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Freshwater mangroves, known among scientists as barringtonia acutangula, usually begin to blossom in the sixth lunar month. The blooming season lasts for about four months in the year, with drooping clusters of tiny red flowers sprout up one after another.
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People in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam are busy fishing when the flooding season has come.
On the fields of An Giang Province’s Phu Hoi Commune, nets have been laid to catch fish, crabs and snakes.
Huynh Van Tai, a local resident who has much experience in fishing during the flooding season, said that this year the flooding arrived earlier than expected so many people had not yet prepared for the work.
Bui Thi Suong in Dong Thap Province’s Hong Ngu District said that earlier, his family earned bigger income from fishing on the flooding season. She even hired dozens of workers for the work. However, in recent years, the seafood source has much decreased.
These days, she and her husband are taking advantages of the flooding season to catch some fish for sales in the market.
Some photos of the busy farmers in the Mekong Delta region in the flooding season:
On the fields of An Giang Province Tiếp tục đọc “Mekong Delta during the flood season” |
As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of beans, peach orchards and vegetable gardens withering away.
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| John Weiss looks over his crop of soybeans, which he had reported to the state board for showing signs of damage due to the drifting of Monsanto’s pesticide Dicamba, at his farm in Dell, Arkansas, U.S. July 25, 2017. |
The photographs served as early warnings of a crisis that has damaged millions of acres of farmland. New versions of the herbicide dicamba developed by Monsanto and BASF, according to farmers, have drifted across fields to crops unable to withstand it, a charge authorities are investigating. Tiếp tục đọc “Scant oversight, corporate secrecy preceded U.S. weed killer crisis”
For the majority of Vietnamese, Samsung means smartphone, TV and washing machine. However, the South Korean investor has been taking steps towards the logistics markets.
Before joining hands with Minh Phuong, Samsung teamed up with ALS, also a logistics company, to manage the goods terminal at Noi Bai Airport, one of the two largest airports in Vietnam.
| Samsung’s involvement in the management at the goods terminal at Noi Bai helps Samsung ensure delivery time and smooth operation of the supply chain. Noi Bai is the biggest export portal for Samsung’s electronic exports manufactured at its two factories in Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen. |
Samsung’s involvement in the management at the goods terminal at Noi Bai helps Samsung ensure delivery time and smooth operation of the supply chain. Noi Bai is the biggest export portal for Samsung’s electronic exports manufactured at its two factories in Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen.
However, the cooperation with Minh Phuong is another story. The owner of the company was once praised by Bloomberg as the ‘logistics Queen’ of Vietnam. To take part in the domestic logistics market, where road transport makes up 65 percent of the market share, joining hands with Minh Phuong was the most efficient choice. Tiếp tục đọc “Samsung sets up logistics company as market heats up”
A report shows that the city produces 7,500 tons of waste, while the figure is expected to increase to 10,000-12,000 tons by 2020.
Hazardous solid waste is around 150,000 tons per year, including 6,300 tons of hazardous healthcare waste per year.
Dumping waste remains the major solution to waste treatment. However, experts say the technology, which was considered suitable many years ago, is no longer reasonable. Tiếp tục đọc “HCM City vows to reduce waste landfill, replace with recycling”
Dear readers,
This issue, dated July 2016, actually got to you in early June 2017, almost a year late and 4 and a half months into the reign of King Trump whom we dub in Vietnamese “Chí Phèo”.
Never before has someone wreak such havoc on his country and on the world in such a short time after taking office. We hope he would not last as long as the Khmer Rouge in the not so distant past. He just came back from his first trip overseas as President, lifting despotic regimes in the Middle East, antagonizing virtually every European allies and pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord on climate, thus joining Syria and Nicaragua to face the rest of the world.
Ở Sài Gòn có rất nhiều con hẻm ngoằn ngoèo, quanh co nhưng rất “độc”, ví dụ như hẻm “lười” – nơi tổ hợp các thể loại nhà hàng, quán nước, cửa hàng thời trang,… Hay một con hẻm nhỏ xíu, nhưng đó lại là thế giới ẩm thực của một quốc gia khác nằm trong lòng Sài Gòn, rồi có con hẻm lại là nơi tập trung của hầu hết các bạn trẻ vui chơi thâu đêm suốt sáng,… Quả thật rất đáng để khám phá thử đúng không? Tiếp tục đọc “Khám phá những con hẻm độc đáo nhất Sài Gòn”
Hong Binh, 35, an office worker in district 3, HCMC, said he drinks beer with his friends at least once a week, sometimes at Bo Ke, a popular restaurant, and sometimes at a restaurant on Nguyen Van Cu street in district 5.
“This is our hobby. We can enjoy them time when drinking beer,” he said, adding that he and his friends help the owners of the beer clubs get rich.
| According to Euromonitor, the increase of the middle-class income earners and young people has increased demand for wine and beer by 300 percent since 2002, while the market value was estimated at VND147.2 trillion in 2016. |
Sabeco, the brewer with the largest market share, has capitalization value of $3.15 billion, becoming the enterprise with the fifth largest capitalization value on the HCMC bourse, just after Vinamilk, the nation’s dairy producer, PV Gas, Vietcombank and VinGroup. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnamese drinkers enrich brewers”
VietNamNet Bridge – Economists have said that the increased trade deficit with South Korea is not expected to lead to changes in Vietnam’s economic structure.
China remains Vietnam’s biggest supplier of goods, but South Korea has the highest growth rate of exports to Vietnam. In the first six months of the year, Vietnam imported $22.5 billion worth of products from South Korea, an increase of 51.2 percent over the same period last year.
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Linh, secretary general of VEXA (Vietnam Exporters’ Association), commented on Tuoi Tre that while the volume of goods Vietnam exports to SK has increased modestly, the imports have risen sharply. Tiếp tục đọc “Is the trade deficit with South Korea a concern for Vietnam?”
The price of pepper in Vietnam has gone up and down recently, allegedly due to unexpected Chinese purchases.
Pepper harvest at Loc Phat cooperative in Loc Hiep commune, Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province
Tiếp tục đọc “Sneaky Chinese buyers swaying Vietnam’s pepper prices”
VietNamNet Bridge – Here are the best coffee shops in Hanoi for tourists and locals to discover.
Café Giang
Address: 7 Hang Gai Street Tiếp tục đọc “Must-visit coffee shops in Hanoi”
Located at 206 Tran Hung Dao B in HCMC’s District 5, the 100-year-old alley Hao Si Phuong attracts passers-by by a small drinks stall in front of the alley
The 100-year-old alley in the city’s District 5, better known as Hao Si Phuong, is worth visiting as tourists can take a close look at Chinese-influenced unique architectural features and gain an insight into daily lives and spiritual values of the Chinese community there. Tiếp tục đọc “A 100-year-old alley in town – Hẻm Hào Sĩ Phường, Sài Gòn”
The community-based education centre of Ha Giang city, the northernmost province of Ha Giang, made debut on August 8, becoming the first of its kind in Vietnam.
Students in the northernmost province of Ha Giang
Director of the centre Hoang Dieu Thuy said it provides English language teaching, special education (for children with autism, intellectual disabilities, and reading disorder), mental health care and library services, meeting the public’s need for high-quality educational services.
Those activities are monitored and assessed and will be adjusted when necessary by 14 experts, most of whom are working abroad. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s first community-based education centre opens in Ha Giang”
The Forest Ranger Sub-department of southern Dong Nai province has completed a project to protect the black-shanked douc langurs found recently on Chua Chan mountain, in Xuan Loc district.
A family of black shanked douc langurs lives in Nui Chua National Park
The project, which will be submitted to the People’s Committee for approval, aims to create a favourable habitat and feeding area for the langurs, scientifically known as Pygathrix nigripes, an endangered species to help them grow in number.
Functional agencies will minimize human presence in the langur-inhabited area of around 24 hectares and take measures to prevent illegal hunting as well as communicate to help the community understanding the mission of protecting wild animals. Tiếp tục đọc “Dong Nai moves to protect black-shanked douc langurs”
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| Defence Minister, Gen. Ngô Xuân Lịch (right) met US Secretary of Defence James Mattis in Washington D.C. on August 8. — VNA/VNS Photo |
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