Coats Phong Phu, a joint venture of UK-based Coats Group plc and Phong Phu Corporation, recently provided yarn worth over 1 billion VND (43,900 USD) for “zeng” weaving establishments in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, aiming to preserve and develop the local traditional weaving.
Farmers in the coastal district of Go Cong Dong, the largest clam producer in Tien Giang province, have received high selling prices after expanding the clam breeding area this year.
Vietnam’s Tra fish export value is expected to reach a record 2 billion USD this year. However, many other nations are producing tra fish, including Vietnam’s major import markets.
Biogas digesters have provided a valuable source of environmentally friendly energy for cooking and other uses of those living in rural areas in Vietnam.
Dried-fish processing villages in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are busy making fried fish to meet demand for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday which falls on February 16 this year.
Yen Bai province in the northwest hopes to turn one of its mountain villages, Nam Khat, into a second Sapa, provincial Party Secretary Pham Duy Cuong has said.
"Everything that I have today is due to my love and contribution
to cai luong," says cai luong performer Le Van Gan, one of Ho Chi Minh
City's young talents in the traditional operatic art.
Urgent measures are needed to conserve mangrove forests, which have been
rapidly disappearing in the past few decades, experts said at a forum
organized recently in Ca Mau province.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved in principles to allow the
Vietnam National Coal and Minerals Industries Group (Vinacomin) to sell
all of its charter capital at Vinacomin Finance Company (CMF) to Vietnam
Prosperity Bank (VPBank).
The Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin)
expects to sell around 10 million tonnes of its products in the
April-June period and export at least 1.5 million tonnes.
Colourful frangipani plants placed in pots of various sizes that enchant
so many flower lovers are results of an economic model which has been
in place for almost 10 years by farmers in Hung Long commune, Binh Chanh
district in southern Ho Chi Minh City. Report by the Vietnam Pictorial.
A group of biologists have spent days trailing a troop of primates in
Kon Ka Kinh National Park, before they eventually caught up with about
30 gray-shanked douc langurs having an afternoon meal in the treetops
some 30 metres above the ground.
Vietnamese technology has won the 2009
Energy Globe Awards (EGW)-sponsored by the UN Environmental Programme
(UNEP) for using rice husks to replace fossil fuels.