Binh Duong Water Supply Co. under Becamex IDC yesterday held a 2011 congress for employees. Reportedly, the company in the past year reached a total revenue of VND410bil, a 39% rise from 2009, a pre-tax profit of VND51.6bil. In the past year, the company directorate and trade union made greater efforts to improve employees’ spiritual and material life.

Province-based supermarkets and trade centers have so far fulfilled their plans to stockpile Tet commodities. Meanwhile, small traders at province-based traditional markets have not yet dared getting involved in stockpiling of Tet commodities because of many worries.

In 2010, the whole province built and upgraded 456 rural roads of more than 300km with a total expense of more than VND215mln.

In 2010, the whole province built and upgraded 456 rural roads of more than 300km with a total expense of more than VND215mln.

  Oil and gas services set a record of raking in 152.5 trillion VND in revenues in 2010, representing a year-on-year increase of 58 percent and accounting for 32 percent of the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam)’s total turnover.

In 2010, Binh Duong province’s business community made great contributions to the common achievements of the province. With their good preparation plus the State’s macroscopic measures, province-based businesses are very confident to overcome challenges to fulfill the set targets for 2011.

 Vietnam’s overseas investment capital is estimated to reach 1.5-2 billion USD in 2011, of which 700-900 billion USD expected to be disbursed, said an official of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

In 2010, exports are estimated to hit US$71.6 billion, an increase of 25.5 percent over 2009 and imports reached US$84 billion, up by 20 percent. Thus exports and imports set new records while trade deficit was reduced by 5.2 percent compared to 2009.

 Vietnam’s exports to Hong Kong reached nearly 1.779 billion USD in the 11 months of this year, up 59.8 percent over the same period last year, according to the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

For Binh Duong people, the time of re-establishment of Binh Duong province 14 years ago is unforgettable. The historic time created a new page for the locality to make exploits of today.

Deputy PM Nguyen Thien Nhan just signed a decision on granting the 2010 National Quality Award to excellent businesses in production and business, increasing the quality of made-in-Vietnam products and services and raising their competitive edge in the global market integration. Accordingly, the whole country has 11 businesses being granted golden prizes and 85 others being offered silver ones.

On December 28, Binh Duong Customs joined VCCI-Ho Chi Minh City Branch and provincial club for import and export in a direct dialogue with enterprises. Representatives of Taiwanese entrepreneurs and many other enterprises have participated into the event involving issues of importation, declaration and so on.

 A total of 80 Vietnamese and Thai businesses operating in various areas participated in a trade fair and exchange in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 28.

Nearly 300 local companies will showcase their products at the Tet Shopping Fair to be held at the Phu Tho Indoor Sports Stadium in HCM City's District 11 on January 21.

Nguyen The Hung, deputy director of the Center for Southern Foreign Investment under the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Department made the state when mentioning Binh Duong’s FDI attraction in 2010 and improvement of investment climate over the past time. He said: “For a long time, Binh Duong has always taken the lead in competitive ability regarding investment climate. The most important things for the result is the high determination of provincial leaders and administration agencies…