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Le Duc Trung, Chief of the Office of Vietnam National Mekong Committee, spoke to the newspaper Tin Tuc (News) about how to share the Mekong River to the benefit of all regional countries.

Mainstream hydropower projects on the Mekong River caused a loss of 5.2 trillion (231 million USD) in seafood and agriculture output to the Mekong Delta.

Thailand is researching the feasibility of the Mekong-Loei-Chi-Mun project, which aims to build a tunnel diverting water from the Loei River, a branch of the Mekong River, to the Northeast region.

Experienced Dutch specialists are joining their Vietnamese peers at a two-day conference in Can Tho city to outline solutions and build plans to adapt the Mekong Delta to climate change.

Construction progress of two key transport projects in Mekong River Delta region, the Cao Lanh and Vam Cong bridges, are underway and contractors expect they may finish ahead of schedule.

Two Vietnamese writers have received the Mekong River Literature Prize together with ten authors from Laos , Cambodia , Thailand , China and Myanmar .

Developing mainstream hydropower projects on the lower Mekong River could lead to long-term and unrecoverable losses to its deltas and the water environment, impacting millions of people.

Member countries in the Mekong River region should build up long-term strategies and action plans to boost cooperation in river-based tourism in the future.

The Mekong Delta plans to plant more than 1.5 million ha of rice for the 2015-16 winter-spring rice crop, but it faces saline intrusion and a water shortage because of the Mekong River's low water.

Cooperation among upper and lower Mekong countries in sustainable managing and using the Mekong River water resources should be the top priority of the Mekong-Lancang partnership, said Deputy PM Minh.

Joining the TPP presents opportunities for enterprises in the Mekong River Delta to expand their markets and enhance their competitiveness, but it also means they will face tougher competition.

A forum on ‘Mekong outlook: changes and expectations’ was organised in Hanoi on October 29 by the Centre for Humans and Nature.

The construction of hydropower dams on the mainstream Mekong River has had the largest impact on fishing and local livelihoods in the lower basin, as heard at a consultative seminar in Hanoi.

Six Mekong River-sharing countries will kick off a new cooperation mechanism at a ministerial meeting in November to cope with a wide range of issues for regional development.

Water levels on the upper section of the Mekong River are rising rapidly, said Luu Van Ninh, Director of the An Giang provincial Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Centre.