The corporation is also considering building an economic complex in Van Phong area with total investment capital of US$16 billion.

Director of Britain’s Dorman Long Technology has worked with the Dong Nai provincial People’s Committee and conducted a survey of a project to build a bridge linking HCMC’s District 9 with Nhon Trach district in Dong Nai.

Since late July, delegations from the Lao province of Salavan, the Russian province of Yaroslav, the Thai province of Ubon Ratchathani have paid visits to central Da Nang city to discuss comprehensive cooperation in tourism, agriculture, transportation, shipbuilding, electricity supply, and trade services.

The northern province of Bac Ninh has attracted an additional 13 foreign-invested projects capitalised at more than US$128 million. Japan’s Canon Corporation has so far invested US$130 million in building factories in Que Vo and Tien Son industrial zones.

The German Reconstruction Bank has decided to provide an additional 663 million euros to grow 2,300 hectares of forests in Ba Che district, 960 ha in Dong Trieu district and 960 ha in Tien Yen district respectively in the provinces of Bac Giang, Quang Ninh and Lang Son. The financial support is part of the Vietnam-German Afforestation Project.

Meanwhile, the An Giang provincial People’s Committee and the Tourism Ministry of Cambodia have met to discuss tourism cooperation opportunities such as offering tours by road and sea. Cambodia has created favourable conditions for tourism companies in An Giang province to do business in the country and has granted entry visas to tourists at the border gates of Phnom Dinh-Tinh Bien and OM Sa No-Vinh Xuong as well as at the Chray Thum-Khanh Binh border gate in the near future.