Factories have reopened and production is steadily picking up in major manufacturing centres of Southeast Asia as COVID-19 cases have dropped in recent weeks, easing some of the supply chain constraints that companies blame for lost sales, reported the US’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Sportswear giant Nike Group has affirmed that it will continue to expand production in Binh Duong province, said Nguyen Thanh Toan, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of the southern industrial hub.

Tetra Pak has announced an additional investment of EUR5 million in its EUR120 million packaging material factory in Binh Duong province.

VOV.VN - A sudden blaze at 19:00 p.m. on the evening of September 12 ripped through a scrap paper factory in Dai Ban commune of An Duong district in the northern province of Hai Phong.

The US’s Vector Fabrication Inc has been scouting locations in central Vietnam for a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) factory with an estimated investment of US$60 million, according to the Head of the Da Nang Hi-tech Park and Industrial Zones Authority (Da Nang HPIZA), Pham Truong Son.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has recently issued a directive asking relevant ministries and localities to ensure stable jobs, improve life quality and working conditions of labourers, especially factory workers nationwide.

VOV.VN - Employees in the northern province of Bac Ninh, the nation’s second largest novel coronavirus (COVID-19) hotspot, will live and work at their factories, with this policy starting from June 2.

A high-tech poultry incubation factory was inaugurated in the southern province of Tay Ninh on April 17 by Bel Ga Joint Stock Company which is strongly supported by two family-owned European companies namely Belgabroed and De Heus Group.

A VND42 billion (US$1.82 million) vegetable and fruit processing factory was put into operation in Vung Lai commune, Muong Khuong district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on April 7.

VOV.VN - The total export value of tra fish (pangasius) to China by mid-February plummeted by 38.6% on-year to US$13.55 million, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).