{"id":38545,"date":"2014-11-11T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=38545"},"modified":"2014-11-11T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T16:10:18","slug":"samsung-plans-second-vietnam-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=38545","title":{"rendered":"Samsung plans second Vietnam plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has applied for a licence to invest US$3 billion (RM10 billion) in building a second smartphone factory in northern Vietnam, a government official said yesterday. Samsung Electronics Vietnam plans to build the factory in Thai Nguyen province, where it opened a US$2 billion smartphone plant in March, said a senior official at the provinces Planning and Investment Department. Samsung has been increasing production in Vietnam to reduce costs and better compete with Chinese rivals products in particular. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1uTlU9J\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has applied for a licence to invest US$3 billion (RM10 billion) in building a second smartphone factory in northern Vietnam,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38546,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545\/revisions\/38546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}