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HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s reporters have won three prizes of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Press Awards 2020. They include a first prize in the category of photo reportage and two consolation prizes in radio - television and print - electronic newspaper categories. The first prize came to Hoang Tuyet and Manh Linh from VNA’s Tin Tuc Newspaper with a photo reportage entitled “More than 3,000 women join Ao Dai show on Nguyen Hue pedestrians’ street”. Meanwhile, the other two prizes came to reporters from VNA’s VNews television channel and VNA’s representative office in HCM City. This year, the awards received 141 entries from 24 media agencies across the country. Many reflected the reality of the tourism sector in 2020 and created positive effects. Meanwhile, many other introduced the cuisine and tourism of Vietnam and the city, gave recommendations on how to build a safe and friendly tourism sector, and … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency wins three prizes of HCM City Tourism Press Awards

HCM City (VNA) - Intel had poured an additional 475 million USD into Intel Products Vietnam (IPV), its single-largest assembly and test plant within the Intel Assembly and Test (ATM) network, IPV Chief Financial Officer Alan Danner said on January 27. He made the announcement during a meeting with businesses hosted by Saigon Hi-tech Park (SHTP) in Ho Chi Minh City. This is a new investment following a sum of 1.04 billion USD invested to build a chip assembly and test manufacturing facility at SHTP in 2006, bringing the semiconductor company’s investment in Vietnam to 1.5 billion USD in total. The additional capital was channelled into IPV between June 2019 and December 2020 to bolster the production of Intel’s 5G products, Intel Core processors with Intel Hybrid Technology, and the 10th Gen Intel Core. IPV is an important part of Intel’s production chain across the world, Danner said, adding that the firm will further diversify and improve its activities in … [Read more...] about Intel channels additional 475 million USD into Vietnam

Vietnam confirmed 82 more local coronavirus infections at noon on Thursday, taking the day’s count to 84, which is the largest daily rise since the virus hit the Southeast Asian country in January last year. … [Read more...] about Vietnam confirms a whopping 84 local COVID-19 cases in less than 24 hours

In addition to these achievements, the livestock sector still has shortcomings such as unsustainable growth, especially in disease control, food safety, environment and product market. The sector alsos face many challenges in the context of deep international integration. Especially following the signing of free trade agreements, domestic livestock products will have to compete more fiercely with products of the same type from foreign countries with better qualifications and experience than Vietnam. On the other hand, Vietnamese experts and the relevant agencies do not yet fully appreciate the important role of market factors for the development of the pork industry and land-related issues for grazing spaces of buffalo and beef breeding. Breeders still lack land the funds for investment in and development of farms. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 28

In 2019, the UK, the world’s ninth-largest rice importer, splashed out US$531 million buying 671,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice. However, Vietnamese rice only accounted for 0.24 per cent of the UK’s total rice imports. Top rice exporters to the UK included India (22 per cent of market share), Pakistan (18 per cent), Spain (11 per cent), Italy (10.9 per cent), and Thailand (9.2 per cent). — VNS … [Read more...] about First batch of Vietnamese rice exported to the UK under UKVFTA