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Vinh Long province plans to promote shipment of high-quality rice. (Photo: VNA) Vinh Long (VNA) - The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long is striving to boost sustainable export growth during 2021-2025. The province has set the target to reel in 870 million USD from exports by 2025, with key export markets including ASEAN, Japan, China, China’s Taiwan, Russia, East European countries, Africa, the EU and the US. According to Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Nguyen Trung Kien, seeing rice as a key export, Vinh Long plans to ship average 100,000-200,000 tonnes of high-quality rice per year abroad until 2025, and work to increase price of local rice while diversifying rice products to branch out markets. Holding a huge advantage of tra and basa fish farming, the province eyes to sell some 20,000 tonnnes of frozen tra fish to foreign markets by 2025. Kien said Vinh Long is making efforts to gain 35-40 million USD from exports of grape fruits, canned fruits, dried fruits, and vegetables by 2025, adding areas were zoned off for cultivation of vegetables and orchards such as grape fruit, orange, tangerine, longan, and mango, among others. Additionally, the locality targets 530-600 million USD in export revenue of leather footwear and garment-textile, and 60 million USD in export revenue of handicraft products by 2025. In a bid to realise the set goals, an array of measures were outlined, Kien said, stressing due attention will be paid to developing agricultural processing industry and finished goods to better the products’ value and their competitive edge in the market. Kien said along with support policies for local production, the province will improve technical services to promote mechanisation of agriculture, particularly post-harvest processing and preservation. Investment promotion will be given priority so as to attract investment in supporting industries for footwear, garment-textile, electronics and …

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Red Spring Festival expects to collect over 4,000 blood units Young people donate their blood In his opening remarks, Director of the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) Bach Quoc Khanh, who is head of the festival’s organizing board, said that the festival has been held annually since 2008 to address blood shortages after the lunar New Year holiday, and gradually changed public awareness of blood donation. After 13 editions, the festival has collected over 85,000 blood units and become the annual biggest blood donation event. Khanh took the occasion to express his gratitude for donators nationwide. The 14th edition is taking place from March 1-7 at the NIHBT headquarters, and three fixed places - 26 Luong Ngoc Quyen in Hoan Kiem district, 132 Quan Nhan in Thanh Xuan district, and Valley 122 of Lang Street in Dong Da district. The organizing board expects to receive over 4,000 blood units during this year’s festival, which then will be allocated to nearly 180 hospitals and medical establishments of 28 provinces and cities in the northern region. It has also made thorough preparations to welcome donors so as to ensure COVID-19 prevention and control as recommended by the World Health Organisation and the Health Ministry./. Fatal coach crash kills three, injures 4 in Dong Thap A serious traffic accident caused by a passenger coach took place on National Highway 54 in Tan Thanh Commune of Dong Thap Province’s Lai Vung District this morning, March 1, killing three and injuring four people. The passenger coach with plate number 51B-17273 driven by Tran Van Nam, aged 41, was heading from Vam Cong Bridge to Vinh Long Province when it plowed into a group of 10 bike riders and killed a rider, identified as Tran Van An, aged 59. The passenger coach continued slamming into two electric poles and a tree on the pavement, damaging the front of the coach. Local residents immediately took some injured passengers …

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High-rise buildings are covered by haze and fine dust in Hà Nội. —VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu HÀ NỘI — The air quality between March 1 and 6 in north-eastern localities and the Hồng (Red) River delta as well as Thanh Hoá Province is forecast to be poor. Environmental experts said the weather phenomenon would cause particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) to stay at ground level, leading to unhealthy air and negative impacts on human health. Trần Thị Tuyết Hạnh, lecturer at the Environmental Health Department, Hà Nội University of Public Health, said PM2.5 fine dust was considered the air pollutant which has the most negative impact on human health. Because of its very small size, the fine dust was very dangerous, it was able to deposit, absorb and go deep into the alveoli in the lungs and into the bloodstream, she said. She also added that experts from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the fine dust contained heavy metals that could cause cancer, or affect DNA and cause genetic mutations. On March 1, data from the website www.moitruongthudo.vn of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội and applications of VN Air, PAM Air and Air Visual showed that many monitoring stations' air quality indices in the localities and Thanh Hoá Province were at red and orange levels. According to the Air Quality Index, orange is equivalent to poor (101-150). At this level, sensitive people might experience health problems while normal people will suffer little effects. Red is equivalent to a bad level (151-200). At this level, normal people’s health could be affected while sensitive groups might experience more serious health problems. At 8:00pm on Monday, the VN Air application, run by the Việt Nam Environment Administration under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, revealed that there were 22 orange air quality indexes and three red air quality indices in Hà Nội. The red air quality indices were found at the People’s Committee of Cầu …

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