Ceremony, we
had VIP guests from the
Ministry of Industry,
Hanoi People’s
Committee, Department
of Taxation, Hoa Lac Hi- Commerce and Industry, Japan Embassy …and
tech industrial zone, the leading executive officer from Matsushita
Vietnam Chamber of Electric Industrial Corporation and Panasonic
Communication Company. .
This event drew the attention of government
and mass media. In the afternoon of April 05,
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a meeting
with Mr. Nakamura - Former chairman of MEI
to discuss the opportunities of investment in
Vietnam. The biggest newspapers of Vietnam
such as Vietnam News, The Saigon Times,
Hanoi Moi, Nhan Dan, Vietnam Investment
Review,

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Presented the gift to Mr. Nakamura delivered a speech

Mr. Hatori- Japanese Ambassador

Dragon dance Factory tour

Labor, Vietnam Economic Times…had articles about our Grand Opening

ceremony as well as about PCV and PEDV . an
The Opening of Panasonic Vietnam is the beginning of operations of 100%
foreign owned holding companies with subsidiaries in Vietnam.
Attending this opening ceremony, Mr. Hao, Vice Minister of Industry stated
that the Ministry of Planning & Investment and Ministry of Industry will

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Press conference

cooperate with other related agencies

to continuously give their support for
the best efficiency of the business
operations of Panasonic Vietnam
Group.
In his speech, Mr. Nakamura said that
by this opening ceremony Panasonic
Vietnam will extend its business
activities scope in Vietnam as a
Planting ceremony strategy of Matsushita corporation.
At the opening ceremony, in the press conference, we also announced the
establishment of the Panasonic Research & Development Center. It was
actually established at the end of March 2007. With the new R&D center,
Panasonic Vietnam’s investment in Vietnam was increased to US$ 78 million.
By the end of this year it is expected to be US$960 million.
On this occasion, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Hanoi University of
Technology have contracted a partnership for educating software engineers.
Therefore, Panasonic will dispatch our engineers to Vietnam to support
Vietnamese students and the students will have practice in Japan before
returning in Vietnam to work.
We believe that with these efforts, Panasonic Vietnam as well as PCV will
have great success in the near future.

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VISIT OF MR. FUJIYOSHI AT

PCV
The visit of Mr. Fujiyoshi was on
the occasion of the Grand Opening
ceremony. During that time, Mr.
Fujiyoshi took the chance to visit
PCV’s factory, take a factory tour,
deliver a speech to all PCV’s
employees and have a meeting
with some key employees.

This was the 3rd time Mr. Fujiyoshi has visited Vietnam and was the first
time he had a talk with PCV’s employees. He expressed the expectation of
PCC on the development of PCV that PCV will be a focus of PCC together
with the factories in China and the Philippines.

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Job fair of Panasonic Vietnam Group

The Job fair of Panasonic Vietnam Group was held two time at Hanoi
University of Technology and Foreign trade University with the aim of
launching Panasonic’s image and looking for new graduated candidates
on 26th Mar and 15th Apr. Attending the job fair, there were so many
company in Thang Long Industrial Park as well as all companies of
Panasonic Vietnam Group. This was a good chance for us to select
qualified candidates from Universities for our vacant positions.

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Trade Union Establishment

Trade Union is essential in every
organization or company. For
that reason, PCV organized a
vote to pick up the members of
Trade Union from the
candidates on April 04.
The elected members had a
meeting in the afternoon to
prepare for the ceremony of
presenting the Trade Union in
June 2007 and to report to
HIPZA in August.
The members of PCV’s Trade Union are:
1. Nguyen Van Thien 3. Tran Anh Tu 5. Nguyen Thi Hoa
2. Nguyen Can Truong 4. Doan Thu Ha

Certificating Professional PBX soldering- the 2nd Time

As we know, the ceremony of granting PBX professional soldering was taken
place on 15th December 2006. There
are 12 persons who were certified. On
April 13, the 2nd ceremony of
certifying professional PBX was once
again granted to other production
members including members of SMT
line, Production line.
This training and certification is to
ensure good quality result of soldering
on PCV’s production line.

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New assembly line for In-house Manufacturing section

The first test production of the in-house manufacturing section was made on
Mar 27, 2007 when we received equipment for the injection molding line.
After the installation of equipment, the In-house manufacturing section is
making mass production now and waiting for the approval from PCC. It is
forecast that in May and June the members of the In-house manufacturing
section will increase to 20 persons. .

Installing the equipment

The first products

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5S AUDIT
In order to evaluate the performance of our 5S activities in FY06, on the
16th of April, a 5S audit was carried out by our Management level which are
the GMs of PCV’s groups. The audit was implemented totally in every
section from office to factory. Below are some pictures from this audit.

New recruitment stage

On the 14th of April, we held a test
for the candidates of 4th recruitment
stage and an interview and hand skill
test on the 17th of April. The
recruitment is for In-house section,
Device and Production section as
well.

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NEW MEMBER THIS MONTH:

In March and April 2007 we welcomed new members of Device Manufacturing group,
Procurement Group and ON Manufacturing group.

Yamaguchi Hideo Maeda Yoshihisa Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh

Manager- Device Manager- Device Chief- Contract-
Engineering Production Procurement

Nguyen Thi Tuyet Phuong Dang Xuan Loc Luong Thi Huong
Officer- PN Factory Leader- ON Officer- Device Quality
Engineering Production- SMT control

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