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The southern province of Dong Nai has welcomed 440 million USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) and 30 billion VND (1.34 million USD) from domestic investors so far this year.

Bien Hoa city in Dong Nai province on February 3 held a ceremony to receive the Prime Minister’s decision recognising the city as first-grade urban area under the province’s management.

Dong Nai province has set the goal of completing the programme on building new-style rural areas by 2020, bringing the rate of communes meeting criteria to 80 percent from the current 68 percent.

As many as 200 overseas Vietnamese (OV) and their relatives joined a cozy Tet (Lunar New Year) gathering in the southern province of Dong Nai on January 26.

The People's Committee of Dong Nai province has proposed to extend HCM City's first metro route Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien to 4.7 kilometres to reach the Vung Tau intersection in Bien Hoa city.

A Dong Nai-based maker of Banh Chung – a type of traditional rice cake for New Year celebrations – has completed procedures to ship abroad 40 tonnes of the cake to serve the Overseas Vietnamese.

Nearly 400 FDI companies in the southern province of Dong Nai have increased their minimum monthly wages by about 500,000 VND (22.3 USD) for each worker on average.

Wood export in the southern province of Dong Nai totaled 1.2 billion USD in 2015, up 17 percent from 2014, according to the provincial Statistics Office.

More than 200 people took part in an exercise to deal with oil spill and fires on Dong Nai River, the southern province of Dong Nai, on December 31.

A pilot concentrated livestock production zone was inaugurated in Thong Nhat district, Dong Nai province on Dec. 28, the first of its kind to be funded by the World Bank in Vietnam.

The southern province of Dong Nai has introduced a myriad of measures to achieve a Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) growth rate of 8-9 percent in 2016.

The cheerful atmosphere of Christmas has filled the rural parishes in the southern province of Dong Nai, which is home to nearly one million Catholic followers.

The Dong Nai Province Radio and Television Station (DNTV) will broadcast a documentary series featuring friendship ties between Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) registered in southern Dong Nai province hit 2.4 billion USD as of November 20, exceeding expectations and this year's target of 1.5 billion USD.