(Saigon Times Daily - March 11, 2009) - The sight-impaired patients received free treatment and operations on Tuesday at the hospital under the program “Bring Sight to the Poor Blind” which is a charity program supported by the HCMC Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients and the Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company and runs until June. Dai-ichi Life will sponsor 500 eye operations in HCMC and some other provinces for people blinded by cataracts at a total cost of VND350 million

(Vietnam Investment Review - February 16, 2009) - Early in 2007, Japanese life insurer Dai-ichi officially entered Vietnam's life insurance market by acquiring the joint venture Bao Minh-CMG, an unprecedented transaction in Vietnam's life insurance market. Takashi Fujii, Dai-ichi Life Vietnam's general director, talks with VIR's Vu Giang about the challenges and opportunities in the past two years and the future market prospects.

(The Saigon Times Daily - February 12, 2009) - The global economic downturn has dealt a blow to many life insurance companies worldwide. In an interview with the Daily, Dai-ichi Life Vietnam’s general director Takashi Fujii said he believed the domestic life insurance sector would continue growing at a projected double-digit rate this year.