In his visit to southern Binh Duong province one year ago, Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh visited the Party Committee of Di An district and chatted with cadres of the district (photo). He advised the Party Committee to well realize personnel development and pay more attention to laborers’ material and spiritual lives.

Manh Son Farm Investment Co.Ltd. , or called Chin Dinh wild boar farm, will open a modern slaughter house for wild boars, the first of its kind in Binh Duong province.

Tavico Timber Co. has just inaugurated its first wood and furniture supermarket in Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province.

The Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank) announced on July 15 that it has put together a credit package to support Vietnamese exporters to Cambodia and Cambodian businesses that import Vietnamese goods.

At the honoring conference for excellent workgroups and individuals in the two emulation movements of “Innovation, development, effective enhancement of cooperatives” and “cooperatives pioneer in poverty reduction and new rural building”, Nhat Hung Rubber Cooperative in Tan Uyen district’s Tan Binh commune affirmed its new model of cooperative economy.

On the occasion of the 19th founding anniversary of Maritime Bank, the bank has launched a promotion program for its clients. The program is extended across the bank’s transactional sites nationwide till Oct. 9, 2010.

In the face of fast growing of urbanization, Binh Duong province’s agricultural sector has made new development steps to become modernized by 2020 as planned by the sector.

After 5 years of implementing resolutions of the 8th provincial Party Congress (2005-2010), local economy keeps on growing with the increase in service density, stability in industry density and decrease in agriculture density. Investment attraction has exceeded the proposed goals and infrastructure structure has been invested modernly.

Grand Plaza, the first international standard trading centre in Hanoi, was inaugurated at 117 Tran Duy Hung street on July 17.

Di An district’s Project Management Board has just held a ceremony to inaugurate An Binh Junior High School in An Binh commune.

 Mrs.Trang Hue Lan, deputy general editor of Binh Duong Newspaper and Mr. Nguyen Quang Hue, vice director of Southern Prudential Vietnam grant scholarships to needy students. Life insurer Prudential Vietnam just held a festive day for clients in the participation of 150 clients and insurance agents across province. After 10 years of operation in Vietnam, Prudential Vietnam has become a leading life insurer in the country and been the country’s first foreign insurer appearing in all provinces and cities of Vietnam. Its products account 40% of life insurance market share in Vietnam. In 2009, Prudential Vietnam reached a total turnover of VND6,805bil.

The European Union delegation to Vietnam has disbursed EUR13 million (US$16.5 million) to support the implementation of Vietnam’s Socio Economic Development Plan (SEDP) in the 2006-2010 period.

Over the past five years, provincial Farmers’ Society teamed up with provincial Alliances of Cooperatives at all levels to open 41 training courses for its 2,369 officials and members.

Asia’s leading publication on finance and banking, FinanceAsia, has named HSBC Vietnam the best foreign bank in 2010 for the fifth consecutive year.

In the first half of 2010, the province’s woodwork export turnover reached more than US$603mln, increasing by 14.1% compared to the same period last year and accounting for 17.6% of the province’s total export turnover.