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The new industrial park will also have convenient traffic connections and infrastructure and will be accessible to main roads such as Highway 1A, HCM City – Trung Lương Highway and Ring Road 3, which crosses the industrial park and connects with the Mekong Delta province of Long An.

Today we visited the Tra Leng primary school's boarding house, one of the HKBV Charity project where we donated a bunk bed system, opened on 30 December 2018.  It took more than 4 hours from Chu Lai Airport to Nam Tra My Mountain where the school is.  The landscape is beautifully but a rather difficult journey even for adults.

In 2019, bank loans for real estate activities, such as buying, repairing and building houses, exceeded VND300 trillion, up 15 per cent year on year. Meanwhile, capital from other sources, including bonds, remittance and foreign direct investment (FDI), reached about VND240 trillion, he said.

According to the General Statistics Office, from January to December 20, total foreign investment into Vietnam, including newly-registered, additional, and stake-acquisition capital, reached nearly $31.8 billion, up 3.1 per cent on-year. In the 2019 e-Conomy SEA report by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company, Vietnam was designated as the third-most funded country in Southeast Asia, after Singapore and Indonesia.

The People’s Committee of the northern province of Bac Ninh has given green light to the establishment of Tan Chi 2 and Cach Bi supporting industrial clusters with more than 1.6 trillion VND (68.75 million USD) in total investment.

The Ministry of Finance recently coordinated with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) to hold a dialogue conference on tax and customs policies and administrative procedures in 2019. This is the 14th year VCCI and the Ministry of Finance jointly hosted this event.

Although the revenue from apparel exports over the period amounted to an estimated US$29.9 billion, up 7.8% year-on-year, the number of orders shipped to foreign countries tumbled, equal to 80% of the figure seen in the same period last year, according to a report by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

That is the response from the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) to a Bloomberg report claiming container shipping may need to grow at almost twice the pace of the last decade, which was reported at 10-12 per cent annually, to keep up with new, surging demand.