Rural areas in the northern province of Hung Yen have undergone drastic changes after 12 years implementing the national target programme on building new-style rural areas. The province is continuing with efforts to maintain and further improve the living conditions in rural areas.
Investment attraction in industrial parks (IPs) in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau showed signs of slowing down in the first quarter this year, reported the management board of the provincial IPs.
Investors and contractors have been told to strictly uphold traffic safety, and occupational safety and health measures at transport infrastructure construction projects, according to a recent directive issued by the Ministry of Transport.
Indonesia will speed up the infrastructure construction of its future capital city (IKN) Nusantara to attract more investors, said Indonesian Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimuljono.
The Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (VICEM) will ship a total of 6 million tonnes of cement and clinker to the Philippines from 2023-2025, as its demand for construction materials of various kinds is huge.
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh lured 13 investment projects worth nearly 10.3 trillion VND (over 446.5 million USD) in the first five months of 2021, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Indonesian Finance Ministry’s Fiscal Policy Agency (BKF) has said the country needs over 6.44 quadrillion IDR (460 billion USD) for infrastructure construction between now and 2024.
According to the Thai government’s plan, the traffic infrastructure under-construction in the North-Eastern region will be a key tool to stimulate the economy, especially tourism and border trade, bringing benefits to people in the area.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on December 18 that he had ordered his Cabinet to speed up a 32.79 billion USD project to move the capital city from Jakarta to Borneo island so that the new "Silicon Valley"-like city could be ready by 2023, a year earlier than the government's original estimate.
Trade and investment ties between Vietnam and India are not commensurate with their potential, meaning there is still a lot of room for them to grow, the India-Vietnam Business Forum heard in Ho Chi Minh City on August 21.
Ho Chi Minh City hopes that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will continue to help the city deal with challenges in urban transport, infrastructure construction and waste treatment, thus ensuring sustainable development, a local official said on August 12.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hanoi Nguyen Duc Chung had a meeting in Hanoi on July 15 with Stephanie Do, a French National Assembly deputy and head of the France – Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group.
Representatives from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and Pacific Construction Group Company Limited (Pacific Group) of China met on June 27 in HCM City to discuss the possibility of cooperation in urban infrastructure development.
Singaporean Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced the launch of Infrastructure Asia at the eighth Asia-Singapore Infrastructure Roundtable on October 23.
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is devising measures to prevent coastal erosion, which has become more serious due to climate change and socio-economic activities.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh lauded Japan’s support for Vietnam’s socio-economic development, economic restructuring and infrastructure construction.
Foreign investments, including those made by Japanese firms, are an important driving force for Vietnam’s socio-economic development and improvement of the national competitive capacity, said President Tran Dai Quang.
About 31.4 trillion VND (1.38 billion USD) was used in building new-style rural areas in 2017, heard a conference held by the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development on January 8.
As many as 2,884 communes or 32.3 percent of communes nationwide were recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of November 2017, surpassing the target of at least 31 percent.
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