The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is implementing plans to build three industrial zones with a total area of 1,400 hectares. They are O Mon (600ha), O Mon Bac (400ha), and Thot Not (400ha).

Prof. Dr. Tran Hoang Ngan granted VOV online an exclusive interview on the country’s economic situation in 2013, analyzing its difficulties, challenges, and opportunities.

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In 2012, Binh Duong absorbed US$2.6bln in FDI capital. This figure also helped Binh Duong take lead in FDI attraction, contributing to reshaping the local image over the past time and it was also a result of the local preparatory process of   welcoming investors from many previous years.

Robert Li, vice general director of Liwayway Vietnam JSC, said "We want to be part of Binh Duong in the future".

In 2012, import and export environment in the province still increased from the previous year. Specifically, the number of customs declaration sheets increased 12.53%, export and import turnover rose 20.32% and so on.

The program “Joining hands for the community” is being launched by provincial Young Entrepreneurs Association to bring “small springs” to the poor, lonely elderly, policy beneficiary families, workers living away from home…on the days near the Tet (lunar New Year) festival 2013. Although gifts from the program are small, they bear a great significance expressing the local young entrepreneurs’ responsibility to the community in the current difficult economic situation. The Di An branch of provincial Young Entrepreneurs Association presenting Tet gifts to the poor

Locally-made sweets and candy are gaining more popularity by the day, especially with Tet shoppers. At most of the traditional markets in the province now are stocked with a variety of inexpensive local made commodities, thanks to an improved quality of many bakeries across the country.

Many collective economic units reinforced and paid much attention to improving production and business for the sake of effective operation. In the past year, the province had 16 more newly-established cooperatives, totaling cooperatives up to 111 with 48,408 members.

 Provinces in Vietnam ’s Mekong Delta plan to export 650,000 tonnes of tra fish this year, earning the region an expected 1.7–2 billion USD.

Forecasts are confidently predicting the EU market’s promise for Vietnamese goods in 2013 as both sides maintain their traditionally stable relationship and intensify their efforts towards the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

New Choice Foods Co.Ltd. is a wholly foreign owned enterprise. On February 1, 2007, it was established and put into operation in the Vietnam-Singapore II Industrial Park in TDM city’s Hoa Phu ward with a total investment capital of US$2mln, specializing in various fruit-flavored jelly products for domestic market.   Laborers at New Choice Foods Co.Ltd. working with industry and cleverness on the first days of 2013