In 2025, Tay Ninh’s economy maintained strong growth momentum, with gross regional domestic product (GRDP) expanding by 9.52%, ranking eighth among 34 provinces and cities nationwide.
Dong Thap province’s fishing fleet operates mainly in the Ba Dong, Vung Tau and South Con Son fishing grounds, with about 60% of vessels having large capacity sufficient to venture into deep-sea areas. To date, 1,291 vehicles have been licensed, equipped with vessel monitoring systems (VMS), and had their data fully updated on the national fisheries database (Vnfishbase).
Effective utilisation of its advantages in geography, logistics and supporting industries is creating fresh growth momentum, while opening up new opportunities for sustainable development as the province enters a period of strong transformation.
Located at the highest point on the summit of Ba Den Mountain, the Konagamana Buddha Statue is cast in red copper and finished with 24k gold gilding. The statue stands 7.2 metres tall, depicting the Buddha seated in full lotus posture on a lotus pedestal set amid Udumbara Lake, shimmering with golden lotus blossoms. The Buddha’s right hand forms a teaching mudra, symbolising the period of preaching in the Buddha’s life, while the left hand holds a fig fruit an image associated with the path to awakening beneath the Udumbara (stands for fig) tree.
The recent mergers of provinces and cities have opened up new development space and provided a strong boost to FDI attraction across the southern key economic region.
A flagship initiative is the Model Farm/Experimental Farm (DemoFarm) project, which will introduce advanced cultivation techniques tailored to local soil conditions.
During 34 days of operations in Cambodia (November 6–December 10, 2025), the search teams recovered 180 sets of remains: 16 by Team K70, 140 by Team K71, and 24 by Team K73.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged the southern province of Tay Ninh to capitalise on its current border gates to become a regional and global connectivity hub.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet on December 8 co-chaired the inauguration of the Tan Nam–Meun Chey international border gate pair, linking Tay Ninh province of Vietnam with Cambodia’s Prey Veng province.
Tay Ninh holds a strategic position along the East–West Economic Corridor, acting as a key gateway linking Cambodia with ASEAN. With nearly 369 km of shared border, an extensive network of border gates and a robust system of industrial zones, the province has sustained GRDP growth of 9.52%—the highest in Việt Nam’s southeast—and attracted over 1,952 FDI projects worth 24.5 billion USD.
The southern province of Tay Ninh is seeking to attract greater Japanese investment into green hydrogen and renewable-energy technology, as provincial leaders met with a delegation from Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) and Obayashi Corporation on November 26.
Tay Ninh currently hosts 176 Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with a combined capital of more than 1.26 billion USD.
The Vietnam–Cambodia Border Defence Friendship Exchange contributed to building a Vietnam–Cambodia border line of peace, friendship, stability, cooperation and development, reinforcing political trust and directly promoting the friendship and solidarity between the two nations.
The project, with KECO serving as a technical consultant, aims to strengthen integrated waste management, develop effective systems for classification, collection and recycling, and enhance public awareness of turning waste into resources, thus contributing to a cleaner and more sustainable Tay Ninh.
Many Party members and officials in the southern province of Tay Ninh have been giving their opinions on the draft documents of 14th National Party Congress, highlighting the content on development of human resources as a breakthrough in realising rapid, sustainable development goals for the 2025-2030 period.
Leveraging its position as a gateway linking the Southeast and Mekong Delta regions, Tay Ninh province is asserting its role as a strategic hub in expanding agricultural supply chains to Muslim markets, especially the Middle East and Africa, which have emerged as promising destinations for Vietnamese agricultural exports, particularly Halal-certified products.
Following the first edition held in Vietnam’s former Binh Phuoc province and Cambodia’s Kratie province in 2022, this year’s event is one of the key diplomatic activities of the two countries’ defence ministries and militaries in 2025.
Tay Ninh is gradually asserting its new position on Vietnam’s tourism map by capitalizing on its rich natural and cultural assets such as Ba Den Mountain, Dau Tieng Lake, and a diverse system of historical and cultural sites. At the same time, the province is promoting sustainable growth through the diversification of tourism products, laying the groundwork for long-term, balanced, and eco-friendly development.
With its picturesque landscapes and rich cultural heritage, Tay Ninh is emerging as a promising tourism hotspot in Vietnam.
Since 2001, Tay Ninh has located and repatriated 8,627 sets of remains, including 8,621 individual graves and six mass graves containing about 280 sets of remains.