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Speaking at a meeting Wednesday with the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said there is a shortage of vaccines globally, and countries are racing to secure supply. Vietnam needs to secure its supply as soon as possible, but has faced challenges and difficulties in doing so, and "risks" might have to be taken to gain access to vaccines, he said without elaborating. The ministry said the Covid-19 vaccine produced by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca, currently being used for Vietnam’s vaccination program, is safe and it would continue to vaccinate frontline workers, soldiers, police officers, and other priority categories, and in fact sped up the task. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam instructed the ministry to make clear plans for negotiations to secure the vaccines. Vietnam has vaccinated over 62,000 people with the AstraZeneca shot it has secured either through contracts with the manufacturer or global vaccine access mechanism Covax. Reports of blood clots following the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine have prompted certain countries to temporarily suspend its use, with Denmark on Wednesday becoming the first country to stop using it altogether. Vietnam has not reported any cases so far. The country is developing four indigenous vaccines through Nanogen, the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals, the Vaccine and Biological Production Company No. 1, and the Center for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biologicals. It aims to secure 150 million doses to cover 70 percent of its population by next year. …

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Every day for nearly two decades, a 47-year-old woman has pulled cart containing up to 60kg of vegetables each for charity kitchens in Ho Chi Minh City. People call her 'the quiet veggie lady.' She quickly pulls her cart, heading to a kiosk inside Thu Duc Wholesale Market in Ho Chi Minh City as on the other end of the line, someone told Phuong that they saved her some bunches of leafy greens. The market’s traders have generously given 'Mommy Phuong' tonnes of veggies. 19 years collecting vegetables 'Mommy Phuong' is the way traders call Huynh Thi Thanh Phuong, a woman who has spent 19 years collecting vegetables for local charity kitchens. In the early days, she saw people throw vegetables, including those still edible, away. She sorted them out, for herself and for nearby pagodas which offered hot, free and vegan meals to the poor. Seeing what she did, sellers in Thu Duc Wholesale Market eventually started giving Phuong vegetables instead of throwing them all away. She always holds a mobile phone in her hand, waiting for a call from a seller. In her late 40s, Phuong can still run so rapidly that even some youngsters who give her a hand could not compete. She had to sort through and select vegetables that were still good at first; now, traders set aside bunches of good greens for her. There is even a seller lending Phuong her kiosk to gather vegetables which will later be donated to poor people, pagodas, churches, and child protection centers. The more vegetables the woman receives, the broader area she can help. On her productive day, vegetables can even be shipped to a pagoda in Dong Nai Province, about 30km away. Huynh Thi Thanh Phuong receives a bouquet of flowers from Scottish volunteer Mat Donald on International Women’s Day (March 8). Photo: Kim Ut / Tuoi Tre Giving hands As people get to know Phuong and her good deeds, she is gifted more agricultural products. Some days, the total amount reaches up to …

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Digiworld aims to grow 25 per cent on average annually in the next decade Two months ago, Digiworld’s executive told securities firms that a partner producing and assembling Xiaomi tech products is opening a plant in Vietnam’s northern port city Haiphong, and that the plant would commence operation in the second half of this year. Albeit the information was not yet confirmed by Digiworld’s leadership at the company’s recent annual general shareholders’ meeting on April 4, the company’s CEO Doan Hong Viet was quoted as saying, “This is informal information; Xiaomi and Digiworld will be making an official announcement on a suitable timing in the future.” In fact, Digiworld is the exclusive distributor of all Xiaomi products in the Vietnamese market. According to Viet, home appliances would be one of hte key segments of Digiworld by 2024 with the target of holding a "remarkable market share", in which TV sets would secure the largest share in value. The home appliances market, with teh main items being TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, ovens, and the like, has been totally untouched by Digiworld until the present. Viet explained that the overly high import duty of about 15 per cent was the reason why Digiworld had yet to engage in importing products for distribution and wholesale in the Vietnamese market. At the recent AGM, CEO Viet also lifted the curtain on Digiworld’s intention to venture into other product segments to realise the target of reaching a market cap in the billion-dollar range. “If there was a plant assembling Xiaomi products in Vietnam, the tariff barrier would disappear, providing the bedrock for us to break into this up-and-coming segment. This will be the answer for the question how Digiworld would attain an annual growth pace averaging 25 per cent in the upcoming decade,” said Viet. On the sidelines of Digiworld’s annual general meeting (AGM), Viet said that the company will be making an official foray into the …

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