The recent rice export contracts won by some companies forced rice
prices up in late July and made the market in the Cuu Long (Mekong)
Delta very busy to farmers'' delight.
Some 500 foreign projects with a total registered capital of US$3.67
billion have been licensed so far this year, a 17 per cent decline in
investment year-on-year, according to the National Statistics Office.
Despite the global economic turmoil, HCM City has been attracting more
and more investment from both overseas and domestic sources, indicated
by the rising numbers of newly-established firms and capital.
