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Samsung Electronics wins $3 billion Vietnam project license

Published 11/24/2014, 10:10 PM
Updated 11/24/2014, 10:20 PM
© Reuters. The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

HANOI (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (KS:005930) has secured a license to invest $3 billion to expand its production in northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese government said.

The license was awarded on Nov. 17 in Thai Nguyen province, where Samsung Electronics has been operating a $2 billion smartphone plant, the government said in a statement issued late on Monday, without giving further details of the project.

© Reuters. The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Samsung Electronics has said it plans to invest up to $3 billion for its handset business in Vietnam as part of its strategy to cut costs and better compete with Chinese rivals.

(Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Stephen Coates)

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