While the female referees will head to 2023 Women's World Cup, the women's national football team are also eyeing a slot in the league after FIFA increased the number of teams from 24 to 32. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese female referees to oversee Women’s World Cup finals
Thailand under 19 football team
HCMC enhances health quarantine procedure
The Center for City Disease Control was assigned to work closely with management boards of quarantine wards to perform supervisions on these special areas as well as carry tests on all people according to the Ministry of Health’s regulations. All state competent bodies must be determined not let the disease spread in the quarantine wards from which spread to the community. … [Read more...] about HCMC enhances health quarantine procedure
VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 15
To accomplish its targets, this year HAGL Agrico will focus on creating a master zoning plan for large-scale farming and husbandry areas. It will ensure topography and soil are suitable for each kind of fruit to facilitate mechanisation and modern management and synchronise technical infrastructure to meet the needs of irrigation, garden care, harvest, transportation, and preservation at farms. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 15
Tourism fees to help insure foreign visitors
Bangkok (VNA) – The Thai National Tourism Policy Committee has approved the proposed guidelines for the collection of a 300 THB (10 USD) tourism fee from each international visitor for the management of local tourist destinations. The money will also be used to provide insurance benefits to international tourists visiting the country. Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said each foreign visitor will be charged 300 THB (10 USD) per visit. The details of the fee collection will be announced in the Royal Gazette once the policy has taken effect. According to Phiphat, Thailand expects to receive some 10 million visitors this year. He said the merit of the 300-THB tourism fee is that foreign tourists who fall sick or are injured will be taken care of and given adequate medical care, adding 34 THB of which is expected to be used for the insurance coverage. Tourism permanent secretary Chote Trachu on January 14 said the fee collection was initially … [Read more...] about Tourism fees to help insure foreign visitors
Pork prices fall as Vietnam increases imports
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The imported pork and declining meat consumption have pushed pork prices down, helping stabilise the consumer price index. This month pork has been sold at the Hoc Mon wholesale market in Ho Chi Minh City for around 72,000 VND (3.17 USD) per kilogramme, 8,000 VND down from previous months, according to its management. Le Xuan Huy, deputy general director of the CP Livestock Joint Stock Company, said hog prices are down because of increased imports of both frozen pork and live pigs as well as lower demand. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the first seven months of this year Vietnam imported more than 93,248 tonnes of pork, mainly from Canada, Germany, Poland, Brazil, the US, Spain, and Russia, 223 percent up from the same period in 2019. The ministry licensed imports of pigs on the hoof from Thailand from mid-June. As of August 36 companies registered to quarantine more than 4.7 million … [Read more...] about Pork prices fall as Vietnam increases imports