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Hanoi (VNA) – Fifty-three partners of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) have committed to working together to contain and prevent the spreading of COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement released on September 7, they recognised that combating the COVID-19 pandemic will require concerted international cooperation, effective actions by multilateral organisations, and support for multilateralism by ASEM partners, based on UN principles and values. The partners reaffirmedtheir commitment to working together and sharing experiences, best practices and information in a free, responsible, transparent and timely manner in order to decisively and effectively control the spread of the pandemic.  They supported the United Nations’ call for shared responsibility, global solidarity and strengthened multilateral cooperation in response to the multidimensional impacts of COVID-19, especially the importance of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in coordinating the health response to the … [Read more...] about ASEM partners vow to join hands in controlling COVID-19

“VEC has only one resource, which is the toll fees and charges. The non-stop automatic toll collection system is part of the expressway project, so the Ministry of Transport proposes that VEC is allowed to use the toll collection of the expressway projects to invest and pay for the operation of the toll collection system, ”said Deputy Minister Thọ. … [Read more...] about Officials discuss implementation of automatic toll collection systems

Bangkok (VNA) - The Thai government is pushing ahead with the bio-economy concept to modernise agriculture with advanced technology in a move to improve the national economy, local media reported. Bio-economy, which uses renewable resources and turns them into value-added products, is expected to help farmers better deal with unstable crop prices and convince various industries such as automotive and electronics to come up with new products. Authorities put agriculture and biotechnology, which are at the core of a bio-economy, on the list of 12 targeted S-curve industries, covering a range of businesses from cars and smart electronics to affluent and medical and wellness tourism. According to Alongkorn Ponlaboot, adviser to the agriculture and cooperatives minister, the S-curve initiative will be a new tool to grow the Thai economy.   “Such crops as sugar cane, cassava and rice can be developed into value-added products,” Alongkorn was quoted by the Bangkok Post … [Read more...] about Thailand works to modernise agriculture with advanced technology

Ninh Thuan (VNS/VNA) - The cultivation of Java olive trees in vacant lands, bare hills and mountains in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan is fetching farmers high incomes from harvesting their sap and has increased the forest cover. The tree sap is used as a beverage since it is high in nutritional value, and is also used in the cosmetics and food processing industries. Nguyen Thanh is among the farmers who have planted Java olive trees in mountainous fields in Ninh Phuoc district’s Phuoc Dan commune, and earns a good income from their sap. In 2010, with the support of the Thuan Nam District Protective Forest management, he planted 6,000 trees on his 2.5ha field, and began to tap the sap five years later. He harvests two to three times a year, and earning 60 million VND (2,600 USD) each time, he said.  Java olive trees grow easier than many others, require less tending and offer high incomes, he said.    Farmers can also use the leaves of the … [Read more...] about Java olive trees offer Ninh Thuan farmers high incomes, increase forest cover

In contrast with Nguyên, her husband Tùng has considered time as a medium for his series of paintings The Time of Passing Shadows (1 2 3 4...).  In this series, using pencil and digital prints on Mylar film, light, darkness and dust, he sets out a layered narrative of time that is coherent yet tacitly perplexing, with images and information interleaved with fact and fiction. … [Read more...] about Art exhibition offers new perspectives on time and history