The Lien Chieu deep-water port project, on a planned area of about 450 hectares, will be the largest container port in the central region upon completion and be capable of berthing container vessels of up to 8,000 TEUs. The project consists of 2 components, with an implementation period from 2021 to 2025. Da Nang is now calling for investment in the project and offering incentives. “Port infrastructure investment is among the categories subject to incentives. Projects with investment of over 30 trillion VND will enjoy special investment incentives. We are developing a bidding plan and attempting to get construction underway this year,” said Le Thanh Hung, Director of the Management Board for Da Nang’s Priority Infrastructure Investment Projects. Considered a highlight of Da Nang’s investment attraction efforts, its Hi-Tech Park has been attracting a host of projects, in particular foreign investment focusing on information technology and high-tech industry. Luong Van Quang, … [Read more...] about Da Nang offering preferential policies to attract investors
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Da Nang strives to develop itself into ‘liveable’ city
The Golden Bridge offers a check-in for tourists visiting the Sun World Ba Na Hills in Da Nang. The city has been designed as a liveable urban city. (Photo courtesy of Sun Group) Da Nang (VNS/VNA) - With stable growth in the economy, infrastructure, urban management, tourism and investment attraction, the central city of Da Nang is challenging to develop into a ‘liveable’ city of regional and global status. Economist Vo Tri Thanh said at a seminar on how to develop Da Nang as a destination and a liveable city in Vietnam and region, emphasising that the central city had not yet approached the ‘liveable’ standard and it needed much progress to reach the target. Thanh said Da Nang had been known as a favourite destination in Vietnam but was not yet a ‘worth living’ location in terms of enjoyment, relaxation, and entertainment. “A ‘liveable’ city requires maximising consumption, commodities, working places while promoting a ‘green’ environment, humanity, safe, smart and … [Read more...] about Da Nang strives to develop itself into ‘liveable’ city
Real estate market slowing down, experts divided on bubble risk
Land split into lots for sale. The real estate market was slowing down on the tightening of credit flow into certain segments.-VNA/VNS Photo In recent years, land prices increased rapidly despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report by the Department of Housing and Real Estate Market Management under the Ministry of Construction, land prices, especially in localities planning or developing infrastructure saw whopping increases. The moves to control credit flow into the real estate sector and land lot split were cooling the market, with falling liquidity but prices staying at high levels. A report by real estate portal batdongsan.com.vn showed that searches for property on sale via the portal in the first five months of this year dropped by 11 per cent against the same period last year. Nguyen Quoc Anh, deputy director general of batdongsan.com.vn, said the market was slowing down significantly with interest in buying a property decreasing by 9 per … [Read more...] about Real estate market slowing down, experts divided on bubble risk
HCMC, VNU-HCMC sign cooperation program for socio-economic development
The People’s Committee of HCMC and Vietnam National University–HCMC (VNU-HCMC) sign a cooperation program in various areas in the 2022-2025 period. (Photo: SGGP) The program aims to serve the goals of socio-economic development and integration of the city and the southern key economic region in the 2022-2025 period, and implement VNU-HCMC’s main missions in researching, training and serving the community. The cooperation program includes human resource training and development in the fields of IT, AI, urban management, mechanical and automation engineering, business management, finance and banking, health and tourism; scientific research and socio-economic development allowing VNU-HCMC to participate in the city’s key science and technology missions, seek measures for the development of culture and sports, study automation technology application of infrastructure management and operation, assess the social impacts caused by flooding and seek solutions to improve environment; … [Read more...] about HCMC, VNU-HCMC sign cooperation program for socio-economic development
Samsung Engineering acquires stake in water treatment company
The ceremony to sign the deal was held at the Intercontinental Landmark Hotel in Hanoi, and attended by executives from both companies, including Samsung Engineering Executive vice president GyuYeon Kang and DNP Water chairman Ngo Duc Vu. With this acquisition, Samsung Engineering holds a 24 percent stake in DNP Water, DNP Holding owns 53 percent and other stakeholders have 23 percent. DNP Water is a private enterprise that focuses on water supply business in Vietnam and is the largest private water treatment company in terms of capacity. It was spun off from the DNP Group, a manufacturer of plastic pipes, in 2017. Since then it has been growing in the water treatment business by buying private water supply assets and developing new businesses. (From L) Nguyen Van Hieu, DNP Holding CEO, Kang Gyu-yeon, Samsung Engineering EVP and Ngo Duc Vu, DNP Water Chairman at the signing ceremony. Photo by Samsung Engineering The Asian water treatment market is shifting from … [Read more...] about Samsung Engineering acquires stake in water treatment company