Despite a tough year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the national wood sector looks set to achieve its export turnover target of 12 billion USD, and some wood processing businesses have so many orders while they are in short of workers to complete them, according to the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (Vietforest).
Chinese furniture maker Kuka Home on September 3 signed a contract to rent over 12ha at Dong Xoai III Industrial Park in the southern province of Binh Phuoc to build an interior decoration wooden furniture manufacturing plant.
Chairman of the National Council (Upper House) of Bhutan Tashi Dorji arrived in Hanoi on May 10 evening to begin his official visit to Vietnam from May 11-14 at the invitation of National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
Chairman of the National Council (Upper House) of Bhutan Tashi Dorji will pay an official visit to Vietnam from May 11-14, the Vietnamese National Assembly’s Committee for External Affairs has announced.
Vietnamese Ambassador to India, Nepal and Bhutan Pham Sanh Chau presented his credentials to the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, in the country’s Thimphu capital city on January 4.
It is forecast that Vietnam’s total workforce will near 54.26 million people in the third quarter of this year, up 0.44 percent from the previous quarter and 0.91 percent annually.
The industrial production index (IPI) of Hanoi in the first five months of this year expanded 7.7 percent year-on-year, the municipal People’s Committee reported.
The national index of industrial production (IIP) posted a year-on-year increase of 7.3 percent in the first four months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The southern region has received 1.7 billion USD worth of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first quarter of 2016, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency
An investment certificate was granted to a Japanese-invested company with a multi-million USD wooden furniture manufacturing project in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province on November 5.
Experts months ago warned that the domestic animal husbandry would “die
young” as Australian beef was flooding the Vietnamese market. However,
they have had a change of opinion as some businesspeople with powerful
financial capability and new business strategies have committed to pour
capital into the sector, said the English language news portal
VietNamNet Bridge.
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