Over the past three years, Binh Duong province actively implemented a development program for agriculture, farmers and rural farmers, or called “Tam Nong” development program and gained good results…

The European Union (EU) officially removed anti-dumping duties on leather-capped shoes imported from Vietnam on April 1, said the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

From April 1, enterprises qualified for self-printing VAT invoices under government’s Decree No. 51 and Tax General Department’s Circular No. 153 and No. 13 for invoicing sales of goods and services. By April 1, according to Tax General Department, 400 enterprises in Binh Duong are unable to print invoices by themselves; however, in interview with Binh Duong Newspaper, Mr. Vo Long Hai – Deputy Chief of Information Office of Binh Duong Tax Department – said that 100 enterprises fail to self print VAT invoices. The local department is, however, committed to measures ensuring the use of self-printed invoices.

With ambition of breeding strange animals, Hoang Thanh in quarter 9, Phu Loi ward, Thu Dau Mot town has set up a general farm model of breeding strange animals.

Vietnam targets to raise the proportion of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)’s value to GDP from 8-10 percent.

HSBC Vietnam, on March 30, officially announced its financial report in 2010. Accordingly, HSBC Vietnam last year reached more than VND4.79bln in total lending turnover. Thanks to this, the bank’s pre-tax profit was more than VND1.4trillion, a year-on-year increase of VND389bln.

The provincial People’s Committee chairman Le Thanh Cung jus paid a visit to Phu An bamboo village, a work under the cooperation of Binh Duong Province, France’s Rhone Alpes Region, the Pilat Natural Park of France and Ho Chi Minh City’s University of Natural Sciences.

Binh Duong Environment and Water Supply Company started a construction on waste water treatment plant under South Binh Duong water environment improvement project at quarter 6, Phu Tho ward, Thu Dau Mot town.

Steel prices have suddenly dropped by VND200,000 or VND500,000 per ton after increasing many times since early this year. The Vietnam Steel Association is predicted that steel prices will continue seeing fluctuations as the steel consumption market is going down. In southern Binh Duong province, a staff of Thang Loi Steel Enterprises said that the prices of various steel products saw considerable decrease last week.

 Early March 29, Yong Ho Vina Construction Co.Ltd. held a ceremony to inaugurate its steel factory in the Bau Bang Industrial Park (IP).

Vietnam’s agroforestry and fisheries value is estimated at 5.4 billion USD in the first quarter of 2011, a year-on-year rise of 33.3 percent, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The country’s economy saw complicated changes in Q1 2011. But, thanks to the efforts of the local authorities, Binh Duong province’s socio-economic performance has still further maintained positive growth.

U&I Farm JSC (Unifarm) is the province’s first business granted a certificate for Good Agricultural Practice – Global GAP by Centre for Quality Certification (Quacert).

A seminar entitled “Japanese companies’ experiences on keeping talents” was co-held by Bac My Education Corp. and local Job Center and SNI JSC on March 26.

 Retail sales GDP and turnover have increased considerably in recent years, however, more premises for the retail market are necessary to meet the increasing demand.