The southern province of Binh Duong and Gangnam district of the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Seoul city signed a strategic cooperation agreement via videoconference on January 6 to promote international trade and cultural exchange activities.
The southern province of Binh Duong, one of the localities hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic last year, will make great efforts to achieve targets set for 2021-2025, with annual economic growth set at 8.5 percent.
With its import and export values growing 14.7 and 13.5 percent year-on-year to hit 24.6 and 31.5 billion USD in 2021, respectively, the southern province of Binh Duong recorded a trade surplus at 6.8 billion USD.
Becamex Tokyu Co. Ltd, a joint venture between Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corp and Japan’s Tokyu Corporation, began construction of the first shopping centre named Sora Gardens SC in Binh Duong New City in the southern province of Binh Duong on December 28.
The US’s Warburg Pincus plans to implement a cross-border e-commerce project in Binh Duong province – a magnet for FDI in the south of Vietnam, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
A three-day conference to help link up producers and buyers of agricultural, forestry and seafood products goods is being held in southern Binh Duong province with more than 100 businesses in attendance.
The People’s Committee of southern Binh Duong province held an online conference on November 30 to call for investment from Japan, attracting representatives of about 100 Japanese enterprises.
The technique to make Can wine, a type of wine stored in a big jar and drunk with long bamboo straws, of S’Tieng ethnic minority group in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage in terms of folk knowledge and traditional craft.
Many Thai businesses are interested in the dynamic development of the southern province of Binh Duong over the past years, Minister Counsellor from the Thai Office of the Board of Investment Audsitti Sroithong said at a teleconference held by the People’s Committee of Binh Duong and Becamex IDC on November 23 to call for investment from Thailand.
The southern province of Binh Duong attracted 59 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in the first 10 months of this year, a local official told a conference on November 19.
The People’s Committee of Binh Duong southern province on November 11 asked industrial parks in the province to support COVID-19 testing and inoculation for those who want to return to work.
An online conference to promote investment from the Republic of Korea in the southern province of Binh Duong was held by the provincial People’s Committee and Becamex IDC Corp on November 9.