Lao cai agricultural and ocop products exhibition

The event aims to demonstrate the pioneering role of youngsters in Ho Chi Minh City to nurture the friendship and solidarity between the two countries, as well as between the city and Lao localities. … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City youths join voluntary activities in Laos

The health department has launched a mobile app called Medical Tourism Assistant which helps patients seeking basic information on healthcare services and hospitals in the city. It plans to develop the app in English to meet the demand from foreign tourists next year. … [Read more...] about Workshop discusses HCM City’s key medical tourism products

HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City’s Food Safety Management Board has inspected Thu Duc agriculture wholesale market for food safety. The inspection, part of efforts to ensure food safety during Tet (the Lunar New Year), was led by head of the board Pham Khanh Phong Lan, and officials took random samples of fresh vegetables and fruits sold at the market for testing. As the city’s largest agricultural market with a throughput of 4,000 tonnes per day, Thu Duc faces a high risk of getting low-quality products with untraceable origins. Lan said: “Vegetables and fruits are highly impacted by the overuse of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. The board has to step up sampling and testing activities to evaluate the potential health risk associated with the contamination. Each trader is asked to keep records on product origins. If a violation is found based on laboratory test results, the records will be used to remove products known to be … [Read more...] about HCM City steps up food inspection to ensure safe Tet

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - For two decades, farmer To Nguyen Ho Hai in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai grew peppers, enjoying a boon in production. Five years ago, the industry was doing so well, and the price of peppers so high, he more than doubled his investment, increasing from 900 pepper pillars to 2,000.    At the time, farmers took their profits and reinvested with prices hitting as much as 260,000 VND (11.2 USD) per kg at their peak in 2015. Hoang Phuoc Binh, Vice Chairman of the Pepper Association of Gia Lai province’s Chu Se district, recalled the time when peppers were hot in more ways than one.   “Every farmer, every household grew peppers,” he said. “The more profit they earned, the more money they poured in investing in buying land to grow more pepper.” According to Vu Ngoc An, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, when people saw households making profits of up to 500 million … [Read more...] about Quality key to pepper growth, not quantity

HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City will roll out a programme on building an ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) application for 2019-2020, heard a press conference in the Vietnamese southern metropolis on September 17. According to Duong Anh Duc, Director of the municipal Department of Information and Communications, since 2018, the city has proposed and issued mechanisms and policies on AI research and application in production, daily activities and smart city building. In 2019 and 2020, the southern hub plans to launch a contest aiming to seek solutions of AI application in management and production in knowledge-intensive sectors, thus bringing about high economic benefits, he said. The official said the city will identify priorities in AI application such as transport, health care, high-tech agriculture, tourism, environment, water supply and sewage, and electricity in order to overcome challenges to urbanization. Duc told the press conference that the municipal … [Read more...] about HCM City to put forth programme on building AI application ecosystem