Kien Giang to boost shrimp production in 2017 It includes 16,240 tonnes from industrial and semi-industrial farming, 40,838 tonnes from shrimp-rice farming and 5,922 tonnes from improved-extensive farming. Three main varieties are farmed: black-tiger shrimp, white-legged shrimp and blue-clawed prawn. Nguyen Van Tam, director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the department has directed local authorities to monitor shrimp farming to ensure shrimp diseases remain under control. Relevant agencies and local authorities should closely follow the environmental situation to take proactive measures in case of saline intrusion during the ongoing dry season, he said. The province should speed up agricultural expansion, promote the use of technology and advanced farming models and closely control production and provide shrimp for breeding, he said. It plans to restructure the sector based on the large shrimp farming model to add value and link seafood … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS 19/3
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Islamist militants kill 44 in Pakistan police attack
Pakistani soldiers arrive at the Balochistan Police Training College in Quetta on October 24, 2016. — AFP/VNA Photo Viet Nam News QUETTA, Pakistan — Heavily-armed Islamist militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy, killing at least 44 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest extremist attacks this year. Three gunmen from a Pakistani Taliban-linked group burst into the sprawling academy, targeting sleeping quarters that are home to some 700 recruits, sending terrified young men fleeing. "I saw three men in camouflage whose faces were hidden carrying Kalashnikovs," one cadet told reporters. "They started firing and entered the dormitory but I managed to escape over a wall." The attack on the Balochistan Police College, around 20 kilometres east of provincial capital Quetta, began at around 11:10 pm (1810 GMT) Monday, with gunfire continuing to ring out at the site for several hours. Sarfaraz Bugti, home … [Read more...] about Islamist militants kill 44 in Pakistan police attack
Pakistan hands land over to China for economic zone
Pakistan handed hundreds of hectares of land over to China Wednesday for development of a special economic zone in the port of Gwadar, part of a $46 billion project giving Beijing greater access to the Middle East, Africa and Europe. A market is seen in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, whose government handed over about 280 hectares of a 923-hectare swathe of tax-exempt land to China that Beijing will develop under a 43-year lease. The government of Baluchistan province -- Pakistan's poorest -- handed over about 280 hectares of a 923-hectare (2,300-acre) swathe of tax-exempt land that Beijing will develop under a 43-year lease. The rest of the land will be handed over under the agreement with the public China Overseas Port Holding Company "soon", senior Pakistani government officials told AFP. The development is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, an ambitious $46 billion investment plan linking western China to the Arabian Sea, part … [Read more...] about Pakistan hands land over to China for economic zone
India, Japan, U.S. plan naval exercises in tightening of ties in Indian Ocean
A floating dock of the Indian navy is pictured at the naval base at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, July 1, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Sanjeev Miglani Japan is set to take part in joint naval exercises with India and the United States in the Indian Ocean in October, military and diplomatic sources said, a drill that so riled China eight years ago that Delhi has not since hosted such a multilateral wargame. The Indian Ocean has emerged as a new arena of competition between China making inroads and India trying to recover its position as the dominant maritime power in the region. New Delhi's decision to expand the "Malabar" exercises that it conducts with the United States each year to include Japan suggests a tightening of military relations between three major maritime powers in Asia, analysts said. Military officials from India, the U.S. and Japan are meeting at a U.S. navy base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, on Wednesday and Thursday to plan the exercises, a navy and a … [Read more...] about India, Japan, U.S. plan naval exercises in tightening of ties in Indian Ocean
Second highway to link with Laos, Thailand
Second highway to link with Laos, Thailand (23-08-2007) The Lao Bao border gate lies on the trans-Asia highway linking central Viet Nam and Thailand. A proposal to develop a second East-West Economic Corridor has been put forward by the central city of Da Nang. — VNA/VNS Photo Anh Tuan DA NANG — A proposal to develop another trans-Asia highway linking central Viet Nam with Laos and Thailand, officially called the Second East-West Economic Corridor (or EWEC-2), has been put forward by the central city of Da Nang. Under the proposal, the EWEC-2 would run from Tien Sa Port in Da Nang through Highways No. 14B and 14D to Dakt-oc Border Gate in Quang Nam Province, to Sekong and Pakse in Laos, and Chongmek and Nakhon in Thailand before reaching Bangkok. According to recent surveys conducted by Da Nang's Planning and Investment Department, the proposed EWEC-2 highway would be 987km long, 400 km shorter than the road from Da Nang to Bangkok and would use the existing EWEC … [Read more...] about Second highway to link with Laos, Thailand