The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is proposing to set up the fund to be backed up by the Vietnamese government, donors and banks. The MPI said the fund would provide private investors with loans at attractive interest rates when investing in infrastructure projects under the public-private partnership (PPP) form.

Central Binh Dinh province is calling on investors for 12 big tourism projects, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

The government of Vietnam is expected to spend VND29 trillion (USD1.716 billion) to launch investment promotion activities this year.

The Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment has received feedback from 29 cities and provinces on the disbursement of capital in the first quarter of 2009.

Fifty companies from Belgium, Spain, Greece, France and Denmark will arrive in Vietnam next week to look for business opportunities.

The People Committee of Binh Dinh Province has just released a dispach approving in principle to allow Tuy Phuoc Electrical Construction & Installation Joint Stock Company to invest in the project of building and operating the technical infrastructure of Ta Suc Industrial Cluster covering on a area of 19.7 hectas in  Vinh Quang Commune, Vinh Thanh District, Binh Dinh Province.

In the morning of 4 February 2009, at the Office of the Provincial People’s Committee, Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Nguyen Van Thien received and held a talk with How Yu Construction Limited Company; Far Eastern Bank (Taiwan) - branch in HCMC, Vietnam Property Holding Fund and Thanh Nien Joint Stock Co. Also joining the meeting are leaders of the departments of Planning and Investment, Natural resouces and  Environment, Industry and Trade, Construction, Nhon Hoi Economic Zone Administration.

In the morning of 14 January 2008, in Hanoi, the investment promotion seminar for urban infrastructure was organised by the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) in order to mobilise the investment capital for the stage of 2006-2010.

On 30/12/2008, the provincial People’s Committee released a dispatch on planning the allocated land plots in Quy Nhon City.

The People’s Committee of Binh Dinh Province has just released the official dispatch to agree in principle to allow H.B.C Investment and Service Joint Stock Company to carry out related procedures for the project of Mui Tan – Tran Hung Dao Statue tourist route.

Within the framework of the co-operation programme with UNDP (the United Nations Development Programme), the Central Institute for Economic Management, the Task Force on implementation of Investment Law and Enterprise Law have completed a report of evaluating two years of implementing the Investment Law and Enterprise Law which have become effective since 01/07/2006.

The People’s Committee of Binh Dinh Province has just submitted the official dispatch to the Ministry of Planning and Investment to register the list of projects calling for urban infrastructure investment which will be introduced at the investment promotion seminar scheduled in November, 2008 in Hanoi.

Binh Dinh, 29 October 2008, Vice chairman of the People’s Committee of Binh Dinh Province Le Huu Loc and related agencies received and had a meeting with Mr Hui Wah - Vice chairman of the board of directors, General director for the Good Wishes Development Group (Hong Kong).

The Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) of the Ministry of Planning and Investment reported that FDI capital registered in the first 10 months of this year reached US$ 59.3 billion, with the final yearly figure estimated to be around US$ 60 billion.

A Conference on Investment Promotion in Southern Region was held in Ho Chi Minh City on October 10 by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and Saigon-Financial Investment Newspaper. The conference aims to summarize and assess the achievements and define the problems, difficulties to solve together to improve the task of investment promotion.