Vietnam needs to build linkages in organic farming
Vietnam needs to build linkages and investment plans in developing production and consumption of organic products , experts say (Illustrative photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam needs to build linkages and investment plans in developing production and consumption of organic products, experts say. As many as 46 out of 63 localities across Vietnam carried out organic farming in 2020, with the involvement of more than 170,000 farmers, data of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) shows. The organic farming movement has developed rapid but only a few products are recognised as organic ones. Large-scale production and support from localities are considered as necessary to create a large amount of organic products at reasonable prices. Stricter management mechanism is needed for organic farming development to guarantee transparency in the process and increase consumers’ trust in the organic farm produce./.
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January 09, 2022 18:43 UTC
35 years of renewal: Vietnam’s rice conquers the world
35 years of renewal: Vietnam’s rice conquers the worldAfter 35 years of the “doi moi” (renewal) process, from a country experiencing food shortages, Vietnam has become one of the largest rice exporters in the world.
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January 09, 2022 01:44 UTC
Vietnam to attend ASEAN Tourism Forum in Cambodia
People wear face masks to avoid COVID-19 infection in Phnom Penh in May 2020. (Photo: AFP/VNA)Vietnam will attend the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2022, themed “a Community of Peace and Shared Future” in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, from January 16 – 20.It is the largest event within the ASEAN tourism cooperation framework.The forum will feature a series of major events, such as the 25th ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting, the Tourism Ministers Meetings between ASEAN and partner countries (China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, India and Russia), the International Travel Expo TRAVEX, and the ASEAN Tourism Award Ceremony.In this year’s ASEAN Tourism Award, Vietnam has won four out of the five categories, namely ASEAN Green Hotel Awards, ASEAN MICE Venue Awards, ASEAN Clean Tourist City Awards, and ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Awards.Vietnam’s pavilion at TRAVEX 2022 will be themed “Live Fully in Vietnam”, with the participation of popular tourist destinations, tour operators and luxurious hotels and resorts from the country.The ATF was first organised in Kuala Lumpur in 1981. The event was hosted by Vietnam twice, in Hanoi in 2009 and in Quang Ninh in 2019.According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, ASEAN is one of Vietnam ’s major source of tourists. In 2019, tourist arrivals from ASEAN totaled nearly 2.1 million, mostly from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia . The figure accounted for about 11.6 percent of Vietnam’s foreign visitors./.
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January 08, 2022 23:03 UTC
Cultural value popularisation helps raise Vietnam’s status in int’l arena
The magnificent Son Doong Cave in the central province of Quang Binh (Photo: VNA)Boats on Ha Long Bay, a tourist magnet in the northern province of Quang Ninh (Photo: VNA)VNA– Proactively popularising Vietnam’s cultural values to the world and bringing into play the soft power of culture to help promote the country’s status in the international arena is one of the targets determined in the cultural development strategy until 2030.Over the past years, Vietnam has been striving to popularise images of its land and people so as to help uphold the national cultural identity, join humankind’s civilisation, and adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.The year 2021 was the seventh time Vietnam had taken part in a World Expo. Prof. and Dr Nguyen Huu Thuc, a lecturer from the Hanoi-based National University of Arts Education, said the cultural identity of a country holds an important role in the development of that nation. It is not immutable but can be developed to match the reality, including the intensive globalisation and international integration.Many experts shared the view that cultural diplomacy has helped introduce Vietnam’s land, culture, history, and people to the world.In recent years, Vietnam has organised cultural days, weeks, and festivals in many countries which in turn have also held their cultural events in the Southeast Asian nation with a view to enhancing mutual understanding. In addition, several individuals have also been appointed as cultural ambassadors to spread cultural values of each country.The strategy for developing Vietnam’s cultural industries until 2020 with a vision to 2030, which targeted the development of cultural industries in tandem with the dissemination of the country’s images, has helped protect and bring into play the national cultural identity during the international integration and cooperation process. This is also in line with the role of culture as a driver for economic development stated in the documents of the 13th National Party Congress./.
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January 08, 2022 14:52 UTC
Vietnam, Laos eye breakthrough measures to enhance cooperation's effectiveness
Hanoi (VNA) – State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh shared the view that both sides must foster closer coordination and come up with breakthrough measures to enhance their cooperation’s effectiveness while meeting in Hanoi on January 8. The Lao PM is on an official visit to Vietnam until January 10 at the invitation of his counterpart PM Pham Minh Chinh. Welcoming PM Phankham Viphavanh, President Phuc said he expects the visit will provide a new impetus for the Vietnam-Laos special relations to expand further. They also wanted the two countries to expand connections in both hard and soft infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, and digital economy. Phuc later took the occasion to ask his guest to convey his greetings to Party General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith and other leaders of Laos./.
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January 08, 2022 14:16 UTC
Vietnam, Laos agree to boost special ties
For his part, the Lao leader also spoke highly of Vietnam’s achievements in its recent national construction and development, and thanked the Party, State and people of Vietnam for their great, valuable help to Laos. They reaffirmed their countries’ consistent policies of always attaching importance and top priority to the consolidation and strengthening of the bilateral great friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation. They also agreed to continue raising the quality of the education-training cooperation; strengthen exchanges in culture, sports and tourism; and boost cooperation in clean agriculture, e-commerce and digital transform. The Lao PM invited PM Chinh to pay an official visit to Laos at a suitable time, and the invitation was accepted. During the ongoing visit, the two PM will co-chair the launch of the Vietnam - Laos, Laos - Vietnam Friendship and Solidarity Year 2022 and the 44th session of the Vietnam - Laos Inter-governmental Committee.
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January 08, 2022 08:55 UTC
VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES JANUARY 8
It is the first visit by a foreign high-ranking leader to Vietnam this year, showing determination of the two countries’ leaders in promoting Vietnam - Laos special ties and effectively carrying out the Vietnam - Laos Joint Statement in June 2021. He worked for the national men's football team from 1995 to 2012, and is also a member of the Medical Committee of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF). Vietnam logs 16,278 COVID-19 cases on January 7Vietnam recorded 16,278 cases of COVID-19, including 24 imported ones, during 24 hours from 4pm January 6 to 4pm January 7, according to the Ministry of Health. Held by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) together with the Embassy of India in Vietnam and the Vietnam - India Friendship Association, the exhibition can be viewed at https://link.gov.vn/TLAVNAD (in Vietnamese) and https://link.gov.vn/PICVNAD (in English) until January 11. The programme will be held in-person and virtual forms and be broadcast live on Vietnam Television’s VTV1 and VTV4 channels.
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January 08, 2022 03:05 UTC
Fifth Vietnam Rice Festival underway in Vinh Long
(Photo:VNA)The fifth Vietnam Rice Festival is underway in Vinh Long province in the Mekong Delta on January 7 – 10 as part of an effort to promote Vietnamese rice domestically and globally.Rice is not only the key staple food in Vietnam but also provides livelihood for millions of farmers, mostly in the Mekong and the Red River deltas in the south and the north of the country.From a rice importer over three decades ago, Vietnam has risen to the world’s top exporter. In 2020, Vietnam exported 3.07 billion USD worth of the grain, making it the second largest rice producer in the world, only after India. In the first 11 months of last year, the country shipped abroad 5.75 million tonnes of the food for 3.03 billion USD, up 0.8 percent and 7.2 percent year on year, respectively. Vietnamese rice is now available in about 80 countries and territories, with the Asian market accounting for the largest share, followed by Africa. The country also targets to export around 5 million tonnes of rice in the next five years./.
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January 07, 2022 15:57 UTC
Cambodia remembers Vietnamese volunteer troops on 43rd anniversary of victory over Khmer Rouge
Cambodia always remember the Cambodia United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS) soldiers and Vietnamese volunteer troops who shed their blood and sacrificed their lives to topple the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime and prevent it from rising again, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on January 7.Celebrating the anniversary of the Victory Day (January 7, 1979 – 2022), the Cambodian leader said this day 43 years ago marks the great victory of the Cambodian people over the Pol Pot genocidal, closing down a dark page and opening up a new one - that of independence, freedom, democracy and social progress. January 7 has been taken as the second birthday of Cambodians, noted the PM who is also President of the Cambodia People’s Party (CPP), adding that without the Victory Day, Cambodians would not have had everything like they are having today.Khmer Times on the same day reported that 43 years ago, Vietnamese volunteer soldiers, together with Cambodia n resistance fighters launched a general campaign to overthrow the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, paving the way for peace in the war-torn country.The day is marked every year to celebrate the victory over the genocidal regime in which an estimated 1.7 million people died of execution, starvation, forced labour and diseases, the Cambodian news outlet said.Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the CPP celebrates the victory day in small, modest ceremonies across the country, it said.Cambodian leaders, including PM Samdech Techo Hun Sen and National Assembly President Samdech Heng Samrin, sent greeting messages on the occasion through their Facebook pages, which highlighted that Cambodia has regained its prestige on the international arena and been actively contributing to building peace and sustainable development in the region and the world, according to the Cambodia news agency AKP./.
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January 07, 2022 15:07 UTC
Vietnam-India ties grow strongly over 50 years: Ambassador
The ambassador said that various activities have been conducted to celebrate the anniversary, including high-level visits and the signing of a 500-million-USD credit agreement in the defence area. Meet India - a bridge for closer partnership between Vietnam and India (Source: VUFO)Along with the activities to boost bilateral relations, Vietnam and India has sought new cooperation areas. A statue of President Ho Chi Minh in New Delhi and another of Indian national hero Mahatma Gandhi will also be inaugurated, he said. Vietnam can learn from India in digital technology, science-technology, space and nuclear energy, while sharing with India its experience in social management and poverty reduction. Ambassador Chau also stressed the need for both sides to continue increasing delegation exchanges at all levels and through all channels as well as the people-to-people exchange./.
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January 06, 2022 14:30 UTC
Germany navy frigate pays first visit to Vietnam
Frigate FGS Bayern arrives at Nha Rong Wharf in HCM City on January 6 morning. (Photo: VNA)Crew members of frigate FGS Bayern are welcomed at Nha Rong Wharf on January 6 morning. (Photo: VNA)– Frigate FGS Bayern with over 200 crew members of the German navy arrived at Nha Rong Wharf in Ho Chi Minh City on January 6 morning, starting its first-ever friendship visit to Vietnam.During the four-day trip, Commander Tilo Kalski will make courtesy calls to the leaders of the HCM City People’s Committee and Naval Region 2 of Vietnam.Speaking after the ship welcome ceremony, German Ambassador to Vietnam Guido Hildner said the frigate’s visit demonstrates the two countries’ friendship and also emphasises the Indo-Pacific region’s increasing significance to international relations.The voyage also expressed Germany’s wish to enhance cooperation with important partners and affirm the rules-based international order, especially the legal value of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), an important legal document on seas and oceans.FGS Bayern departed from Germany’s Wilhelm port for the Indo-Pacific region on August 2, 2021. Before Vietnam, it arrived at the Horn of Africa, Pakistan, Australia, Guam, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Singapore. Sri Lanka and India are set to be its next destinations on the way back to Germany./.
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January 06, 2022 09:17 UTC
Vietnam supports US to overcome natural disaster consequences
At the handover ceremony (Source: VNA)A ceremony was held on January 5 in Hanoi to hand over 100,000 USD from the Vietnamese Government and people to support bereaved families of tornadoes that occurred in Kentucky, the US, last December.On December 12, 2021, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent messages of condolences to US President Joe Biden over the losses of human lives and property caused by the natural disaster Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung believed that under the leadership of President Biden, the US government and people will soon surmount consequences of the disaster in Kentucky He underlined friendship, cooperation and mutual support between the governments and people of Vietnam and the US to overcome difficulties, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in the recent past.For her part, Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Vietnam Marie Damour thanked the Vietnamese Government and people for their timely support, voicing a hope that the sound bilateral relations, including cooperation between the countries’ Red Cross organisations, will continue to flourish./.
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January 06, 2022 02:13 UTC
Gathering held in HCM City to mark Cuba’s 63rd National Day
Truong Thi Hien, Chairwoman of the Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Association in HCM City, addresses the gathering on January 5 (Photo: VNA)The gathering in HCM City on January 5 (Photo: VNA)– The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) held a gathering on January 5 in celebration of the 63rd National Day of Cuba (January 1, 1959 - 2022).Truong Thi Hien, Chairwoman of the Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Association in HCM City, said the Vietnam - Cuba relationship is a special and rare of its kind in the world’s contemporary history.For the last more than 50 years, the faithful and close-knit ties between the two fraternal countries, one in the Western Hemisphere and the other in the Eastern, have remained strong and profound. Their traditional solidarity, friendship, and comprehensive cooperation have continually been solidified and developed in all fields.In 2021, Cuba provided medical supplies and vaccine, shared experience, and transferred technology to help Vietnam weather serious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For its past, Vietnam has strived to promote bilateral trade and investment links, especially in health care and biotechnology, to assist Cuba in addressing economic difficulties, she noted.This year, HUFO and the Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Association of HCM City will work with the Cuban Consulate General in the city to organise many friendship activities and step up partnerships in economy, health care, and education.Ariadne Feo Labrada, a representative of the Cuban Consulate General, described 2021 as a successful year of the countries’ relations as seen in the strong development of bilateral ties in all aspects, especially since the fruitful visit to Cuba by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc in September, during which the two sides reaffirmed the continued enhancement of the solidarity, mutual support, and all-round cooperation between the two Parties, States, and peoples.The Latin American nation will always exert efforts to reinforce the political, economic, investment ties, as well as the solidarity and friendship between the Cuban and Vietnamese people, she remarked.She also took this occasion to thank HCM City and southern localities of Vietnam to support the Consulate General and people of Cuba in Vietnam./.
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January 05, 2022 20:44 UTC
VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES JANUARY 5
According to the Ministry of Health, Vietnam recorded 14,861 cases of COVID-19 and 244 related deaths during 24 hours from 4pm January 3 to 4pm January 4. Many imported Covid-19 cases in HCMC await genomic sequencingHCMC reported 37 imported cases of Covid-19 that were awaiting genomic sequencing on their positive samples as of yesterday, January 3, said the HCMC Center for Disease Control. The organising board will present three first prizes worth 10 million VND (439 USD) each, five second prizes worth 5 million VND each, 10 third prizes worth 2 million VND each. Food watchdog to increase post-inspection on food safetyThe Vietnam Food Administration under the Ministry of Health said that it will increase post-inspection on food safety. HCMC recorded that a total of 51,376 Covid-19 cases are performing self-isolation and treatment at home.
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January 05, 2022 04:50 UTC
Contest launched to promote Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year
Illustrative image (Photo: vietnamnet.vn)– The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has launched a contest themed “Yeu tet que nha – Yeu ban sac Viet” to popularise inspirational stories as the Lunar New Year ( Tet ) festival is approaching.The contest offers a chance for Vietnamese people to share memorable moments, cultural identities and traditional customs of localities across the country during the Tet festival.It is expected to contribute to introducing and disseminating Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year to the domestic and international communities.Vietnamese citizens aged 18 and above are encouraged to join the contest. The organising board will present three first prizes worth 10 million VND (439 USD) each, five second prizes worth 5 million VND each, 10 third prizes worth 2 million VND each. and 15 consolation prizes worth 1 million VND each./.
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January 04, 2022 15:25 UTC