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Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam and Belarus have reached consensus on measures to remove bottlenecks for the joint venture MAZ Asia on manufacturing and assembling trucks and specific-use vehicles in the context of complicated development of COVID-19, under their amended protocol signed in Hanoi on December 3. The protocol was inked between Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and Belarusian Ambassador to Vietnam Vladimir Goshin. Both sides were unanimous to adjust the localisation rate to facilitate the joint venture’s manufacturing and assembling activities, making them on par with Vietnam’s automobile industry development strategy by 2025 with a vision to 2035. Besides, the amended protocol details regulations on product origin, and allocation process for tariff rate quotas. Following the free trade deal between Vietnam and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) clinched in 2015, the signing of the protocol in March 2016 created an important framework for … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Belarus cooperate to support production of motor vehicles

He returned to Vietnam from Japan on November 14 and was quarantined for four days at a facility managed by his employer in HCMC. After he twice tested negative for the coronavirus, he was let go but told to isolate himself at home. Flight crews are allowed short-term quarantines to ensure staff availability. … [Read more...] about 14-day Covid-19 quarantine not needed in many cases: experts

The meeting saw the participation of defense attachés of ASEAN member states, defense attachés/representatives from eight ASEAN’s partners (Russia, China, the U.S., the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and India), and other invited guests. … [Read more...] about ADMM-14 and seventh ADMM+ to be held virtually

Workers of the Minh Phu Seafood Corporation process shrimp at a plant of the firm at Nam Song Hau Industrial Park in Hau Giang Province. VASEP forecasts that Vietnam will be able to export seafood worth US$8.6 billion this year - PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Although Covid-19 continues to develop complicatedly in major importing markets such as the United States and the European Union, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) expects that Vietnam will be able to export seafood worth US$8.6 billion this year thanks to a high demand at the end of the year. … [Read more...] about VASEP forecasts 2020 seafood exports at US$8.6 billion

As of Thursday morning, HCM City had taken samples of 2,244 people involved in the case of the flight attendant. Of these, 1,632 people had negative results, while 612 samples are waiting for results (including 11 cases of direct contact with infected people). … [Read more...] about Life in HCM City amid Covid-19 spread