Can Tho City authorities held an inauguration ceremony on October 11 for Can Tho City Oncology Hospital funded by Hungarian ODA. The inauguration ceremony for Can Tho City Oncology Hospital Former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, representatives of the department of health and Can Tho City People's Committee attended the ceremony.The Hungarian government will provide nearly USD57m with the remaining USD70.5m sourced from counterpart funding. The hospital, with 500 beds, will become the biggest oncology hospital in the Mekong Delta.During the visit to Vietnam on September 25, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and promised to build an advanced hospital in Can Tho. Hungary will also cooperate in education and commerce sectors.Szilveszter Bus, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said co-operation would help strengthen the friendship between Hungary and Vietnam. Szilveszter Bus, Deputy State … [Read more...] about Hungary funds oncology hospital in the Mekong Delta
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Mekong Delta has much room for food processors
Mekong Delta has much room for food processorsTrung Chanh CAN THO – The Mekong Delta region’s food processing sector has great growth potential owing to an abundance of produce there, but investment in the sector there remains modest, heard a conference in Can Tho City on December 12. Nguyen Phuong Lam, deputy director of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI)’s branch in Can Tho City, stressed at the conference on promoting investment to expand the food value chain that the delta has much room for food processors. He said the region is home to 20% of the country’s population, and boasts gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of an estimated US$2,700 in 2017, which suggests the region may have strong purchasing power in the future. He added the region has average export turnover of around US$13-15 billion a year. Its main products are rice, seafood and fruit which account for around 50% of outbound sales of the agricultural sector, equivalent to … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta has much room for food processors
Disbursement for Mekong Delta infra project slow
Disbursement for Mekong Delta infra project slowTrung Chanh CANTHO – Although all four packages of the Mekong Delta Transport Infrastructure Development Project funded by the World Bank and Australia have been completed, funding has not been fully disbursed. Le Huy Thang, general director of the Management Board for Waterway Projects under the Ministry of Transport, told a meeting in Can Tho City on August 10 that the project, also known as WB5, had been implemented from 2007 to 2016 at a total cost of US$554.4 million. Of this sum, US$359.6 million came from the WB’s concessional loans and US$45 million from the Australian government’s non-refundable aid. The State budget was responsible for US$149.8 million in reciprocal capital. However, Thang said so far just over VND10.1 trillion (US$455.1 million) has been disbursed for the project, including VND7.33 trillion (US$329.8 million) in official development assistance (ODA) funds and VND2.815 trillion (US$126.3 … [Read more...] about Disbursement for Mekong Delta infra project slow
Conference seeks to improve food value chain in Mekong Delta
Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Can Tho (VNA) – An investmentpromotion conference to improve the food value chain in the Mekong Delta washeld in Can Tho city on December 12, attracting more than 150 experts,businesses and investors from Vietnam and abroad. Speaking at the event, head of the Ministryof Industry and Trade’s Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency Vu Ba Phu said withfavourable business conditions, the Mekong Delta is attracting more and moreforeign investors. General Director of Trung An high-techagriculture company Pham Thai Binh said several enterprises from China, Europeand Australia want to buy Vietnamese rice but the country doesn’t produceenough high-quality rice to meet demand. To improve the product value chain, heunderscored the need to create a manufacturing value chain.Bulgarian Commercial Counsellor from theBulgarian embassy in Vietnam Oleg Marinov said in recent years, the EuropeanUnion has been the second largest market of Vietnam, … [Read more...] about Conference seeks to improve food value chain in Mekong Delta
Mekong Delta urged to step up paddy farming
Mekong Delta urged to step up paddy farmingTrung Chanh CAN THO - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has called for provinces in the Mekong Delta to expand paddy farming in areas with favorable weather conditions given positive projections for outbound sales of the staple food later this year. The ministry wants more rice to be produced in the summer-autumn and autumn-winter crops in the country’s key rice producing region. Huynh The Nang, chairman of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA), said at a conference on rice production in An Giang Province on June 22 that rice exports in the January-March period soared 30% year-on-year owing to the contracts signed in the previous quarter. But export markets have turned sour since April as the number of new commercial contracts has declined while the government-to-government rice market has been very quiet. Nang, however, said rice shipments in the first half of this year total around 2.75 million … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta urged to step up paddy farming
Mekong Delta urged to confront climate change
Mekong Delta urged to confront climate changeBy Chinh Phuc - The Saigon Times DailyCAN THO – Local and foreign experts at a two-day conference ending last Friday in Can Tho City called on localities in the Mekong Delta to heighten preparedness to cope with consequences of climate change as the region is forecast to be hit the hardest by natural disasters in the future.Experts attending the forum suggested many solutions to help the delta tackle negative impacts of the disasters. The event is a significant step towards the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, said Danish Ambassador Peter Lysholt Hansen.The Australian government pledged to cooperate with Vietnam to cope with developments of climate change and raise public’s knowledge of the matter. The Australian Center for International Agricultural Research will fund US$3.5 million for a research on a new rice variety that can grow in the changing climate, said Australian … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta urged to confront climate change
Long An – Leading Growth Engine in Mekong Delta
From a purely agricultural province, Long An has made every effort to utilise internal resources and attract maximum external forces to impressively develop industry, become the best economic performer in the Mekong Delta and one of the best performers in the Southern Key Economic Zone. To learn more about these achievements, Vietnam Business Forum interviews Mr Tran Van Can, Chairman of Long An Provincial People’s Committee. Hoang Lam reports. Could you introduce Long An province’s potential and advantages for economic development? The Long An economy is closely linked with provinces and cities in the Southern Key Economic Zone and plays an important role in connecting the Southern Key Economic Zone with Mekong Delta provinces and neighbouring Cambodia. Long An province’s natural conditions are also favourable for balanced agricultural and industrial development. The raw materials are abundant and sufficient for the agricultural and food processing industry … [Read more...] about Long An – Leading Growth Engine in Mekong Delta
Dong Thap Muoi Medical Research, Conservation and Development JSC: Unique Destination in Mekong Delta
Dong Thap Muoi Medical Research and Conservation Development Joint Stock Company is headquartered in Moc Hoa District, 60 km from Tan An District. With biodiversity, especially rare medicinal plants, this place has become a unique eco-tourism area of Long An province in particular, the Mekong Delta. Precious forest Dong Thap Muoi Medical Research, Conservation and Development JSC has an area of about 1,041 hectares, including more than 800 hectares of primitive forest. This is a characteristic of the seasonal submerged ecosystem of Dong Thap Muoi with seasonal habitat change. The ecological features here are extremely diverse with primitive melaleuca leucadendron (endemic species), perfumery pasture, seasonal submerged meadows. One other remarkable features of the company is a canal system of about 4.5 km and a lake of 100 hectares, helping to form "veins" of the area. It is also an area growing organic herbal plants under GACP standard and operates Moc Hoa Tram factory … [Read more...] about Dong Thap Muoi Medical Research, Conservation and Development JSC: Unique Destination in Mekong Delta
Distribution maps available in Mekong Delta provinces
Distribution maps available in Mekong Delta provincesBy Hoang Phi - The Saigon Times DailyHCMC – The Business Studies and Assistance Center (BSA) has finished drawing maps of distribution networks in six provinces in the Mekong Delta, comprising Tra Vinh, Can Tho, Vinh Long, An Giang, Tien Giang and Long An.Vu Kim Hanh, director of BSA, said a map for each province would be sold at VND40 million. Any firms wanting to buy maps of six provinces will be offered a preferential price of VND200 million, Hanh said.First buyers, including ten HCMC-based firms and five firms in the northern region, will be provided free consulting on how to use the map effectively. Information showed on the maps will be regularly updated and adjusted.Besides, BSA is not planning to sell its study to multinational firms who are interested in it but may provide for small enterprises for free, she said.The maps indicate detailed information concerning Vietnamese consumer goods situations and scales of each … [Read more...] about Distribution maps available in Mekong Delta provinces
BASF supports schools in Mekong Delta
BASF supports schools in Mekong DeltaYen Minh Chemical company BASF said on July 28 that it had started a renovation project for a primary school located in a needy area in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang. The project, which is co-sponsored by other companies and facilitated by Saigon Children’s Charity CIO, will create new classrooms for the Long Thanh 3 Primary School in Phung Hiep District. One new classroom for 45 primary students and the two other classrooms for 25 preschoolers will be equipped with renovated hygiene facilities. BASF will also co-sponsor the renovation of the nearby kindergarten Tan Long, which is home to 60 toddlers. The school will consist of two classrooms with built-in hygiene facilities and a 200 square meter playground. A total of around 430 square meters of classroom space will be renovated for about 130 students in Phung Hiep District of the Mekong Delta province to enjoy better learning facilities as well as improved hygiene and safety … [Read more...] about BASF supports schools in Mekong Delta