(VEN) - In 2013, the global economy is not really stable, causing considerable impacts on activities to attract investment into industrial zones in Vietnam and Dong Nai Province in particular. However, Dong Nai Province has taken specific solutions and achieved positive results. Its Loc An-Binh Son Industrial Park has successfully attracted domestic and foreign investors. Mr. Pham Quoc Vuong, Director of the VRG-Long Thanh Investment and Development Joint Stock Company, said: "Thanks to the unique advantages of the Loc An-Binh Son IZ and Dong Nai People's Committee's policy to create an open investment environment, the efforts of the Management Board of DongNai IZs and especially VRG-Long Thanh, in the first two quarters of this year, we attracted four investment projects of domestic and foreign corporations such as those from the Republic of Korea, Japan and the US. All the four projects have been granted investment certificates. Of these, the shoe factory project of the Chang Shin … [Read more...] about Loc An-Binh Son Industrial Zone: Dong Nai’s attractive investment prospects
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Female workers in Dong Nai, Binh Duong benefit from reproductive healthcare project
VietNamNet Bridge - The three-year project on advancing social and economic development of female migrant workers through gender-sensitive initiatives has successfully been completed in the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai. The EU-funded project, which was implemented by Marie Stopes International Vietnam (MSI) from 2013 through 2015, brought practical benefits to female workers in factories in Binh Duong and Dong Nai. Why was the project launched? Surveys conducted in 2013 at some factories in Binh Duong and Dong Nai showed that among 100,000 female migrant workers, many of them had poor knowledge, attitudes, and practice of reproductive health protection. Some 41.9% responded that they were afraid/very afraid to use contraceptive methods and 28.6% had never attended any gynecological examinations or received any reproductive health care services. The majority of clinics at factories did not supply reproductive health care services, and until recently Corporate … [Read more...] about Female workers in Dong Nai, Binh Duong benefit from reproductive healthcare project
Dong Nai strives to become industrial province by 2015
(VEN) - Vietnam Economic News' Van Trong & Minh Ngoc talked with Chairman of Dong Nai Province People's Committee Dinh Quoc Thai about the province's socio-economic achievements obtained in the first nine months of this year as well as tasks, targets and solutions in the 2013-2015 period, a critical period for Dong Nai's orientation to become an industrialized and modernized province by 2015. Can you give your evaluations on Dong Nai's socioeconomic developments and investment attraction in the first nine months of 2013? Despite the variations in the domestic and global economies having negative impacts on the implementation of our tasks and goals, Dong Nai has made positive changes in the local socioeconomic developments with high concentration, good coordination and the efforts of the political system, the business community and people. The province recorded gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 11.13 percent year on year to reach VND35.722 trillion, equal to 69.6 … [Read more...] about Dong Nai strives to become industrial province by 2015
Controversial Dong Nai 5 and Dong Nai 6A hydropower projects rejected
VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of hydropower projects, including Dong Nai 6 and 6A, the two projects had caused many mixed opinions about the environmental impacts, will be removed from the national hydropower development plan. VRN petitions to reject Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A hydropower plant projects Dong Nai Province objects to hydropower plants Dong Nai 6 and 6A hydro-power projects: Where is the truth? The information was released by the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment, at the 7th plenary meeting to examine the government report on reviewing the hydropower development master plan in Hanoi on October 26. This report will be submitted to the National Assembly this morning, October 30. The government reported that it has approved the removal of six potential large and 418 small hydropower projects from the national plan. These plants are deemed to have low effectiveness while likely to cause negative environmental and social impacts. The … [Read more...] about Controversial Dong Nai 5 and Dong Nai 6A hydropower projects rejected
Local authorities, experts disagree on new urban area on Dong Nai River
VietNamNet Bridge – Environmentalists and the Dong Nai provincial authorities are in dispute about a project to build a new urban area on part of Dong Nai River. Related news Dong Nai River housing project should be cancelled The provincial People’s Committee has released a document affirming that the project will “not affect the Dong Nai River’s flow, transport and flood drainage”. The document showed that local authorities in early 2008 told the provincial agriculture department to hire the Southern Water Resources Science Institute to conduct a survey on possible influences to the river current if an embankment is built. The institute affirmed that gentrification to be carried out in the area between Hoa An and Ghenh Bridges, with river encroachment of 50-100 meters, will not lead to major changes to the hydraulic regime of the river, and will not have a negative impact on the river stream and nearby shores. VRN, while harshly … [Read more...] about Local authorities, experts disagree on new urban area on Dong Nai River