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Each day these women start their work from 10 p.m. One of their main responsibilities is to drag along deliveries of fruit, vegetables, and seafood to stalls throughout the market. Hundreds of trucks carrying fruit and vegetables usually park at the entrance of the market each night. It is then up to the labourers to fulfill the task of unloading the items and then distributing them among the various businesses at the market. Female labourers typically come from neighbouring northern provinces such as Hung Yen, Thai Nguyen, and Vinh Phuc. Indeed, they are forced to work far away from home in order to make ends meet. Theu from Phu Tho shares that her husband passed away when she was young, leaving her with the job of raising two children alone. In other areas throughout Long Bien market, a group of women are busy preparing squid and fish cakes which go on sale in the next morning. Lan of Hanoi says that International Women’s Day is just like ...

This information was released at a meeting between the administration of Quang Ninh province and Takebe Tsutomu, special advisor of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Alliance on February 28. The festival represents be a good chance for young people to gain a greater understanding about Japanese culture and to thereby build bridges connecting the two countries. The event will feature Japanese tea, Origami (Japanese paper folding craft), Japanese comics, and other products from Hokkaido Prefecture which will be put on display. At the meeting the two sides discussed the establishment of a representative office of Ha Long University in Japan, with the goal of enhancing the exchange of students and teachers, as well as supporting Japanese and Vietnamese businesses to expand operation in both countries. The post Ha Long city to host Hokkaido festival in November appeared first on Vietexplorer.com . View more from VietExplorer: Vietnamese GP to be left off 2021 For...

The coffee road, which will span Phan Dinh Giot Street in the Buon Ma Thuot City center, will be launched as a sidelines event before the opening of the eighth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival from March 10-14. It is also part of a project to promote the city as a coffee destination of the world. Visitors to the street will be served the most delicious and typical local coffee products. “About 300 cafés in the city will serve free coffee to residents and visitors during the upcoming coffee festival,” said Tran Duc Nhat, deputy chairman of Buon Ma Thuot. Phan Dinh Giot Street has been chosen to become a coffee street in Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam. Photo : Trung Tan / Tuoi Tre The opening and closing ceremonies of the fest, which has been held biennially since 2010, will take place at 8:00 pm on March 10 and 14 at the March 10 Square in downtown the city. Buon Ma Thuot is known as the ‘coffee capital of Vietnam,’ with a coffee area of about 210,000 hectare...

Ambassador Pham Toan Thang spoke at the opening session of the FVFPG (Photo: Bao Quoc Te). On 2 March, at the headquarter of the French National Assembly, Ambassador Dinh Toan Thang attended the opening session of the new FVFPG in the French National Assembly. This is the first official meeting of the FVFPG to identify objectives, exchange ideas and outline plans of action in 2023. Attending the session were Group President Anne le Hénanff, 4 Vice-Presidents including André Chassaigne, Éric Coquerel, Hadrien Ghomi, Luc Lamirault, and several parliamentarians who were members of the FVFPG. Expressing his delight and pride in the traditionally friendly relations between the two countries and the two peoples and highly appreciating the role of the FVFPG in the French National Assembly in strengthening bilateral ties, Ambassador Dinh Toan Thang briefed the parliamentarians on the current situation in Vietnam, recent Vietnam-France relations as well as Vietnam’s development ...

Secretary of the Party Committee of the northern province of Ninh Binh Nguyen Thi Thu Ha on March 5 receives Mori Masako, Special Advisor to the Japan Prime Minister (Photo: VNA). Ha, who is also a member of the Party Central Committee, said the province has worked with some Japanese delegations to discuss cooperation promotion activities in localities including Okayama and Kagoshima prefectures, Saiki city, and Tokyo. In the second quarter of this year, Ninh Binh province will coordinate with the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) to organise a trade promotion conference for Japanese investors. Besides economic cooperation, the province also expects more experience exchange in women-relating issues including family health care, reproductive health, and responses to natural disasters and climate change. Masako said the 470,000-strong Vietnamese community in Japan is the second largest group and greatly contributes to the country’s socio-economic development, addi...

In January, Vietnam imports 35,440 tonnes of meat and meat products worth USD 74.13 million (Photo: VNA). The imports from the US made up 22.45% of the total meat and products that Vietnam imported from 29 markets all over the world in the month. Citing data from Vietnam Customs, the Import-Export Department stated that in January, Vietnam imported 35,440 tonnes of meat and meat products worth 74.13 million USD. It saw a reduction of 45.7% in volume and 45.4% in value compared with those of December 2022. Regarding import prices, in January 2023, the average import price of meat and meat products to Vietnam reached 2,092 USD per tonne, up 0.5% compared to December 2022 but down 1.6% compared to that in January 2022. Particularly for pork, in the month, Vietnam imported 4, 910 tonnes of fresh chilled or frozen pork, worth 1.57 million USD from 15 markets. Of that, nearly 35% were imported from Russia, about 23.5% from Brazil, and 21.52% from Germany. VNA The ...