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HÀ NỘI  Cooperation on investment, trade and tourism between Hà Nội and other provinces in the Northern Key Economic Region will be enhanced thanks to a series of promotion programmes taking place this week. Themed “Link to Grow”, the events are part of a programme co-organised by the authorities and relevant …

Low spending, combined with massive harvests and foreign competition, have slashed Vietnam’s giant freshwater prawn prices 25-50% on some markets. Southern farmers in the Mekong Delta are direct-selling the prawns for VND90,000-100,000 (US$3.59-3.99) per kilogram, 25% cheaper than the same period last year. Hung, who owns a 1-hectare giant freshwater …

A medical worker instructs a tuberculosis patient to have a lung X-ray. — VNA/VNS Photo Nguyễn Lành HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has a high number of tuberculosis (TB) patients, and a large number of cases with high risk of infection in the community, so proactively detecting the disease at …