In the past 3 years, kitchenware or handicrafts is still the Vietnamese industry with the largest share in the international e-commerce platform. Chicnchilla crafts are made in Vietnam and sold abroad. Photo: Etsy. For many years, Vietnamese kitchenware, household appliances or handicrafts have been more popular and exported. According to data from Amazon Global Selling, the total number of products sold by Vietnamese companies on Amazon has reached 10 million in the past year (end of August 2022). About 80% of these goods are concentrated in the kitchen appliances, household appliances and textile industries. With the kitchenware industry accounting for…
Author: Kevin Le
Electric cars and concept cars are notable trends at the Vietnam Motor Show 2022, showing that Vietnam is increasingly catching up with new world trends. Vietnam Motor Show 2022 (VMS 2022) officially opened on the morning of October 26 after 2 years of absence. 14 car manufacturers participating in VMS 2022 including Audi, Brabus, Honda, Jeep, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi Motors, Morgan, MG, RAM, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo bring 120 new models with many electric models and concept cars. Audi brings the all-electric e-tron 50 SUV quattro after introducing the concept version at the 2019 exhibition, Mercedes-Benz Vietnam first launched the…
In the first 9 months of this year, while many traditional markets declined, the Southeast Asian market rose nearly 31% to around USD 220 million. Vietnamese companies take advantage of existing trade agreements to boost exports. Especially with the benefit of new generation agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the ASEAN region has also become the choice of many companies. Dragon fruit is the most affected export item when the export market is limited. Kim Hai Food Technology Company also specializes in products made from dragon fruit and recently had to quickly turn the market when exports…
Jack Sweeney is the 19-year-old student behind the popular Twitter account @CelebJets, which posts celebrity private jet travel. This account has become famous for revealing the carbon emissions these “ultrashort” trips can produce. This man has 30 Twitter accounts, including @CelebJets and @ElonJet, to track private jets owned by billionaires, celebrities and financiers. These use data from sites like ADS-B Exchange. Mark Zuckerberg travels by private plane… 30 km The 19-year-old hacker, now a student at the University of Central Florida, told Bloomberg, “Companies that track flights can make millions of dollars a year. Just equaling a small corner of…
According to Decree 45 on the Penalty of Environmental Administrative Violations, from August 25, 2022, individuals and households who fail to sort household waste from sources will be fined VND 500,000 to VND 1 million ($20-$40). This is one of the most recent regulations promoting the process of sorting waste at source under the Environmental Protection Act 2020, with provisions related to the collection and treatment of household waste and the environment, making full use of of recyclable resources. This is another great effort by the government to tackle Vietnam’s growing waste problem, as in 2006 Hanoi conducted a pilot…
For months, officials have been warning of an energy crisis that will strike this winter. These warnings come as Russia, the region’s largest natural gas supplier, has halted supplies in response to sanctions imposed by Europe. Now Europe’s gas reserves are almost full. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships line up in ports, cargo is not unloaded and prices are falling. European natural gas futures prices are down 20% since the middle of last week and more than 70% since reaching a record high in late August. On the first day of the week, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange,…
Last July, Europe’s only albatross returned to Yorkshire, England. Nicknamed Albie, this unusual albatross bird is said to have lived in the Northern Hemisphere since 2014. It is so famous that Albie’s annual flight is known to scientists, zoologists and legends who follow information. However, the reason Albie is famous is not happy at all: this is the “loneliest” albatross in the world. lonely seagull Albert, also known as Albie, belongs to the genus of albatrosses (Albatross), the largest and most common bird in the Seagull family. Albie also has no physical characteristics unlike millions of her own kind. Yet…
Recently, Mel Spigelman, President of the Tuberculosis Alliance, spoke on AFP and praised the rapid and impressive progress in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. In record time, just two years, a range of safe and effective vaccines, tests and treatments have been developed. But it was also when the world saw the return of tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The world cares about Covid-19, but forgets the potential danger According to the annual death rate reported by the Tuberculosis Alliance, TB can kill more than 4,100 people a day, four times more than the current 1,400 deaths from Covid-19…
Director-General Dinh Viet Thang said that in the first 10 months of this year, the passenger volume through Vietnamese airports reached more than 81 million, of which Vietnamese airlines carried more than 40 million passengers. The airline is expected to serve about 100 million passengers this year, 20 million fewer than before the COVID-19 epidemic. For the international tourist market, it has only recovered about 50% so far compared to before the COVID-19 epidemic. According to Mr. Thang, restoring flight paths in some key markets, especially China, is still difficult due to COVID-19 epidemic prevention policies. “Negotiations to reconnect flight…
It’s not clear when the speakers will be turned on, and officials haven’t given many reasons for the plan, so it’ll be interesting to see how this old-fashioned revival comes to life. The government in Hanoi has unveiled plans to roll out loudspeakers for daily announcements starting this year. Described as archaic and redundant by the city’s residents, this old-fashioned method of propaganda harks back to the Cold War era. The use of loudspeakers was discontinued by the city’s mayor in 2017, but began to make a comeback in limited capacity during Covid-19. Hanoi is known for its noise pollution,…