By Praveen Paramasivam and Chandini Monnappa THOOTHUKUDI, India (Reuters) -Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast began operations at a new plant in India, its first overseas factory, on Monday, and said it hopes to source more parts locally and that it had received orders from Sri Lanka,

VinFast Tamil Nadu is the company’s third operational plant and the fifth project in VinFast’s global network. It is also the first facility to be inaugurated outside Vietnam, demonstrating the global expansion vision and large-scale project implementation capacity.