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The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has enhanced cooperation with Prey Veng province of Cambodia in health and education.

Real estate developer Novaland is working with the People’s Committee of Hong Ngu district in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap to build seven new bridges.

Ho Chi Minh City and the three provinces in the Dong Thap Muoi (Plain of Reeds) sub-region, namely Dong Thap, Tien Giang and Long An, discussed measures to boost their tourism cooperation at a meeting in Dong Thap’s Cao Lanh city.

Lang Son city in northern Lang Son province, and Sa Dec city in southern Dong Thap province have been recognised for completing their 2017 new-style rural area building tasks.

Some 2.4 million people visited the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap in the first nine months of the year, a year-on-year hike of 23 percent, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

The final segments of Vam Cong bridge in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap were connected on September 29.

Senior officials of Dong Thap and the Lao province of Champasak held talks in the Mekong Delta province on September 27.

A recent landslide along the Tien River in Dong Thap province’s Hong Ngu district caused a coffee shop and 2,400 square metres of land to sink into the river.

The People’s Committee of Dong Thap province has directed relevant agencies and district authorities to ensure farming of white-leg shrimps in freshwater areas is not expanded since the saltwater discharged by these farms affect water bodies and crops.

The Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is running 19 foreign direct investment projects worth nearly 4.74 trillion VND (208.56 million USD), mainly in cattle feed, acquaculture, garment-textile and rice exports.

Mekong Delta provinces are on the right track to lure more holidaymakers and turn tourism into a spearhead industry after PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc approved a master plan to develop tourism in the region.

Located in the wetlands of the Plain of Reeds in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, Tram Chim National Park is known for its spectacular diversity of bird species, attracting bird-watchers year-round.

A memorial and reburial service for 106 volunteer soldiers, who fell down in Cambodia during wartime, took place at the martyrs’ cemetery in Tam Nong district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, on July 27.

A waste treatment and recycling plant was inaugurated in Cao Lanh district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on July 26.