New plans set for aquaculture
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to review investment projects to draw up a plan to develop the fresh-water aquaculture sector through 2012.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to review investment projects to draw up a plan to develop the fresh-water aquaculture sector through 2012.
Authorities in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and Southeastern regions need to tighten measures to reduce deforestation and strictly punish offenders, says Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The management board of Ha Noi's industrial parks and export processing zones should create favourable conditions for enterprises and local authorities to promote investment, said Nguyen Huy Tuong, vice chairman of the Ha Noi People's Committee.
Despite the four-fold increase in export value against the National Assembly's previous prediction, Viet Nam's trade deficit still totalled US$12.4 billion this year, accounting for 17.3 per cent of the country's total export revenue, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The Vietnamese Government is to implement drastic measures and transparent mechanisms to improve its public investment management, international participants at a seminar in Ha Noi yesterday were advised.
Deputy Minister of Health Cao Minh Quang has encouraged Indian-owned pharmaceutical enterprises to pour more investment in the local pharmaceutical industry.
THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed
HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of