Botswana mulls lifting elephant hunting ban

Earlier, Mong Cai authorities had written to border stations along the border lines with China to cooperate with the police, competent forces and the authorities of communes and wards and relevant units to ban all boats and ships from operating on the rivers. … [Read more...] about Mong Cai bans ships from operating on border rivers

Revenues jump by up to 37 percent In recent days, many supermarkets have seen lots of footfalls. At certain times of the day, customers have to wait in line for their turn to pay. Ms. Nguyen Minh Ha, a customer of Co.opmart Nguyen Dinh Chieu in District 3, shared that this year her family decided not to travel but to stay in the city to celebrate the Tet holidays. So, when she had free time, she visited supermarkets to buy decorative products for her house and food to make many delicious dishes for her family. Mr. Nguyen Anh Duc, CEO of Saigon Co-op, said that in the first week of January this year, the purchasing power of the whole network surged by 37 percent compared to the previous week. Revenues surged robustly in a wide range of essential commodities, from fresh and processed foods, cosmetics, kitchen appliances to garments. The purchasing power at supermarkets in other provinces and cities has also increased well, especially at newly-opened supermarkets, such as Thap Muoi … [Read more...] about Purchasing power for Tet goods flourishes

Việt Nam's tourism industry has done "some very good policy making but they've generally ignored their own policies", said Peter Burns, a tourism planning consultant and professor who worked on a five-year EU-funded sustainable tourism project in Việt Nam. … [Read more...] about Tourism on track in the world’s largest cave

On Saturday, the city where Covid-19 was first detected in late 2019 marks one year since it was locked down to crush the outbreak. It was the first -- and one of the most severe -- coronavirus quarantines in the world, with transport to and from the city sealed off on January 23. Seventy-six days of fear and panic followed before the virus scourge was brought under control. Today, hospitals and pharmacies are empty of Covid-19 patients, the panic-slicked days of last year banished. The city has bounced back and is eager to move on from being known as ground zero of the deadly virus. No official commemorations of Wuhan's first lockdown are planned. But vestiges of that nightmarish period are still visible. The boards blocking off the Huanan seafood market in the centre of the city serve as an eerie marker of the first known cluster of cases before the virus billowed out of control, spilling beyond China's borders and claiming more than two million lives across the world. And … [Read more...] about Wuhan bustles a year after world’s first coronavirus lockdown

17% of the respondents were interested in buying a home in Q4 2020, a level of interest comparable with that recorded in the previous quarter and showing little change during the third and fourth waves of the outbreak. Approximately 325,000 members of the public had gone to view a show flat in November last year, representing a decline in numbers compared with nearly 400,000 respondents in the third quarter, but still showing a 35% increase compared with the number recorded during the same period in 2019. This can be seen as reflecting an interest in buying a home despite the fourth wave of the outbreak among a significant number of citizens who were actually going house-hunting. … [Read more...] about Fourth Quarter 2020 Citi Residential Property Ownership Survey