E-commerce is growing rapidly, posing challenges to State management agencies, as heard a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 14 reviewing the five-year implementation of the government’s Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce.
As the African swine fever (ASF) has started to spread in China, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) organised an emergency meeting in Bangkok on September 5 to discuss the threat of the virus across Asia.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Department of Animal Health announced that the Vietnam Animal Health Information System has opened online, during a press conference in Hanoi on August 28.
The rapid onset of the African swine fever (ASF) in China may spread to neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia and the Korean peninsula, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned on August 28.
The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids, and Social Affairs (MoLISA) held a consultation workshop in Hanoi on August 27 to look into risk-informed and shock-responsive social protection in Vietnam.
A ceremony was recently held in Nijmegen city, the Netherlands, to mark 50 years of people-to-people relations between Vietnam and the European country, which began with the establishment of the Netherlands-Vietnam Medical Committee (MCNV) in 1968.
The Vietnamese Government’s decision on July 9 to join the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to prevent and fight IUU fishing has received positive response from the FAO Committee on Fisheries and the international community.
The Vietnamese Government has agreed to join the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to prevent and fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of agriculture, forestry and fishery is estimated to expand from 3.95 percent to 4.05 percent in the first six months of 2018, the highest level in 10 recent years.
Indonesia and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) renewed cooperation in support of forest governance and timber legality, according to a recently-released press statement.
The National Agriculture Extension Centre and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) launched a communications programmne on disaster prevention, supply of materials and breeding chickens to farmers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on May 25.
The US’s Global Policy Journal website has said Vietnam may become a model for ASEAN countries in fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project, using loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), aims to seek a comprehensive solution for livestock waste disposal.
Vietnam and Mali have agreed on a number of measures to beef up bilateral cooperation in economics and trade during recent meetings between Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Quoc Tru and senior Malian officials in Bamako.
Cultivation law should be issued to facilitate plantation and improve values and competitiveness of agricultural products to meet domestic and export demand.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is cooperating with its member states in the Asia-Pacific region as well as relevant social organisations to improve the agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change and reduce its reception of impacts of the weather phenomenon.
Vietnam has been actively working to implement the European Commission (EC)’s recommendations since it announced a yellow card on Vietnamese fisheries on October 23 last year.
Overuse and misuse of antibiotics in food is rife in Southeast Asia, a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) official said on January 31, warning of serious risks for people and animals as bacterial infections become more resistant to treatment.
