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An 600-bed General Hospital officially began operation on April 29 in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has agreed in principle to allow the People’s Committee of An Giang province to make an overall planning for the Oc Eo-Ba TheSpecial National Relic Site.

A host of events have been arranged in the southern provinces of Soc Trang, Tra Vinh and An Giang to celebrate the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year festival of the Khmer people.

The Asia Foundation on April 6 granted scholarships to 134 female students in the 12th grade, who are living in difficult circumstances but have good school performances, in Can Tho city and An Giang.

The remains of 29 Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives during the US war were reburied in Khanh Binh commune, An Phu district, in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, between March 22-30.

The Ministry of Finance and the Kuwait Fund signed on March 11 in Ho Chi Minh City a loan agreement for a project to supply medical equipment to the Chau Doc General Hospital in An Giang.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang is striving for over 50 percent of its communes to meet all 19 criteria required for being recognised as new-style rural areas by 2020.

A meeting was held on February 24 to step up the implementation of a project on building infrastructure serving agricultural restructuring in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle.

The Mekong Delta province of An Giang should accelerate its economic growth and climb to a high position in the region by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on January 4.

Authorities of the southern province of An Giang and over 25,000 followers of Hoa Hao Buddhism celebrated the 96th birth anniversary of the sect’s founder, Prophet Huynh Phu So on January 4.

Authorities of the southern province of An Giang have visited and congratulated the Central Executive Committee of Hoa Hao Buddhism on the occasion of the 96th birth anniversary of the sect’s founder.

The management of the Oc Eo Cultural Relic site in the southern province of An Giang has just launched an antique donation programme which calls on residents to donate Oc Eo objects for preservation.

Thirty seven pairs of oxen from 14 communes in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang competed at this year's Bay Nui Ox Race.

Delegations of local leaders in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang recently visited and congratulated Khmer Bhuddhists and people on the occasion of the Sene Dolta Festival.