Experts have recommended a number of measures to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) in HCM City’s export processing zones (EPZs) and industrial zones (IPs).
An Export processing zone (EPZ) is an industrial zone where enterprises
specialising in manufacturing exports, providing services for the
production or manufacture of exports, and export activities come
together.
Managements of many industrial parks and export processing zones in HCM
City have built dormitories for employees, but only a small fraction of
the workers choose to stay in these places.
After shuttering due to violence during protests against China''s illegal
positioning of an oil rig in Viet Nam''s exclusive economic zone and
continental shelf in early May, most companies at industrial parks and
export processing zones in HCM City, Binh Duong and Dong...
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.
Fish sauce producers on Phu Quoc Island in Kien Giang Province are in
desperate need for help as they are facing shortages of raw materials
due to the acute competition in purchasing anchovies, the main material
for the fish sauce industry.