Natural disasters that are caused by climate change

Tra Vinh is doing its utmost to deploy initiatives across a range of green areas, Photo: Nguyen Chau Last year, Tra Vinh topped the country’s Provincial Green Index (PGI) following its launch by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Since that time, the locality’s steering committee focused on admin reform, provincial competitiveness, and digital transformation has come up with a comprehensive suite of measures, along with enacting an action plan and calling on local management agencies at all levels to join forces. According to Tra Vinh Department of Planning and Investment, in the first eight months of this year, the province granted business registration to 365 units, reaching 70 per cent of full-year projection. It pushed the total number of businesses in the province to more than 4,540 with as much as $2.64 billion in total registered capital, employing nearly 93,000 labourers, including 44 foreign-invested enterprises. In respect to business development, Tra … [Read more...] about Tra Vinh proactive in green development

President Vo Van Thuong offers incense in commemoration of late President Ho Chi Minh at Na Nua tent within the Tan Trao special national relic site in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on September 24 (Photo: VNA) Tuyen Quang (VNA) - President Vo Van Thuong on September 24 offered incense and flowers in commemoration of late President Ho Chi Minh, the founder of modern Vietnam, at Na Nua tent within the Tan Trao special national relic site in the northern province of Tuyen Quang. At the site, Thuong also offered incense at the Tan Trao Communal House in Tan Lao village, Tan Trao commune, where the Congress of People’s Representatives – the predecessor of the National Assembly of Vietnam – took place on August 16 and 17, 1945, and paid his respect to revolutionary predecessors at their memorial site. He then paid tribute to President Ton Duc Thang at the relic site of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee in Dong Ma village, Trung Yen commune, where the committee … [Read more...] about President offers incense at Tan Trao special national relic site

Moderate to heavy rains triggered by a tropical depression in the East Vietnam Sea are dampening the central, Central Highlands, and southern regions until Wednesday, according to the national weather center. The national steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control on Sunday night issued a telegram asking the relevant ministries and provincial departments in these regions to proactively respond to downpours and the tropical depression. The tropical depression was spotted around 170 kilometers south of Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago at 7:00 pm on Sunday, packing strong winds at 39-49 kilometers per hour. The tropical depression is forecast to move westward at 10-15 kilometers per hour in the next 24 hours. It will be about 140 kilometers from Quang Ngai Province and 210 kilometers from Da Nang City in central Vietnam at 7:00 pm on Monday, with winds blowing at levels six and seven, gusting at level nine. The tropical depression might make landfall … [Read more...] about Tropical depression brings downpours to central, southern Vietnam

Vietnam has the advantage of a long coastline and sufficient water surface area for developing both brackish and freshwater aquaculture. (Photo: vneconomy.vn) HCM City (VNA) – The growth in Vietnam's seafood export turnover in recent years has been created from the foundation of the aquatic farming, exploitation and processing industry. Vietnam’s aquaculture industry has not only served the sizable domestic market with a population of about 100 million but also gradually conquered the world market, said Truong Dinh Hoe, General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). Hoe said that along with the growth of global seafood consumption demand, Vietnam's aquaculture product export turnover has maintained growth for many years and reached 11 billion USD in 2022, 12 times higher than that of 1998. Not only growing in output, Vietnamese aquacultural products are also considered a source of protein with stable quality and increasingly high … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s aquaculture top position on world map