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Many provinces and cities have launched programmes this year to promote local consumer demand to support businesses as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect exports.

The COVID-19 pandemic will continue creating trouble for the leather-footwear sector in Europe and the US – its key markets for export, in 2021, the Sai Gon Giai phong newspaper reported, citing experts’ opinions.

Farmers have been successfully utilising online channels such as Facebook to promote their products directly to consumers amid the COVID-19 outbreaks.

The 11th edition of a campaign on green consumption will take place from June 6 to 30, an event held by the Sai Gon Giai phong (Liberated Saigon) newspaper and Saigon Co.op group on June 3 heard.

Vietnam’s cashew nut producers will have to lower their 2020 export target of 4 billion USD as the impacts of COVID-19 make it extremely difficult to achieve, according to Pham Van Cong, Chairman of the Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas).

Ho Chi Minh City will continue to invest in transport infrastructure in its south, according to a report by its transport department.

Shipments of Tra fish from the Mekong Delta to the US and China, two of the biggest buyers of the products, have dropped compared to the figure last year.

A photo exhibition on the 1st National Assembly (NA) delegation’s friendship visit to France in 1946 is scheduled for March 18-24 on Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, reported Sai Gon Giai phong newspaper.

The Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) newspaper hosted a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on January 26 to honour 27 most popular Vietnamese brand names in 2019 selected by its readers.

The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s new visa policy for Vietnamese citizens is expected to help the two countries become greater economic allies, said RoK Ambassador to Vietnam Kim Do Hyon.

The number of dengue fever cases in Ho Chi Minh City shot up by 125 percent in October compared to a year earlier and could rise further this month, the peak season, the Preventive Health Centre has warned.

A US women’s delegation led by activist Merle Evelyn Ratner met with female journalists at the Sai Gon Giai phong newspaper office on December 20.

The electricity industry must improve its management and technology to reduce losses in the transmission grid as well as eradicate power stealing, which are very serious in rural and remote areas.

A ceremony to honour and award “The most favourite Vietnamese brand names in 2015” for 35 outstanding businesses in various fields took place on December 26 in Ho Chi Minh City.