Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces have allocated big budgets to provide aid for disadvantaged people and factory workers ahead of the upcoming Tet, Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year holiday.
A ceremony was held in Long Khanh Industrial Zone in southern Dong Nai province on January 5 for exporting the first batch of processed fruits to Europe, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Japan, Russia and the Middle East.
The southern province of Dong Nai has approved three routes worth about 19.6 trillion VND (858 million USD) linking localities with Long Thanh International Airport.
Police in the southern province of Dong Nai on December 28 arrested three men and a woman for their involvement in trafficking in persons, organising illegal migration and bringing persons abroad for prostitution.
Handover of land for Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai must be completed next June, Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh ordered at a meeting with relevant ministries and the provincial People’s Committee held via video teleconference on December 9.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has requested Long Thanh International Airport project to be accelerated so that its first phase could be completed in January 2025.
Industrial parks in the southern province of Dong Nai attracted 46 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth 358.85 million USD from the beginning of this year to November 11.
Businesses in southern Dong Nai province have called for reducing bank interest rates and restructuring debt repayment to enable them to resume operations now that the COVID-19 pandemic is basically under control.
Vietnam recorded 7,491 infections of COVID-19, including 11 imported cases, in 55 localities in the past 24 hours to 4pm on November 6, according to the Ministry of Health.
Up to 97 percent of enterprises in the southern province of Dong Nai have to date resumed operations, with 86 percent of labourers returning to work, according to the Dong Nai Industrial Parks Management Board.
Dong Nai has attracted 1.1 billion USD to nearly 140 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects since the start of this year, according to the Industrial Zones Authority of this southern province (DIZA).
Nearly 1,450 enterprises in industrial parks in the southern province of Dong Nai have resumed operations with over 426,000 labourers working in the form of “three-on-site” or going home daily, said deputy head of the provincial IPs management board Le Van Danh on October 18.
There are nearly 1,400 firms or over 80 percent of those operating in 31 industrial parks in the southern province of Dong Nai have resumed their operations, according to the provincial Industrial Zones Authority.
The southern province of Dong Nai has agreed with Ho Chi Minh City's proposal on allowing labourers to travel between the two localities by their private cars.
The southern industrial hub of Dong Nai has asked for favourable conditions for experts and workers to arrive in Dong Nai for working as the province is resuming production and business operations in the context that COVID-19 has been put under good control.
The Ministry of Transport has received the proposal to approve a project on expanding Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway which will be partly funded with loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
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