Eighty foreign-invested businesses from various sectors were presented with the Golden Dragon Award in Hanoi on January 23 for their excellent business performances in 2010.

Becamex trademark of Becamex IDC Corp. has spread many countries and territories. Over the past 30 years, Becamex IDC Corp. has made prestige through large-scaled projects for the sake of local socio-economic development. After re-establishment of Binh Duong province in 1997, Becamex IDC Corp. focused on industrial infrastructure development, traffic and urban network. Many experts assessed that Becamex IDC is a tireless initiator for local renewal.

 The Vietnam Industry Construction Group (VNIC) will soon carry out many electricity projects including the Nam Chien, Xeekaman3, Bac Ha, Ngoi Hut, Supan 3, Tra Xom, and Nam Khanh Hydroelectric Power Plants.

World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership has brought mixed blessings for the country's agricultural sector, according to officials.

 Vietnamese businesses should pay more attention to scientific research and technology development in order to expand their business operations.

Supermarkets have become channels for stabilizing market prices and effective distribution of Vietnamese goods. Customers are joyful with major discount 10 to 40% across supermarkets.

Minh Long I Co. Ltd. officially signed a contract to supply dining utensils on business class flights of Vietnam Airlines by the midterm of 2011.

On January 20, Vietcombank Binh Duong held a ceremony to inaugurate its 5th transaction office or VSIP Office at No. 24 Binh Duong Avenue, Lai Thieu Town, Thuan An District. Director of Vietcombank Binh Duong informed that the new office would bring bank services closer to customers. On the occasion, Vietcombank Binh Duong offered 40 packages of scholarship at the cost of VND 40 million to poor but studious school children in Thuan An.

A business delegation from Ho Chi Minh City recently attended the Asia-US business conference and fair held in Pomona city of California State, to seek business opportunities in the US market.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet held a reception for Chief Financial Officer for Shell’s Global Future Fuels, Simon Henry at the Presidential Palace, Hanoi on January 20.

Dau Tieng Rubber Corporation, on Jan.20, forwarded a conference to sum up its activities in 2010 and design orientations, tasks for 2011.

Along with other economic sectors, local FDI attraction in 2010 reached remarkable results. Notably, aside from FDI increase bases on firmness, investors consider Binh Duong an attractive destination.

Many promotion programs have been launched by province-based supermarkets to absorb the attention of customers for shopping for the 2011 lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

There, in the solitary border area of Lang Son province, luxury products, like iPhones or Nokia X7, E71, E72 or E75 are numerous and sold easily like bunches of vegetable. However, all are counterfeit goods.

From the beginning of the year, taking advantage of favorable weather, vegetable farmers continue to grow more crops preparing for the coming Tet holiday. In the meantime, purchase prices of vegetables are relatively high at the moment imposed on salad, bitter melon, egg plant, doc mung (Night-scented Lily), etc. averagely from VND 4,000 to VND 6,000 per kilogram.