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Introducing procedures and cultivation methods to effectively grow thieu lychee to delegates at a trade fair. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - A forum and exhibition seeking ways to help Vietnam’s thieu lychee go global aimed to find new export markets so as to increase the tropical fruit’s added value and raise incomes for growers . With the hope of making more available Vietnamese specialties in general and thieu lychee in particular to international consumers, the Ministry of Information and Communications together with the People’s Committee of Bac Giang and Hai Duong northern provinces, the two major lychee orchards of Vietnam, held a digital forum and exhibition in Hanoi on June 16. In 2022, Vietnam is set to enjoy a bumper lychee crop, thanks to favourable weather, with output estimated at about 320,000 tonnes. With such a huge amount and given short harvest time, bolstering trade and expanding current market share, searching for new markets and diversifying … [Read more...] about New markets sought to take Vietnam’s lychee global

SYDNEY -- Sydney is set to record its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia's east, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. By Thursday morning, Sydney had received 2,157 mm (85 inches) of rains for the year, just shy of the record 2,194 mm set in 1950, official data showed. "That record is likely to fall late Friday night and into Saturday," Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) forecaster Jonathan How told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television. It is only the fifth time the country's largest city has topped 2,000 mm in a year since records began in 1858. Australia's east coast has been in the grip of a multi-year rain event due to the La Nina weather phenomenon, typically associated with increased rainfall, that has caused floods in Sydney suburbs three times in the past two years and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. With a wild weather system expected to dump heavy rains through the weekend across a … [Read more...] about Sydney set to smash rainfall records as Australia braces for more floods

The event offered a chance for managers, researchers, and architects to share experience and propose solutions in developing public spaces, towards realising initiatives Hanoi commits to UNESCO when it joins the organisation’ Creative Cities Network (UCCN). Participants discussed many issues related to architectures that combine traditionality and modernity in public spaces; opportunities to create a community and creative city from public art and space; and principles of design, operation and management of public spaces towards sustainable urban development. Dr. Emmanuel Cerise - representative of the Ile-de-France region in Hanoi and co-director of the  Paris Region Experise (PRX - Vietnam), emphasised the importance to pay attention to ensuring sustainability in implementing art projects in public spaces in order to minimize degradation caused by the weather and human. He also pointed out opportunities for the formation of public art spaces in Hanoi in the near future when … [Read more...] about Hanoi to develop public spaces combining traditionality, modernity