In recent years, many Vietnamese agricultural apprentices have chosen Ibaraki prefecture as a favourite destination because it is one of the Japanese localities with developed agriculture.
Vietnam stood out as the world’s largest cashew exporter last year but there remains many challenges ahead for the country to retain its leading position in the future.
After being relatively stable last year, the foreign exchange rate of the Vietnamese dong against the US dollar is forecast to be under greater pressure in 2020 due to both internal and external headwinds.
Taiwanese state-owned oil refiner CPC Corp. has pledged to invest 22 billion USD in the development of the Balongan petrochemical refinery, said Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.
Vietnamese expatriates and businesses in Cambodia gathered at the Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations in Phnom Penh on January 17, as the biggest Vietnamese traditional festival only about a week away.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Pham Vinh Quang had a working session with the host Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Edhy Prabowo on January 17.
Vietnam and Japan have achieved many positive outcomes in agriculture cooperation, and the two sides will continue working together to build sustainable food value chains in the near future, according to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Domestic and foreign investors signed memoranda of understanding on 19 investment projects worth over 205 trillion VND (8.84 billion USD) in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh at an investment promotion conference held by the province on January 15.
The Ministry of Public Security is drafting a governmental decree on personal data protection in order to protect the legal rights and interests of individual and organisations.
The 4th Thai Nguyen – Vietnam Tea Festival will be organised in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on April 17-19 to promote Vietnamese tea products, honour villages, producers and the tea processing industry as well as introduced local tea to domestic and international market.
The southern province of Binh Duong raked in 3 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) last year, doubling the year’s 1.5-billion-USD plan, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Truc.
The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum's has instructed district authorities and relevant agencies to promote agriculture and sell their farm produce in the domestic and global markets.
With the current good growth, the wood processing industry will achieve its export goal of 20 billion USD by 2025, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong at a working session with the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VIFORES) in Hanoi on January 9.
The Ho Chi Minh City Labour Federation has presented more than 12,000 bus and train tickets worth nearly 9 billion VND (USD) to disadvantaged workers at local industrial and processing zones, helping them to return home for Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
Export of livestock products was a standout while shipments of key farming products dropped further last year, according to the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority.
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