Farmers of the southern central province of Quảng Ngãi are now suffering a severe crisis due to the catastrophic drop in vegetable prices. Some 1,000 ha of vegetables in local farms could become raw material for fertilisers instead of making it to markets.  

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The supply, price and use of herbal medicines will be tightened by strengthening policies on quality assessment at medical facilities, the Minister of Health (MoH) Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has stressed. 

The Department of Animal Health (DAH) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned about the threat of bird flu outbreak following one A/H5N6 bird flu outbreak recorđe in the past 21 days in Đại Bản Commune, An Dương District, in the northern port city of Hải Phòng.

Authority in Hải Phòng City has explained on the import of more than 1,000 camphor trees (Cinnamomum camphora) from China to plant along Phạm Văn Đồng Road, saying that domestic gardens did not have enough of the trees and their prices were higher than those from China.

Trần Quang Huy, 36, wearing a protective clothing, loads activated charcoal to a truck for delivery.

Farmers in the south have begun harvesting their winter-spring rice crop, earning large profits because of high yields and prices.

This year, the Ministry of Education and Training will decide minimum entrance score for only teacher training institutions while minimum entrance scores for other universities, colleges and vocational schools will be scrapped.

 On a recent sunny day, Phan Thị Kim Ngân, 53, wore an old palm-leaf conical hat, as she removed the cover of a barrel containing traditional fish sauce in her garden in Cồn Sơn Commune in the Mekong Delta City of Cần Thơ.