The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is expected to be approved in the coming time, possibly before the European Parliamentary election in late May this year.

Minister Nguyen Chi Dung spoke at the Liebesmahl event. Photo: Pham Thang – Correspondent of VNA in Germany

In the framework of the working visit to Federal Republic of Germany at the invitation of German Minister of Economy and Energy Peter Altmaier, on the evening of March 15 (local time) Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung attended and had a speech at the Liebesmahl event organized by the German Business Association (OAV) in Asia –Pacific in Hamburg City Hall.

Liebesmahl is an annual event that attracts about 300 distinguished guests, mainly representatives of German enterprises doing business in the Asia-Pacific region, politicians and ambassadors in regions.

In addition to the presence of German Minister of Economy and Energy, Peter Altmaier and Vietnam Minister of Investment and Planning, Nguyen Chi Dung, this 99th Liebesmahl event also had the participation of Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher, President of OAV Hans- Georg Frey, Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Nguyen Minh Vu …

Speaking at the Liebesmahl event, Minister Nguyen Chi Dung affirmed that the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Germany was entering a new stage of development and appreciated the support of Germany for Vietnam during the last time as well as the role of German enterprises in Vietnam’s economic development and construction process.

Minister Nguyen Chi Dung also expressed his wish that German enterprises would continue to invest more in Vietnam, especially in areas where Germany is widely well – known and in which Vietnam has needs such as machinery production, finance, insurance, renewable energy and human resource training …

To further facilitate the economic cooperation relations between Vietnam and Germany in particular and Vietnam and the European Union (EU) in general, Minister Nguyen Chi Dung called on politicians and German businessmen to promote the signing and approval of EVFTA as soon as possible.

For his part, German Minister of Economy and Energy Peter Altmaier said that the content of the agreement was now being urgently translated into the language of EU members and the agreement was expected to be approved in coming time, possibly before the time of the European Parliament election in late May this year.

Also under the agenda of the working visit to Germany, Minister Nguyen Chi Dung had a meeting with representatives of German and Vietnamese enterprises and discussed with representatives of some German businesses in the fields of insurance, aviation, clean water, or potentials to invest and do business in Vietnam.

Source: baodautu.vn

On February 20th, 2019, Viglacera Real Estate Trading Company successfully organized the Labor Conference 2019. The conference was attended by Mr. Luyen Cong Minh – Chairman of the Administrative Council, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan – General Director, Mr. Nguyen Quy Tuan – Chairman of Trade Union, members of the Administrative Council, Deputy General Director of the Corporation, leaders of related units and all officials and employees in the company.

Working in the principle of democratic centralism and making decisions by majority, the Conference was given chance to participants to listen to such reports as: Business and Production Performance in 2018 and orientations for 2019; the implementation of collective labor agreement; feedbacks on the draft of the 2019’s collective labor agreement; performance of the People’s Inspection Board in 2018… in the first session.

Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong – Chairman of Trade Union of the Company reported on the implementation of the 2018 Collective Labor Agreement and related issues.

Mr. Nguyen Quy Tuan – Member of the Board, Chairman of Trade Union expressed his appreciation for the work of taking care of workers’ lives of Viglacera Real Estate Company

At the same time, in Conference, a new Collective Labor Agreement which will take effect from 2019 to 2022 has been adopted. Accordingly, the Company considered and increased the benefits and allowances in order to ensure the best interests for employees, helping them feel secure to work and dedicate to the company.

The conference agreed to adopt a new Collective Labor Agreement (effective from 2019 – 2022)

In 2018, Viglacera Real Estate Trading Company basically completed the production and business plan, reaching 6/8 targets. In particular, the profit before tax reached 137% of the year plan, equivalent to 139% compared to the same period of 2017.

Mr. Tran Ngoc Anh – Director of the Company reported the results of implementing business tasks in 2018, directions and tasks in 2019

In the second session, representatives of departments made presentations and proposed solutions for industrial park sales, solutions to improve housing business efficiency to complete business and production plans in 2019 and had chance to listen and share employees’ wish. In 2019, all employees of Viglacera Real Estate Business Company will strive to achieve the target of 2 times higher than the plan assigned by the Corporation.

The leaders of the Corporation listened to the discussion about sales solutions of the business divisions

Attending the conference, General Director Nguyen Anh Tuan requested the Real Estate Trading Company to work closely with the relevant units in the Real Estate Board to build a management and operation system effectively. In addition, the business department also needs to regularly survey, researches the market and shares lessons to other units to implement and enhance the Viglacera brand level, comparable to other multinational corporations in the region and in the world. The General Director reminded the departments to stay focused and keep working, although the business plan was completed in 2018. It is necessary to maintain the working spirit and even promote more in 2019, striving to achieve revenue of more than VND 2,000 billion, making significant achievements to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Viglacera Corporation – JSC.

The conference was successfully held with 100% delegates unanimously approving the Conference Resolution.

With the advantage of abundant labor resources, low labor costs and convenient traffic location, Phu Ha – Phu Tho Industrial Park (IP) has become the “ideal stop” for both domestic and foreign investors.

Phu Ha Industrial Park, developed by Viglacera Corporation – JSC started the construction in 2015 with a scale of 350 ha. The IZ is located in Phu Tho town, which is easy to connect to Hanoi – Lao Cai highway through IC9 intersection, under the economic axis of Hai Phong – Hanoi – Lao Cai – Kunming (China), near Ho Chi Minh artery route, convenient to move to Noi Bai airport (45 minutes), central Hanoi (1 hour) and surrounding areas.

Currently, IZ has had complete, synchronic and modern technical and social service infrastructure: the power is supplied from the national grid through 110/22KV transformer station, water system is supplied with the capacity of 13.500m3 per day, wastewater treatment plant is located in the inner area with the capacity of 7,500m3 per day, separate rainwater and wastewater drainage system is in well – placed. In addition, the telecommunication network with international standards has been established within the IP, fully and quickly meeting all the requirements of domestic and foreign communication services of companies.

Phu Ha Industrial Zone has been developed with technical infrastructure and synchronous and modern services

Right from the operation time, Phu Ha Industrial Park has created a great attraction for investors thanks to the elements of ‘time – geography – humanity’. Investment enterprises here have always received sincere support from local authorities with policies such as tax exemption and tax reduction policies, simple procedures, … to quickly stabilize business and investment activities.

Until now, the IP has successfully attracted 17 enterprises from Korea and Japan to rent land with a total estimated investment of up to hundreds of millions USD, creating jobs for thousands of local workers. Investors in the area are mainly high-tech enterprises operating in the field of manufacturing phone components including cameras, vibrating motors, headsets, batteries, cables, chargers, circuit boards, …; Auto parts include wheel speed sensors, power cables and other components and accessories. This success has affirmed the vision of Viglacera’s management board when deciding to invest in Phu Tho – a dynamic and potential development province.

With more than 20 years of experience in developing IPs, Viglacera Corporation – JSC has been constantly striving to improve the investment environment and upgrade its competitiveness. Along with the increasing trend of attracting foreign investment, Phu Ha Industrial Zone promises to be a bright destination for businesses, having desires for expanding production in the North.

For further information, please contact: Viglacera Real Estate Company – Phone: (+84) 903 405 099 | Website: https://viglaceraip.com

To welcome the year 2019, in the morning of 11th February 2019 ( 7th January in Lunar calendar) – the first working day of the whole country, Viglacera corporation – JSC solemnly hold the groundbreaking ceremony of the culture institution for social housing area in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh Industrial zone and activate the Tree planting festival. This is a crucial activity which showed the orientation of Ministry of Construction’s leaders, Bac Ninh Provincial Party, People’s Council and People’s Committee ‘s leaders in caring for workers both physically and mentally, especially workers in industrial zones.

Overview of the ceremony

The guests joining this ceremony included Mr Pham Hoang Ha – Member of Party Central Committee – Minister of Construction, Mr Nguyen Nhan Chien – Member of Party Central Committee – Provincial Party secretary – Bac Ninh National Assembly Delegation leader, Mr Nguyen Tu Quynh – Provincial Party Deputy Secretary – President of Bac Ninh People’s committee, Deputy Ministers of Construction, Standing members of Bac Ninh Provincial Party, Bac Ninh province and Yen Phong county ‘s People’s Committee leaders, Construction Ministry ‘s Departments and companies ‘s leaders, Mr Choi Joo Ho – General director of Samsung Vietnam complex and other representatives of investors who were operating in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh Industrial zones. After finishing the Social housing project for workers in 2017, the Culture Institution project once again affirms the engagement of Viglacera corporation – JSC as the enterprise leading not only in investing on Industrial zone’s infrastructure and facilities but also in investing on the urban area with the goal of improving the working, living and transportation conditions for workers which results in the increasing engagement of workers in Yen Phong 1 Industrial zone.

Mr Tran Anh Tuan – Centered projects management Department ‘s Leader of the Corporation spoke at the ceremony

The culture institution for social housing area in Yen Phong Industrial Zone is a multi-functional complex including: 01 primary school (15 classes), 01 kindergarten school (12 classes), 01 culture building (capacity of 1000 people), clinics, park and gym & sport zone with the total area of 17.000 m2. This complex applies the open space structure with 2-3 floors, yards blending into housing blocks, big roof system connecting the elevations which creates a unique point making different buildings become a whole unifying complex.

The culture institution for social housing area in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh Industrial Zone

With the goal of developing the Industry – Urban zone together with ensuring environment protection, Viglacera commits to actively mobilize all resources, speed up the process of building industrial zones, social housing and culture institutions for the industrial zone ‘s workers, cover most of the area with trees to improve environment condition, follow the orientation of creating the modern and sustainable industrial and urban zones.

Mr Nguyen Tu Quynh – Provincial Party Deputy Secretary – President of Bac Ninh People’s committee spoke at the ceremony

Mr Nguyen Tu Quynh – Provincial Party Deputy Secretary – President of Bac Ninh People’s committee spoke at the ceremony about the excellent achievements of Bac Ninh province in the last period of time, especially the achievements in attracting foreign investments, developing industrial zones to create resources for developing the local economy. To achieve those positive results, there is a big contribution from the caring and support from Ministry of Construction. Mr Quynh also highly appreciated the high determination of Viglacera as the pioneer in Social housing and Technical infrastructure building field. Viglacera not only cared about sustainable development with green development strategy but also actively took the social responsibilities such as investing on synchronizing technical infrastructure development with social infrastructure development; building modern infrastructures, beautiful landscapes, complexes which are friendly with the environment. The sustainable development orientation which shows the high responsibility of Viglacera is the strong driving force for development of Bac Ninh province.

Mr Pham Hong Ha – Member of Party Central Committee – Minister of Construction

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Pham Hong Ha – Member of Party Central Committee – Minister of Construction stated that 2 years ago, also at Yen Phong industrial zone, he joined the groundbreaking ceremony for the Worker housing construction project. Until now, the project was finished as the time that Viglacera committed. Caring about the living standard of factory workers, bringing the essential culture and mental values to the local community is the humane development road that Viglacera bring to factory workers in all industrial zones in general and in Yen Phong industrial zone particularly.

Mr Pham Hong Ha – Minister of Construction directed to commence the Culture institution in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh industrial zone

Together with the joys of the whole country in the first working day of 2019, Minister Pham Hong Ha with other leaders of Bac Ninh provinces and Viglacera’s leaders activated the Tree planting festival 2019 as the famous saying from Ho Chi Minh “Planting tree for the benefit 10 years later”. This festival is an expectation on a green future, a clear environment and sustainable development in the future.

At the beginning of 2019, leaders of Viglacera Corporation also visited employees at Viglacera AAC factory. The image of factory workers working passionately in the first day of the year is a strong motivation for the whole corporation ‘s employees to contribute and develop more building a stronger Viglacera.