Roks ministry of food and drug safety

In the upcoming time, the ministry will continue requiring its departments in provinces and cities to keep a close eye on price as well as supply and demand and focus on stabilizing pork prices. The departments should ask businesses to have plans to ensure supply and stabilize pork prices during and after Tet. In addition, they should work to prevent transport and trade of ill pigs and pigs with unclear origin to make sure food safety. Moreover transport of illegal pigs through the border to neighboring nations should be prevented. … [Read more...] about Pork price reduces VND10,000-20,000 a kilogram

Hanoi (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse will pay a State visit to Bangladesh from March 4-6 at the invitation of his counterpart Mohammad Abdul Hamid to mark the 45th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties (February 11). The visit affirms Vietnam’s consistent external policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralisation and diversification of international ties, including attaching importance to strengthening relations with Bangladesh. In recent years, the two sides have exchanged delegations, including the Vietnamese National Assembly delegation’s trip to Dhaka to attend the 136th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentarian Union in April 2017, Deputy Foreign Minister Dang Dinh Quy’s visit to co-chair the first political consultation between the two foreign ministries in August 2017 and the Vietnam visit by Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in July 2017. Bangladesh recently sent high-level delegations to … [Read more...] about President to pay first State visit to Bangladesh

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam won two ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Standard Awards at the 2020 ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF 2020) which took place in Brunei from January 12 – 16. The16,000-sqm border information cluster in Sa Vi Cape in Tra Co, Mong Cai city in the northern province of Quang Ninh received an award for urban sustainable product, while the Thanh Dong Organic Farm situated in Hoi An, the central coastal province of Quang Nam brought home one for rural sustainable product. The awards are recognition of the best sustainable tourism activities in the region involving the local community, accommodation, food and beverage and public toilets run by public and private tourism stakeholders. It encourages stakeholders in the tourism value chain to be more environmentally-conscious and responsible in their business operations to achieve sustainability. At the ATF 2020, three cities in Vietnam were also presented with the ASEAN Clean Tourist Awards. They were Vung Tau city in the … [Read more...] about Vietnam bags more tourism awards at ASEAN Tourism Forum