Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong asked the southern province of Ben Tre to adopt short and long term plans to tackle saltwater intrusion when inspecting works against the ongoing disaster.
Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre are mobilising resources to address drought and saline intrusion, which have severely affected the local economy and living standards.
Poor people and social policy beneficiaries in the southern province of Ben Tre will get financial support to build houses as gifts from the Da Nang-based Bac Nam 79 Construction Join Stock Company.
As many as 32 fishing boats with a capacity under 90CV in Ben Tre province were fitted with ICOM radio devices, which help fishermen get in touch with the mainland in case any contingency occurs.
National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attended a ceremony on Jan. 4 to hand over 350 houses, built with funding from VietinBank in 2015, to poor families in the Mekong Delta province.
Southern Ben Tre province earned 737 million USD from shipping aboard coconut products over the past five year, accounting for 30 percent of its total export revenue.
Thousands of households in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre are in urgent need for resettlement, as they face a high risk of falling victim to riverside landslides.
The Ben Tre provincial People's Committee has approved a project to prevent erosion, planting 50ha of submerged forests to protect the Thua Duc sea dyke in Binh Dai district.
A number of measures to cope with salinity intrusions in the 2015-2016 dry season in the southern region were presented at a conference recently held in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.
Nguyen Thi Dinh scholarships have encouraged 200 girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre to pursue their education.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre is working hard to improve the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) administered to drug users and expand the therapy’s coverage.
Cho Lach district, the largest fruit cultivation area in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, has created several tourism products after three years of implementing its tourism development plan.
As many as 86.5 percent of local households in rural areas in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre had access to clean water as of the end of June this year , heard a conference held on August 20.
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