There remains large room for Vietnam to promote the export of medicinal herbs to Japan, especially when many Japanese pharmaceutical companies are planning to import these products from the Southeast Asian country, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Japan.
The mountainous northern province of Lao Cai hopes to almost double its medicinal herb growing area in the next 10 years, expecting to achieve a yearly output of more than 11,000 tonnes.
Indonesia plans to halt its visa exemption policy for citizens of all countries for one month and expand restrictions for those who have travelled to some of the world's countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, in an effort to curb the disease’s spread in the country.
Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of northern Hung Yen province Pham Van Hieu recently led a trip to some of the province's budding tourism destinations.
The brand of Ngoc Linh ginseng needs protection as a national one, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a conference on developing Ngoc Linh ginseng and other medicinal herbs in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on September 6.
The Truong Sinh Group on March 1 started construction of a hi-tech medicinal herb and food processing complex at Tra Da Industrial Park in Pleiku city, the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.
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