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Streets in Vinh Long (Source: baovinhlong.com.vn) Vinh Long (VNA) - The Vinh Long Provincial People’s Committee in the Mekong Delta has issued a plan to implement the national action programme on sustainable production and consumption for 2021-2030. By 2030, 90 percent of industrial parks in the province are set to apply clean and environmentally-friendly technologies. All supermarkets and shopping centres are to use eco-packaging instead of single-use plastics, and the use of slowly-degrading packaging at wet markets will be cut by 80 percent. The province also hopes to have 100 percent of its enterprises joining production and distribution chains for safe farm produce and it also targets the widespread use of QR codes for product origin tracing. Local business invests in machinery to increase productivity and product quality (Photo: VNA) Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Liet said local authorities will assist businesses in boosting their production capacity and product quality, and in reducing costs to engage in a network of sustainable production and consumption. The provincial Department of Science and Technology has been tasked with planning and launching programmes assisting companies and localities in the innovation process. Priorities have been set for waste recycling, the sustainable use of natural resources and energy, and technological application in resources management, goods manufacturing, and consumer protection./. VNA …

HCMC metro’s driving instructor to receive salary of over VND500 million The Saigon Times The first train of HCMC’s first metro line is transported to Long Binh Depot in District 9. Foreign experts providing training to drive the trains of HCMC’s first metro line would be paid a salary of over VND500 million each - PHOTO: THANH HOA HCMC – Foreign experts providing training to drive the trains of HCMC’s first metro line, which connects the landmark Ben Thanh Market in downtown HCMC and the Suoi Tien Theme Park in District 9, would be paid a salary of over VND500 million each. The salary was among the outcomes of the negotiation between the Management Authority for Urban Railways of HCMC (MAUR), which is the project’s investor, and NJPT, which is the project's consulting unit, on signing the annex of Contract No.19 for the metro line. MAUR suggested that the head expert receive 2.5 million Japanese yen per month, equal to some VND542 million, and other experts be paid 2.35 million Japanese yen, or VND509 million. According to the investor, these are the lowest salary levels earmarked for foreign experts under an original contract that it signed with NJPT in 2007. Also, the salary amounts are equivalent to those of a project in Indonesia’s Jakarta and approved by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which is the project’s sponsor. For local experts who will teach the driving, the investor suggested the deployment of a lump sum contract. Besides this, the costs to organize driving tests for 58 metro drivers who are joining a training course to drive the trains will be worked out before the tests take place. Aside from salaries for driving instructors, MAUR suggested the foreign experts of NJPT each receive an allowance of 11,500 Japanese yen per day, or some VND2.5 million. This amount is lower than NJPT’s previously suggested figure of 12,000 Japanese yen. …