The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with the Ha Noi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a conference on ensuring food safety. — VNS Photo Many key products of the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh have entered the system of supermarkets and large commercial centres in Ha Noi, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Vuong Dac Hung told a recent conference. The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with the Ha Noi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a conference on ensuring food safety between the city and province in the northern mountainous province. The conference highlighted the results of the implementation of the programme which coordinates trade, promotes agricultural product consumption and State management in the agricultural sector between the capital city and Hoa Binh Province in the 2016-20 period and the … [Read more...] about Ha Noi and Hoa Binh connect trade and consumption of agricultural products
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Exploitation, misery drove Vietnamese workers to flee hellish Cambodian casinos
Diep is among a group of 40 Vietnamese who swam across a river from Cambodia to Vietnam on Thursday morning to escape from a casino where they were tricked into working and which they described as "hell." There were 42 escapees, but one was caught by the casino guards and another is missing. "None of us could sleep last night, it was too traumatizing," Diep, 20, told VnExpress Friday. She and her husband are staying with the rest at a communal house in An Giang Province in southern Vietnam after fleeing the casino in Cambodia's Kandal Province. Doan Thi Ngoc Diep (R) at a camp of An Giang Province in southern Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Tai The casino, managed by Chinese nationals, stands along the Binh Di River, a natural border that is around 70 meters wide during the rainy season between Cambodia and Vietnam. The Vietnamese had planned the escape over two nights, making their move in the morning when the casino’s gates are open and there are only … [Read more...] about Exploitation, misery drove Vietnamese workers to flee hellish Cambodian casinos
Ho Chi Minh City’s foreign enclaves settle into ‘new normal’
Since Vietnam officially declared the COVID-19 pandemic under control earlier this year, foreign enclaves in Ho Chi Minh City have, once again, begun to bustle, with old stores resuming their operations and new shops opening every day in commercial spaces that sat unoccupied for months on end. Once Vietnam dropped its on-arrival COVID-19 testing requirement for foreign travelers and reopened its international air routes in mid-May, the number of foreigners entering the country began to increase, paving the way for foreign enclaves in Ho Chi Minh City to return to their pre-pandemic life. In Tan Phong Ward, District 7, home to a significant portion of the South Korean community in Ho Chi Minh City, many stores that shut down between late 2020 and early 2022 are once again open for business, and new shops are moving into commercial spaces that have sat empty for months. Kim Yong Min, a South Korean national living in District 7, shared that his eyeglasses stores, which mainly … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City’s foreign enclaves settle into ‘new normal’