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Tran Ban Hung This is not a new development for us. We have been rescuing agricultural products almost every year. Market glut is a normal situation in the country as farmers nationwide do not have a long-term production plan. However, I felt a little heartbroken when driving along the streets of Hanoi last week and seeing stalls selling farm produce at very low prices, like VND5,000 ($0.22) per kilo of carrot and VND3,500 per cauliflower, with notices asking people to "rescue" Hai Duong products. The director of the Hai Duong Department of Industry and Trade, Pham Thanh Hai, said there were thousands of hectares of onion, carrot, different types of vegetables, fish, chicken and eggs still in stock whose consumption "depended completely on neighboring localities." "All we can do now is to call the directors of industry-trade departments (in the neighboring localities) and ask them to send a message to their higher authorities for accepting products from Hai Duong," Hai said. Hai Duong is where one of the first cases of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak was detected in late January. Since then, infections have risen to 681 in the northern province. A social distancing campaign began throughout the province on February 16. It was decided Monday that it would end on March 3. Amidst the Lunar New Year atmosphere, the most important festival in the country, many families in Hai Duong had to be placed under a lockdown, which meant their farm produce getting stuck because of "difficulties" in transportation. The thought strikes me: We have been fighting against the pandemic, yes, but in a way that we have also fought against the livelihoods of our people. People in central city of Da Nang "rescue" farm produce of Hai Duong in February 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Dong. Instead of letting each locality have its own policies to prevent and fight the pandemic, why don’t ministries and related agencies come up with an overall plan to …

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Accordingly, it will coordinate with the LIGHT Community Health Development Institute and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women to launch a campaign entitled ‘For the smiles of women’ on March 6. The launch event is being held in response to the theme of International Women's Day 2021 - “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”. It aims to celebrate the tremendous efforts by Vietnamese women in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as well as facilitating national development and prosperity. The campaign will be followed by an awards ceremony for the Kovalevskaya Award 2020 on March 5 in Hanoi, which has been held annually to honour female scientists with excellent achievements in research and in applying science in life, bringing benefits to different fields including the economy, society and culture. Over the past 35 years, the award has been presented to 20 organisations and 49 individuals in various fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, agriculture, medicine and information technology. A forum on ‘Promoting the implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) from a gender equality perspective" will take place on the morning of March 10, reaffirming Vietnam’s commitments to actualising its SDGs and gender equality. The union will launch two One-stop Service Offices (OSSO) in Can Tho and Hau Giang on March 3 and 5 respectively to provide free-of-charge support for returnee women migrant workers in these localities in areas such as healthcare, legal issues, education, vocational training, and childcare. On the occasion, the Vietnamese Women's Museum will receive photos, documents and objects donated by 24 individuals including photojournalists, designers, and collectors from home and abroad. Prominent among these are 358 photos featuring the daily lives of Vietnamese women, taken by photojournalist Dinh Quang Thanh from the Vietnam News Agency, and the daily …

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The revenue is almost twice the sum it has been assigned for per day this year, municipal vice chairman Vo Van Hoan said at an online meeting Tuesday. He said the government has tasked HCMC with earning VN365 trillion in budget revenues this year, which means it has to earn VND1.5 trillion each day. As of now, the city has collected VND74.5 trillion, up 10.5 percent against the same period last year. "Given what has been happening, the city will be able to complete the mission assigned by the central government," Hoan said. HCMC earned budget revenues of VND410 trillion in 2019, roughly 27 percent of the national figure and 3.3 percent higher than the target. Last year, due to the pandemic impact, it achieved just 91.5 percent of the target, earning VND371 trillion. HCMC’s population makes up 9.5 percent of the nation’s 96 million, its labor force accounts for 8.2 percent of the nation’s, but for several years now, it has repeatedly been the biggest money maker, contributing 25-27 percent of the state’s annual budget collection on average. According to the city administration, in the first two months alone, all socio-economic development indicators in the city had posted better growth over the same period the previous year. The total sales value of goods and services increased 4.7 percent while export turnover reached $8 billion, three times higher than the same period last year. The city’s industrial production index rose by 6 percent and more than 3,800 companies resumed operations in the first two months. However, the city’s service industry is still suffering heavily from the pandemic and in the two months, the tourism sector saw revenues drop 70 percent year-on-year, while the hotel sector recorded a decrease of 14 percent. Vietnam closed its borders and suspended all international flights in March 2020 to curb infection spread and has remained in that state ever since. HCMC was granted autonomous decision-making powers in September 2017 …

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