The An Giang Police’s Investigation Security Agency has arrested two suspects to investigate the act of "organising illegal exits" in a case of 40 Vietnamese nationals swimming across a river to Vietnam to escape from a casino in Cambodia.

The Department of Public Security of An Giang province said on August 21 that the case in which 40 Vietnamese had illegally entered the country after an escape from a Cambodian casino shows signs of human trafficking and organisation of illegal migration for others.

A body suspected of a missing person in a case of 40 Vietnamese fleeing a casino in Cambodia to return home was found in Binh Ghi river on August 20, said an official of An Phu district, the southern province of An Giang, the same day.

Forty Vietnamese nationals were arrested by An Giang Border Guards on August 18 morning after illegally entering Vietnam from Cambodia.

The Mekong Delta provinces of An Giang and Kien Giang on July 25 held memorial and reburial services for remains of Vietnamese soldiers, including 58 sets of volunteer soldiers who fell in Cambodia during wartime.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is hoping for annual GRDP growth of 6.5 - 7 percent during 2021 - 2025 as targeted in its recently released plan on socio-economic recovery and development.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is aiming to attract more than 20 trillion VND (862.73 million USD) for at least 15 local projects in 2022 following a freshly signed investment promotion programme.

Director of An Giang province's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Nguyen Sy Lam has suggested the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) collaborate with relevant agencies to accelerate the building of a trademark for tra fish (catfish) in the Mekong Delta.

Businesses from the Republic of Korea (RoK) visited the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on February 21 to seek partnership opportunities with local firms.

A new 188-kilometre highway in the Mekong Delta between Chau Doc city in An Giang province and Soc Trang province is planned to be built, and the feasibility study for it has been handed to the Ministry of Transport by the My Thuan Project Management Board.

An Giang should bring into full play its advantages in high-tech agriculture and tourism to move ahead, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc told incumbent and former leaders of the Mekong Delta province on January 18 as part of his working trip to the locality on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited and presented Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to representatives of disadvantaged households and victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Long Xuyen city, the southern province of An Giang, on January 18.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Plant Protection Department and the An Giang provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on January 11 piloted an app that helps identify rice pests and diseases on smart phones.

The Nui Sam national tourism site in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang’s Chau Doc city, considered the biggest cultural spiritual tourism hub in the region, will reopen to visitors on January 1, 2022.