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
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How Vietnam fought a pandemic and won
The aviation and tourism industry saw their workforce shrink by 30.4 percent in the first nine months of the year, while the figures were 29.9 percent for hotels, 17.4 percent for sports and entertainment, and 15.4 percent for the food and beverage industry. … [Read more...] about How Vietnam fought a pandemic and won
Businesses seek to spread Tet cheer to disadvantaged
Its group deputy CEO, Do Manh Cuong, said: “Mother Teresa once said, ‘Nobody is so poor that there is nothing left to give others.’ From these places, we have in turn received a great gift from the children and older people: their bright, happy smiles." — VNS … [Read more...] about Businesses seek to spread Tet cheer to disadvantaged
Việt Nam remembers just war against genocidal Khmer Rouge
Senoir Lieutenant General Nguyễn Trọng Nghĩa, member of the Military Central Commission and deputy head of the General Department of Politics, said since 1975, the Khmer Rouge conducted many raids into Vietnamese territory where they slaughtered a huge number of Vietnamese civilians. The Vietnamese Party and State had exercised restraint and a policy of peace and friendship but the regime escalated their invasion activities forcing Viet Nam into a defensive war. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam remembers just war against genocidal Khmer Rouge
The war in Cambodia was a ’war of justice’: Vietnamese General
Our counter-offensive along the southwestern border and the war against Pol Pot regime had three phases: The first, protecting our border and people; the second, liberating Cambodian people from the savage Khmer Rouge; and third, from 1980 to 1985, dealing with the remnants of the regime, which was receiving support from foreign countries to regroup in Cambodia’s border area near Thailand. … [Read more...] about The war in Cambodia was a ’war of justice’: Vietnamese General