The Vietnam Suzuki Corporation has just started work on the construction of an automobile plant at Long Binh industrial zone, located in the southern province of Dong Nai .

Covering an area of 159,000 sq. m, the facility will be built at a cost of over 13 million USD and become operational in early 2013.

As scheduled, it will produce 5,000 automobiles in the first year of operation and between 10,000 and 20,000 units in the following years.-VNA