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Illustrative image (Source: tinnhanhchungkhoan.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - Steel maker Hoa Phat Group is recruiting experienced personnel for a cargo container manufacturing project expected to start production in the second quarter of next year, according to the company. The new shipping container plant will have a designed capacity of 500,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) per year. Global demand for cargo containers is on the rise as a result of growing e-commerce and foreign trade, said Nguyen Manh Tuan , Vice Chairman of the Hoa Phat Group. “We have been conducting research in various fields and are confident we have the ‘firepower’ to make the container manufacturing project successful and competitive with manufacturers from China, the world’s leading container producer,” he said. The group’s recruiters are working against the clock to enable the construction of the plant to begin as soon as possible. According to Hoa Phat, shipping containers are made from weather-resistant and expensive SPA-H steel. Steel currently accounts for about 55 percent of the production cost. In Vietnam, only the Hoa Phat Dung Quat Complex has the technology to produce this type of steel at a reasonable cost, Tuan said. Hoa Phat has estimated it will need to produce 1 million tonnes of Hot-Rolled Coil (HRC) steel to reach an annual capacity of half a million TEUs. The group manufactured nearly 700,000 tonnes of HRC and more than 5 million tonnes of billet and construction steel last year. Its Dung Quat 2 project is scheduled to be operational in early 2022. Set to manufacture HRC steel using the latest advanced technology, it has a designed capacity of 5 million tonnes per year. Though the shipping container market is growing 5 percent annually, there has been a shortage of supply. In previous years, China had produced 90 percent of the world’s containers. The country, however, has cut output by 40 percent over the last two years, despite growing domestic …

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The Hanoitimes - The country has approximately nine million of people or around 9% population living in poverty. Poor people are listed among priority groups in Vietnam’s vaccination against Covid-19, which is planned to take place in March. People aged 65 and older are listed in priority groups for Covid vaccination in Vietnam. Photo: VGP According to the United Nations, around 9% of Vietnam’s population or roughly nine million people living in poverty in 2019, a drastic reduction from 57% in 1990. Factors that characterized the poor include large size of household, low education and skills, dependency on agriculture, remoteness in rural mountainous areas, lack of supporting infrastructure. The poor nowadays is also specifically associated with ethnic minorities in mountainous area rather than urban migrants. Under the government’s resolution dated February 26, the poor and social beneficiaries belong to nine groups of people prioritized for the inoculation in the country of nearly 100 million population. Other groups in the priority list include: - Health workers and frontline forces (members of the steering committee for Covid prevention at all levels, people working in quarantine centers, contact tracers, volunteers, reporters, among others); army officers; policemen. - Vietnamese diplomats abroad; customs and state officials working in immigration service. - Essential providers in aviation, transportation, tourism, clean water, electricity, among others. - Teachers and employees in education sector; people working in administration agencies having frequent contact with others. - People with underlying diseases and those above 65 years of age. - People in the pandemic-hit areas. - The poor and social beneficiaries. - People in overseas mission. - And other people decided by the Ministry of Health basing on the requirements of the pandemic control. People, who are subject to the first shots (the first phase) of …

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For many farmers in Hoi An in the central province of Quang Nam, buffaloes are also the highlights of eco-tours hosted by the Jack Tran Tours company. So in the Year of the Buffalo, they have more tales about the animals to tell than ever. Tran Van Khoa (third from the left, in green T-shirt) shows his visitors how to ride a buffalo. Photo courtesy of Jack Tran Tours Tran Van Khoa, sales manager and owner of the company, told Viet Nam News that the idea for the tour came to him on a field trip he took a group of foreigners to visit Tra Que vegetable village on the outskirts of ancient Hoi An Town 10 years ago. “The foreign tourists seemed to be interested in buffaloes eating grass,” he said. “They asked the owners to take photos with the cattle. They often tipped the farmers one or two US dollars for each photographing session. I thought the buffalo might be a special tourism product that will bring more income to farmers.” Over the time, the company has gathered nearly 20 farmer families who own some 100 buffaloes for wet rice tours, which offer tourists the chance to work in the field with buffaloes. Before the pandemic, each year the company received 2,000-3,000 guests, bringing each family VND10-15 million ($434-651) a year. Such a tour lasts for five hours when tourists try various farming tasks. Two junior tourists enjoy riding a buffalo in Tra Que Village. Photo courtesy of Jack Tran Tours “At first local farmers were not willing to join the service,” Khoa recalled. “They thought foreigners would never like dirty work in the field. I spent lots of time to persuade them.” Now the tour attracts mostly group tours and families at a ticket cost of VND1.3 million each including lunch at homestays. Local farmer Le Nhien, in his mid-50s, who has raised buffaloes since his childhood, is among the farmers who have worked the longest with the company. “We often choose strong male buffaloes for the job,” he said. “They are …

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