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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has granted import licenses for dozens of enterprises to import porkers and breeding stock to ensure a sufficient pork supply for the food market during the Tet holidays. However, according to Mr. Nguyen Van Trong, Deputy Director of the Department of Livestock Production, because the prices of pork in neighboring countries have doubled, there is a situation of illegally trading and transporting pigs from Vietnam through the Northern border. To ensure the supply of pork at the end of the year, the MARD requested the National Steering Committee for Combating Smuggling, Commercial Fraud, and Counterfeit Goods (the National Steering Committee 389) and the People's Committees of provinces and cities to control illegal transportation of live hogs and pork products in and out of Vietnam, especially at border gates and well-traveled routes at the border areas. Recently, the ministry also sent an official letter to the Ministry of … [Read more...] about Ministry calls for support to prevent live pig, pork product smuggling

The 31-year-old man who works at the Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh and lives in Hong Ha Ward of the province's Ha Long City has become the country’s Patient 1553. He has recently displayed symptoms of fever, cough and sore-throat, and went to hospital for a medical check-up himself. His test result turned out positive on January 27. He is being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. Initially, 43 people have been quarantined due to having close contact with him. Because of the case, students from Quang Ninh’s schools of all levels are allowed to stay at home from today, January 28, until the end of this week. Meanwhile, a 34-year-old woman from the northern province of Hai Duong has been officially confirmed to be infected with Covid-19 after coming into close contact with the 32-year-old woman from the same province, who had tested positive upon arrival in Japan. Luckily, 21 people who had come into close contact with … [Read more...] about Quang Ninh schools closed following new Covid-19 case

The corridor running 1,450km through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam is an economic development programme initiated to promote development and integration of five Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The concept was agreed in 1998 at the Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion, organised in Manila, Philippines. This corridor became operational on December 12, 2006. In Vietnam, the project starts at Lao Bao International Border Gate in Quang Tri province, running along Highway No9 and 1A to Da Nang city. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 28

Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Nguyen Tuong Van has ordered relevant agencies in the province to trace and conduct COVID-19 tests on all direct and indirect contacts of the patient. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese province tells students to stay home, suspends passenger transport following detection of COVID-19 case

Vietnamese citizens returning home from abroad get on a bus to a quarantine center. Authorities reported 82 new cases of Covid-19 in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Vietnamese health authorities today reported 82 new cases of Covid-19 in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces shortly after the confirmation of two locally-infected cases in these two northern provinces, ending a two-month lull of the local spread of the coronavirus. … [Read more...] about Vietnam detects 82 fresh locally transmitted cases after two-month lull