(LSO) – Trang Dinh district in northern Lang Son province has been striving to produce high-quality grass jelly – made from a local plant named “thach den” (platostoma palustre) – for export. Lang Son Newspaper’s reporter interviewed local people and businesspeople to learn what they would recommend to achieve this. Hoang Van Can, Secretary of Kim Dong commune’s Party...

(LSO) - Trang Dinh district of Lang Son province is home to over 1,200ha of the platostoma palustre plant, which is used to produce grass jelly. The main export market is China, but platostoma palustre leaves have just been shipped via the small-scale cross-border trading channel. To promote the export to the Chinese market, Trang Dinh has been taking...

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Local shrimp-breeding enterprises have mobilised investment from various sources to expand production in an aim to attract partners from shrimp supply chains from around the world. A shrimp breeding pond in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang (Photo: VNA) After four decades of development, Vietnam’s shrimp breeding industry has been recognised as the third...

Hanoi (VNA) – Industrial production value of the northern province of Hai Duong hit 174.6 trillion VND (over 7.5 billion USD) in the first nine months of 2019, equivalent to 84.1 percent of the plan set for the year, and up 12.3 percent against that of the same period last year. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Sectors that saw stable...

(LSO) - A working team of the provincial People’s Committee led by Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Pham Ngoc Thuong on October 4 inspected the pace of the Hoang Dong hotel-golf course project. According to the Department of Planning and Investment, the project was first granted a licence in early...

Da Nang (VNA) – Businesses are the main force of the nation to help promote economic growth, social development, and employment, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said while attending the Vietnam Business Forum 2019 in the central coastal city of Da Nang on October 5. Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung speaks at the Vietnam Business Forum 2019....

HCM City (VNS/VNA) — The Southeast Asian internet economy has expanded by 39 percent this year to hit 100 billion USD for the first time, according to a recent report by Google, Temasek and new partner Bain & Company. Vietnam and Indonesia lead Southeast Asia with internet economy growth rates of more than 40 percent, according to a recent...

(LSO) - The first section of the Bac Giang-Lang Son expressway, stretching 64km from Bac Giang city of Bac Giang province to Lang Son province’s Chi Lang district, has been basically completed. However, the second section of the expressway, running from Chi Lang to Huu Nghi with a length of 43km has yet to be implemented due to capital-related...

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s total revenue from retail trade and services in the first nine months of this year reached 3.6 quadrillion VND (around 155.3 billion USD), 11.6 percent over the same period last year. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) If the price factor was excluded, the total revenue rose by 9.2 percent year on year, higher than the rate...

Hanoi (VNA) – The Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission and relevant agencies co-organised a high-level discussion within the framework of the Industry 4.0 Summit 2019 in Hanoi on October 3. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (centre) speaks at the high-level discussion (Photo: VNA) Speaking at the event, themed “Vietnam’s policy and action programme to proactively join the fourth...