Vietnam provinces pledge support foreign investors after riots
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Police officers gather outside an industrial park in Dong Nai Province to beef up security following riots
The governments of three southern Vietnamese provinces where foreign invested companies suffered damages in recent riots on Friday pledged to support investors.
Representatives
from
Binh
Duong,
Dong
Nai
and
Ba
Ria-Vung
Tau
authorities
paid
visits
to
the
affected
companies
in
industrial
parks
where
mobs
vandalized
factories,
looted
and
attacked
security
guards
after
protests
against
Chinese
oil-drilling
in
Vietnamese
waters
turned
violent.
Tran
Thanh
Liem,
vice
chairman
of
Binh
Duong
Province
People’s
Committee,
apologized
to
the
companies
for
the
damages.
He
said
the
local
government
will
strictly
punish
rioters
and
take
drastic
measures
to
crack
down
on
local
gangsters
to
prevent
similar
events
in
the
future.
Liem
said
authorities
are
working
to
help
affected
companies
resume
business
activities.
According
to
the
Vietnam-Singapore
Industrial
Park
1
(VSIP1),
which
is
home
to
326
companies
with
115,000
workers,
a
riot
occurred
in
the
park
on
May
13,
forcing
all
companies
to
shut
down
in
two
days.
By
Friday,
208
companies
in
the
park
had
resumed
operation.
The
Nam
Tan
Uyen
Industrial
Park
in
Binh
Duong’s
Tan
Uyen
Town
said
more
than
2,500
workers
of
South
Korean
apparel
company
Poong
In
Vina
got
back
to
work
on
Friday.
In
Dong
Nai
Province,
the
provincial
People’s
Committee
has
asked
the
management
boards
of
industrial
parks
to
calculate
the
damages
caused
by
rioters
and
put
forwards
measures
to
support
the
affected
companies.
By
Friday,
around
140,000
workers
of
300
Taiwanese
and
Chinese-invested
companies
in
industrial
parks
across
the
province
had
not
got
back
to
work
yet.
Other
South
Korean
and
Japanese
companies
had
resumed
operation.
Seven
working
teams
sent
by
the
local
government
to
affected
companies
have
proposed
that
the
local
government
order
insurance
companies
to
quickly
finalize
procedures
to
compensate
affected
companies
and
order
local
banks
to
give
loans
to
the
companies.
The
teams
said
that
the
local
government
should
support
the
companies
by
reducing
land-lease
fees
and
reduce
some
taxes
in
a
certain
period
of
time.
Authorities
of
Ba
Ria-Vung
Tau
Province
also
pledged
to
ensure
the
safety
of
foreign
investors
to
the
highest
level.
On
Friday
all
the
companies
in
industrial
parks
across
the
province
re-opened
after
several
days
of
hiatus.