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Commercial rice volume surges, price volatility predicted

Commercial rice volume surges, price volatility predicted

HANOI – This year’s winter-spring crop in the Mekong Delta will be a bumper one, yielding about 10.5 million tons of paddy (unhusked rice), including some four million tons of commercial rice, which may pull down the price, the agriculture ministry said.

Food agency dispels rumor on Chinese stocking up rice

Food agency dispels rumor on Chinese stocking up rice

The Vietnam Food Association Friday rejected the rumor that some Chinese traders have recently purchased Vietnam’s rice at large quantities

Low demand drags down rice price

HCMC – Slow global demand coupled with Myanmar’s rice export resumption has dragged down the rice price in Vietnam which just enters the summer-autumn crop as the second largest one in the year, traders said.

VFA upbeat about second quarter rice exports

HCMC - The Vietnam Food Association is confident that its target of exporting two million tons of rice in the second quarter will be fulfilled, after shipping 1.8 million tons abroad from January to March.

200,000-ton rice deal inked with Vietnam

200,000-ton rice deal inked with Vietnam

The Philippines has sealed a deal to import 200,000 tons of rice from Vietnam at above market prices but below a government-set budget

Rice prices harden in Mekong Delta

Rice prices harden in Mekong Delta

Exporters are buying to ship to Indonesia and Bangladesh while the industry has also been ordered to stockpile a million tons

VN to stock 1 mln tons rice to maintain prices

VN to stock 1 mln tons rice to maintain prices

Supply will not be enough and rice prices will rise towards the end of this year, insiders say

VN to stock 1 mln tons of rice to maintain prices

VN to stock 1 mln tons of rice to maintain prices

Supply will not be enough and rice prices will rise towards the end of this year, insiders say

Food traders say ‘no rush to export rice’

HCMC – Local food traders at a meeting in HCMC on Thursday reached a consensus that there should be no rush to export rice in the first few months of the year to ensure maximum benefits for the country, anticipating steeply-rising global demands in the year’s second half.

Rice export hits record high

Rice export hits record high

HCMC – Vietnam has this year exported 6.88 million tons of rice worth a record of US$3.2 billion, according to the Statistics and Informatics Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development.

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NA talks about changes to work law

NA talks about changes to work law

Employees harvest whitened-leg shrimps in the Hung Bien Ocean Items Co Ltd within the central province of Quang Binh. The draft amended Work Code, that was talked about through the NA yesterday, is anticipated to make sure workers' proper privileges including salaries, overtime and maternity leave. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hung HN — The Nation's Set up talked about a variety of concerns associated with work issues throughout a session which was

PM greets mind of Lao inspectorate

HN — Pm Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday confirmed that Viet Nam always supported co-operation between its relevant agencies and also the Inspection Commission from the Lao Individuals Revolutionary Party Central Committee and also the Government Inspectorate of Laos. Dung made the statement while finding the commission mind, Inspector-General Bounthong Chitmany.Dung stated co-operation would concentrate on training human assets within the sector in addition to swapping encounters within the combat and protection