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News about forest devastation cases occurring throughout the country have appeared in newspapers recently. Deforestation has also been a hot item on the agenda of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge - Land subsidence in the Mekong Delta is becoming increasingly serious, caused mainly by overexploitation of underground water.

Vietnam, the second largest rice exporter in the world, is facing big challenges. The income of farmers has dropped by seven times in the last 10 years, while exports face barriers set by import countries. 

 Vietnam is keen to develop education cooperation with the US and particularly the Harvard University.

Managers of nearly 1,000 plastics packaging companies are now faced with a new import tariff on PP beads, the major input material. It is priced three times higher than the previous rate.

 Viet Nam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company, or Vinamilk, will spend almost US$11 million to buy its Cambodian partner’s entire stake in Angkor Dairy Product Company Limited (Angkormilk) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 The southern Dong Nai Province’s transport department on Thursday ordered four sand mining and dredging projects in the region to suspend operations.

 The National Swimming Championships saw five Vietnamese individual records set in Thua Thien-Hue on Friday.

 Viet Nam’s top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam was defeated in the men’s singles semi-finals at the Japan F3 Men’s Futures tennis tournament in Kofu City on Friday.

 Viet Nam has officially halted meat imports from 21 Brazilian companies, which are being investigated for allegedly bribing state officials to facilitate the sale and export of sub-standard meat products.

 Rescue forces salvaged a truck from Nhat Canal in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap’s Thanh My Commune on Thursday afternoon.

 Forty-nine contracts were signed during the two-day regional conference on food security in Hanoi, which ended Thursday, the Netherlands’ deputy minister of agriculture Marjolijn Sonnema said.

 More flash floods and landslides are forecast to hit Vietnam in 2017 than last year, especially in mountainous areas in the northwest region, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Hanoi wishes to liaison with Singapore in urban planning and management, greening, smart-city construction and personnel training, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said.

Warning about the wave of millionaire emigration, economists say that millionaires are taking foreign currencies abroad, creating problems for Vietnam to control the foreign currency outflow.

 According to Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Association, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has filed geographical indication (GI) to Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand in 17 nations and territories worldwide and so far 12 have agreed to protect the brand name.

 The HCMC Department of Transport yesterday said that it had assigned the Urban Traffic Management Zone no.1 to be investor of a 22 hectare walking street zone in downtown HCMC.

 The National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Center yesterday announced that a cold air mass is forecast to hit the northern and central region of Vietnam in next couple of days.

 The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will require commercial banks support high-tech agriculture enterprises, under a direction from Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.