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The National Committee for Climate Change needs to enhance its international co-operation and learn from other countries’ experience to promote climate change response in Việt Nam, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on May 18. At the committee’s eighth meeting in Hà Nội, the Ministry ...

Every year, 55 million tons of sediment is lost from the rivers in Mekong Delta, 90 percent of which is sand. Nguyen Huu Thien, an independent expert, said the Mekong Delta has been taking shape for the last 6,000 years thanks to alluvial accretion. But the ...

Several colleges of teacher training in the Mekong Delta provinces have closed in the last several years because of a shortage of students. The Cà Mau Province’s College of Teachers Training, for example, was dissolved by the provincial People’s Committee late last year. Trần Hồng ...

Resources have been applied to prevent landslides in the Mekong Delta, but the problem has proven to be difficult to solve. In recent years, the riverbank erosion and coastal landslides have been taking away 500 hectares of land in the Mekong Delta every year, according to ...

Fourteen houses and two house floors in My Hoi Dong Commune, Cho Moi District of Mekong Delta Province of An Giang fell into the Hau River on Saturday morning due to a landslide, panicking local residents. A road connecting My Hoi Dong Commune and Nhơn Mỹ ...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has predicted that the unseasonable storms will continue until this Sunday. Ministry spokesman Chan Yutha said the rainy season might arrive on the first week of May this year, a week earlier than in previous years. Nop Polin, ...

For years, Tran Thi Nga was subjected to harassment and brutalization by the Vietnamese authorities, the details of which emerged in a fresh Human Rights Watch report published earlier this year. She was finally arrested in January for using the using “the Internet to post ...

Amid mighty rivers and dense mangroves, the busy floating markets in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have long shaped the delta’s well-known “water civilization.” As many as a dozen floating markets still remain along major waterways around the delta, where boats, houses, and markets float upon the ...

It’s time to overhaul Việt Nam’s rice production given that the staple plays an irreplaceable role in the country’s agriculture, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on March 15, adding that the rice sector needs to pay more attention to the domestic market of nearly ...

Home-stay services are becoming popular across Vietnam, with many people turning their houses into tourist dwellings to welcome foreign visitors. Tran Thanh Hung, 45, of the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, has spent 800 million dong (Bt1.24 million) to upgrade and expand his house. Located ...