Farmers need support to expand fruit production Dragon fruits is a key produce in Chau Thanh District, Long An Province. — Photo dangcongsan.vn Fruit is a key produce of provinces around the Mekong Delta. However, small-scale production and poor links from production to purchase, from process to export, are hindering the development of orchards, attendees heard at a workshop held yesterday in the Mekong Delta province of Long An. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the southern provinces have an area of 596,330ha of fruit trees, accounting for 60 per cent of orchards nationwide. Their annual productivity has reached over 6.6 million tonnes, accounting for 67 per cent of the country. Productivity has risen 61 per cent against that of 2010. Due to scattered production, it is difficult for investors to pour capital into developing infrastructure, setting up links in production and controlling product quality. There are 71 fruit processing … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 17/3
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World News in Brief: January 21
* The Syrian air defenses responded to heavy Israeli strikes early Monday, destroying most of the missiles before they reached their targets, the Syrian state TV reported. *The Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held phone talks Monday morning over the second summit between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry. * The Security Council on January 20 condemned "in the strongest terms" a deadly attack on the UN peacekeeping force in Mali that killed 10 soldiers from Chad. * US President Donald Trump spoke over phone with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 20 over ongoing tension in Syria and bilateral ties, said the White House. * Afghan incumbent President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on January 20 registered with the election commission to contest the presidential elections slated for July 20. * Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah … [Read more...] about World News in Brief: January 21
BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 16/10
Vietnam’s Macroeconomic Policies-Third Quarter 2018 under scrutiny HCM City Securities Corp tops derivatives market share HCM City Securities Corporation (HSC) had the biggest market share on the derivatives market in the third quarter of 2018, according to the Ha Noi Stock Exchange. Of the 11 securities companies that are allowed to operate in the derivatives market, HSC held a 25.35 per cent market share. HSC was followed by VNDirect Securities JSC (23.98 per cent), MB Securities JSC (15.88 per cent) and Saigon Securities Inc (15.40 per cent). Other securities firms with less than 10 per cent market share included VPBank Securities JSC (9.87 per cent), BIDV Securities JSC (4.65 per cent) and Viet Capital Securities Co (2.84 per cent). The three new securities companies whose operation on the derivatives market had been accepted earlier by the HNX were Viet Dragon Securities JSC, KIS Vietnam Securities Co and Vietcombank Securities Co Ltd. Those three … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 16/10
Killer of Vietnamese girl in Japan faces death
Japanese prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for a local man accused of killing a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl last year. Yasumasa Shibuya, 47, committed a "cold-blooded, heinous and cruel" crime, prosecutors at the Chiba District Court said at a hearing on Monday, Kyodo News reported. The victim, Le Thi Nhat Linh, went missing after she left home for school in Matsudo City, an hour northeast of Tokyo. Her body was discovered two days later. According to the indictment, Shibuya took Linh into his car on the morning of March 24, 2017 before sexually assaulting and killing the girl in the vehicle and abandoning her body near a drainage ditch in Abiko, also in Chiba Prefecture. Shibuya, who was a neighbor of Linh's family and also head of the parent’s association at the girl’s school, has denied the charge, saying he is innocent. Prosecutors said blood and saliva matching Linh’s DNA was found in Shibuya's car and that Shibuya's DNA was also found from the victim's … [Read more...] about Killer of Vietnamese girl in Japan faces death
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Twenty-seven more communes and wards this year join family medical practice A health staff member takes blood for testing at An Hòa ward health station in Cần Thơ City’s Ninh Kiều District. Source http://soytecantho.vn The Department of Health in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ this year plans to expand a model of family medical practice clinics to 27 more communes and wards. Family medical practice clinics aim to provide comprehensive and continuous health care services to each local individual and family in order to reduce overcrowding of patients at city or central-level hospitals. These clinics are located at health stations in communes and wards. Each commune or ward has one health station. Cần Thơ aims to equip more than 80 per cent of its 85 health stations with these clinics by 2020. According to Dr Bùi Thị Lệ Phi, the department’s head, the city now has 18 commune-based health stations with family … [Read more...] about Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)