CAN THO – Although tra fish processing firm have resumed their operations after a long Tet holiday and dozens of export contracts were signed early this year, the price of tra fish material has dropped sharply to VND26,000-26,500 per kilogram.
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China is bracing for renewed calls to ease its rare earths controls after the World Trade Organization ruled Beijing's limits on key raw material exports broke trade rules
HCMC – Furniture export is projected to decline against last year since wood processors become more cautious about taking new orders after the long Lunar New Year holiday, the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association (Vifores) said.
HCMC – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has estimated the total export value of agro-forestry-fishery products to reach US$1.8 billion, down 16.3% year-on-year.
Exports were a main outlet for the ailing cement industry last year, Nguyen Thanh Tung, director of Vietnam Cement Corporation's administration office, said at a recent conference.
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Vietnam earned 6.5 billion USD in exports in January, down by 28.5 percent from last December and 11.1 percent for the same period last year, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Vietnam hopes to send 90,000 labourers abroad this year, nearly 2,000 more than last year's figure, according to the Overseas Labour Management Department.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade has set an ambitious plan to help locally – made products penetrate overseas supermarkets.
Tran Ngoc Thanh and his self-established organisation labeled themselves as protectors of Vietnamese labourers abroad to lure, entice and illegally bring hundreds of workers from Vietnam and Malaysia to Eastern Europe.
HCMC – The Post Entry Quarantine Center 2, under the Plant Protection Department, said rambutan exports to the U.S. surged strongly on the days before the Lunar New Year holiday, with 9-10 containers exported every day.
National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung paid a visit to Ha Tinh province on Feb. 4, encouraging local authorities and people to boost production at the beginning of the lunar new year.
President Truong Tan Sang on Feb. 4 visited the Vietnamese ethnic culture-tourism village in Hanoi ’s outskirt district of Son Tay.
