The National Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control held a meeting on November 15 in Chau Doc city of An Giang province to evaluate its performance in response to floods in the Mekong Delta region.
Representatives of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho and the Netherlands’ Vitens Evides International (VEI) company held a discussion on the WaterWorX project, which aims to orient the water supply to be adaptable to the effects of climate change in the southwest of Mekong River Delta, funded by the company and the Dutch Government.
Korean President Moon Jae-in was to leave for Singapore on November 13 for annual summits with ASEAN nations and their dialogue partners as he strives to bolster relations with the region and drum up international support for his initiative for peace with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
An 87.3-metre-long boat of Khmer people in Cambodia has become the world’s longest dragon boat, breaking the previous record held by China.
The Hanoi Forum 2018 opened on November 9, drawing nearly 500 delegates, made up of former and incumbent state leaders, heads of business groups and international organisations, as well as domestic and foreign scholars and scientists.
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh will build embankments to protect an important coastal section in Hiep Thanh commune, of Duyen Hai town, as it is facing increasingly serious erosion along its coastline.
The third Vietnam Rice Festival will be held in Tan An city, in the Mekong River Delta province of Long An, from December 18-24.
A new TV show about Vietnamese fairytales is being aired on Ho Chi Minh Television’s HTV3 channel.
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Cong Thanh has underlined the need to focus on the planning and investigation of water resources across the country, especially in the Mekong Delta region.
The annual flooding in the Mekong Delta has damaged more than 2,000ha of rice this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Directorate of Water Resources.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a meeting with chief representatives of United Nations agencies in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 24, on the United Nations Day.
Local authorities in the Mekong Delta are taking serious measures to prevent flooding caused by high tides during the annual flood season in the area.
Positive signals in key Vietnamese markets for tra fish exports like China, the EU and the US, have pushed material and fillet prices to the highest level to date.
Vietnam will undertake the Chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) in 2019, according to the Vietnam National Space Centre.
Two small islands in Vietnam have been named among a list of 10 beaches in Southeast Asia unspoilt by tourism suggested by a travel piece in the UK newspaper The Telegraph.
Green transformation for energy and water resource security in the Mekong Sub-region is crucial for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to respond to climate change, experts said at a seminar held in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on October 16.
Tra fish export value is expected to exceed 2 billion USD this year, higher than the industry’s target, according to experts.
Local authorities in the Mekong Delta are taking measures to mitigate the impact of flooding caused by high tides during the annual flood season in the delta.
