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According to the Department of Industry and Trade, the city's export revenue in the first two months was USD218.3m, a slight increase of 3% on last year. Border closure and stricter flying measures have caused difficulties. Moreover, firms can hardly import materials from China. The amount of material imported via air, dropped by 50-60%, sea 20-40% and land 30% respectively. … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES APRIL 3

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Agency for Foreign Trade has urged firms that export goods to China to give the highest priority to preventing the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading further and ensuring the safety of their workers and the public. Exporters should not make light of preventive measures against the coronavirus because of the pressure to ease the backlog of goods at border crossings with China and boost imports, the agency said in a notice recently sent to local departments of industry and trade, business associations and exporters. This will contribute to Vietnam’s concerted efforts to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, it added. Border gates with China have reopened but import and export activities have not returned to normal due to delays in customs clearance and a severe lack of workers to help with cargo handling in both countries. Additionally, China has tightened control of entry and exit of people and vehicles from Vietnam, … [Read more...] about Exporters urged to prioritise containing COVID-19

Bangkok (VNA) – About 70 percent of Thais understand and are engaging in the "social distancing" campaign, which is a major strategy to curb the transmission of COVID-19, the latest survey conducted by Thailand’s Department of Mental Health showed. The department conducted the survey last week among 26,000 respondents. The study's goal was to find out the appropriate measures needed to push the campaign to exceed the 80 percent milestone. Local media quoted Kiattiphoom Vongrachit, Director-General of the department, as saying that the 80 percent benchmark is based on a research in Australia, which found that is the threshold when COVID-19 transmission potentially stops. Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health estimated that if social distancing compliance exceeds 80 percent, the number of COVID-19 cases will reach 7,745 by April 15. The cases will however climb to 17,635 by that date if social distancing compliance is only 50 percent. With no social distancing, the … [Read more...] about Over 80 percent of Thais expected to engage in social distancing

The E.U. accounts for 24 percent of Vietnam’s smartphones exports, and the U.S. for 17 percent of computer and electronics exports, and together for half of Samsung’s exports. … [Read more...] about Samsung Vietnam fears 11 percent drop in export

One will never know if one has secured themselves stocks because people are buying by impulse. Hence, most of the things bought will be wasted. Being a wise consumer is much more important than being a big consumer. That is a habit I was able to build up while growing up in the Philippines where we were constantly hit by typhoons and calamities. … [Read more...] about Live responsibly in COVID-19 age