At the closing ceremony of the 8th ASEAN Skills Competition on November 23 in Bangkok, Thailand, the Vietnamese team came third with 7 gold, 3 silver, and 4 bronze medals and 11 certificates.

 The Ministry of Transport has submitted a transport development plan for the key southern economic region till 2020 and orientations for 2030 to the government.

Farmers in Tan Uyen district’s Tan Vinh Hiep commune have got animated with harvest after two months of implementing the project of subsidiary corps field with high economic value. They are very delighted as their subsidiary crops fields have reached hi-yield and quality.

Vietnamese goods are becoming more competitive as a number of foreign ship liners have recently opened direct cargo transportation routes from Vietnam to Europe.

A total of 176 Vietnamese and Spanish businesses are gathering at a forum on investment and business cooperation that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Nov. 23.

Discover the World Marketing, a global travel and marketing representation firm, has been chosen as a sales agent to sell cruise itineraries of Royal Caribbean International in and out of Asia in Vietnam as a potential market.

 The province’s program to stabilize market prices during and after the Tet festival 2010 has brought substantial efficiency.  Under the program, participating businesses got VND40bln in non-interest rate loan to reserve essential commodities at the local people’s demand for shopping during the Tet festival 2010. Although the prices of some commodities at the local markets are now on rise, there remains unchangeable at these businesses.

Since early this year, Phuoc Hoa Rubber Joint Stock Co. has exploited 15,623 tons of rubber latex or 72.6% of this year’s plan; purchased 9,448 tons of rubber latex from private rubber gardens; processed 24,522 tons of various finished products. The company has also sold 25,858 tons of finished products with the average selling price of more than VND60.9mln/ton, up 221 tons compared to last year’s same period. Workers herein have enjoyed the average income of VND5.5mln or VND5mln per capita per month.

It is essential to boost domestic production and encourage Vietnamese people to use Vietnamese goods to stabilise the macro-economy, said Minister of Industry and Trade, Vu Huy Hoang, at the National Assembly’s question & answer session in Hanoi on November 22.

On Nov.20, Binh Duong Garment One-Member Co.Ltd. received a delegation of leaders from Olymp Bezner GmbH&Co.KG on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the company. Accompanied with the delegation were the Minister, Major and parliamentary members of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany.

In the last months of the year, most of products are in price hike, including agricultural materials and fertilizer. At present, cultivation has entered main crops, so farmers have faced many difficulties.

On the agenda of the last conference evaluating capital construction in 2010 and plan for 2011 of Provincial People’s Committee was the focus on important establishments of municipal center, Thu Dau Mot University, My Phuoc-Tan Van route, BOT roads in Tan Uyen District, DT744, roads along Saigon River, etc.

Vietnam Furniture and Furnishing Fair (VIFA Home 2010) started on November 18 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh Exhibition & Convention Center, attracting 150 top enterprises with 400 stalls. Nearly 50 enterprises in Binh Duong joined the fair which is expected to draw about 100,000 turns of visitors. The fair will end on November 22.

On November 18, Binh Duong Customs introduced e-customs clearance program which promotes in-depth procedures with greater accuracy and reduction of work burden. Participants highly appreciate the proposed program but accepted the fact that the new program will be implemented while being improved.

The local department of Trade and Industry of just summed up the program of “Week of Vietnamese goods” taking Vietnamese goods to rural areas to cater for people in districts of Tan Uyen, Phu Giao, Ben Cat and Dau Tieng. Possibly speaking, through the market days, businesses have positively spread their products and trademarks to rural customers and encouraged the public to respond the mobilization of “Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods”.