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On March 31, the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu declared a level 2 emergency situation for drought and saline intrusion, which has plagued the province for months.

Army engineers in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on March 30 successfully detonated a 340-kilogramme bomb discovered in An Phuc commune, Dong Hai district.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu affected by severe drought and saline intrusion have received support from the Government, local authority and banks to restart their crop production.

The Mekong Delta provinces of Ca Mau and Bac Lieu have lost dozens thousands hectares of crops to severe saltwater intrusion and drought that have hit the whole region since early February.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu have constructed 460 dams at a cost of over 3 billion VND (130,000 USD) to prevent seawater intrusion for about 46,000 hectares of rice.

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa is facing serious water shortages because of low levels in reservoirs.

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu in 2016 will focus on calling for investment into projects involving hi-technology aquaculture breeding and high value export products.

The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) is carrying out a US-funded project on building disaster risk management capacity, as announced in Hanoi on November 23.

Xiem Can Temple in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu is listed among the most magnificent large-scale Khmer temples in southern Vietnam.

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu earned nearly 351 million USD from seafood exports in the first 10 months of this year, 100 million USD higher than that of the whole 2014.

The national cai luong (reformed opera) competition opens in Bac Lieu city on November 6.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved the expansion of several sections of National Highway 1A in the southern provinces of Bac Lieu and Soc Trang.

Bac Lieu province, which boasts over 53 kilometres of coastline, earmarked substantial funding for tapping and turning its maritime potential into an advantage for the locality's economic development.

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu began construction of the most modern concrete pile factory in the delta on September 24.