December 12, 2011
Rice exports from Vietnam, the second-largest shipper, reached a record level, boosting supply at a time when floods and government policies may reduce flows from Thailand, the largest exporter. Shipments totaled 6.84 million metric tons in the year through Dec. 8, the Vietnam Food Association said today. That’s more than the 6.75 million tons [...]
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November 18, 2011
Vietnam agencies are investigating Japan’s claim that it has found genetically modified organisms (GMO) in pho (rice noodles) exported by a local company, the news website of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union reported on Thursday. According to Dan Viet, on November 11, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development asked Bich Chi Food Joint-stock Co. [...]
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September 20, 2011
A man carrying chickens on National Highway 1 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District. Bird flu has hit flocks of fowl in three of Vietnam’s north-central provinces over the last two weeks, the Department of Animal Health announced on Tuesday (September 13). Hoang Van Nam, the department chief, said at a meeting of [...]
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July 12, 2011
Tran Van Thanh (left) and a group of foreign experts during a field trip in the Cat Tien National Park. (Photo: Sai Gon Tiep Thi) The director of the Cat Tien National Park, a UNESCO listed biosphere reserve, says he is determined to stand by opinions contrary to state agencies pushing for the development of [...]
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June 21, 2011
Staff members of a local export company (L) interview candidates for overseas jobs in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Nam has been on tenterhooks for the past week. He has completed most of the procedures for going to work in Taiwan next month, but has not managed to raise enough money to pay for the trip. “Earlier, [...]
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May 17, 2011
Soldiers participate in a simulation exercise held on Sunday in the central city of Da Nang that aimed to test Vietnam's first locally established tsunami warning system The agriculture ministry cooperated with military-owned telecom giant Viettel to test Vietnam’s first locally produced tsunami warning system in the central city of Da Nang on Sunday. Â [...]
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February 1, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Hundreds of trucks carrying farm produce to China have been halted at the Tan Thanh border gate over the last several days. Tuoi Tre reporters witnessed a long three kilometer queue of vehicles transporting fruit to China on the afternoon of January 29. It was a suffocating line because of vehicles’ smoke and [...]
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January 31, 2010
Shoppers look at imported fruits at a supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City. Although it is a major agricultural exporter, Vietnam still imports a huge amount of produce and experts say itâs a trend that the country should not be proud of. The lack of barriers against cheap imports and poor marketing have pushed the [...]
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January 23, 2010
New luxury tax for alcohol; Metro Cash & Carry to open 12th center in Vietnam; Local textile, garment firms cooperate to boost expansion Beer and other alcoholic drinks will face a special consumption tax of 45 percent until the end of 2012, the General Department of Taxation has said. According to a note sent by [...]
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January 17, 2010
An official from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Ca Mau Province has called for the relocation of 12,000 people living along the southwestern sea dykes in the province. A 100m section of a sea dykes has been washed away at the mouth of the Huong Mai sea in U Minh District, in [...]
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