Samsung Electronics wins $3 billion Vietnam project license

Reuters

Published Nov 24, 2014 10:10PM ET

Samsung Electronics wins $3 billion Vietnam project license

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.