Accordingly, in the first six months of this year, the provincial Union of Science and Technology Associations reached many achievements in disseminating knowledge on science and technology, the Party and State’s instruction on science and technology.

At the conference, leaders of the department reported implementation situation of every unit and petitioned issues relating to trade and industry work. The event also focused on assessing results in the first half of this year and set out the remaining missions in this year.

Many difficulties

Becoming a central city

One reason for the growing purchase of Vietnamese products is that they are sold at lower prices than those made in France, such as household appliances, garments, footwear, mobile phones, and engineering tools.

Eleven commodities earned more than 1 billion USD from exports in the first half of 2013, according to latest data.

Sora Gardens I is under Sora Gardens project launched on 3 stages. This is the first project of Tokyu Binh Duong Garden City begun in March 2012 with the total capital of over US$1.2bil. Sora Gardens I includes over 400 apartments. Once completed, Sora Gardens I will be one of high class apartments under the Japanese standards. The project will be expectedly completed by Oct. 2014.

Vietnam expects to earn US$1 billion from exporting dragon fruit to the US market by the end of this year.

As a flexible locality with strong development in socio-economic fields, Thuan An town has absorbed a large number of immigrant laborers from provinces and cities nationwide. The town has also taken many measures to promote trade-services at people’s demand for shopping and entertainment…

Tan Uyen district’s Women’s Union mobilized many different sources to provide 1,497 women with more than VND10bln in loan to develop their homebased business for a stable life in the first half of the year.

On the occasion of Vietnam Family Day, Binh Duong-based Vietcombank branch (or called Vietcombank Binh Duong), on June 28, visited and presented gifts to 81 elderly people who are being cared at provincial Social Support Center (photo).