The largest-ever social housing project in the Mekong Delta, which had its official groundbreaking ceremony in Vinh Long province on August 1, is scheduled to be available in June 2016.
Government agencies have been asked to help farmers identify the most desirable tra fish products in local and overseas markets, in an aim to increase production and consumption.
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.
The Mekong Delta is harvesting a bumper summer-autumn rice crop though
the weather has been unfavourable, according to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development.
More than 250 professional and amateur artists from 24 clubs in HCM City
participated last weekend in the tai tu (amateur music) festival Hoa
Sen Vang (Golden Lotus).
The Ministry of Transport has estimated the Mekong Delta region would
need around 87 trillion VND (nearly 4 billion USD) in 2016-2020 to
invest in important infrastructure projects to fuel economic growth, the
Saigon Times Daily reported.
The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Communist Youth Union teamed up with the
city’s Student Association to hold a meeting between local students and a
youth delegation of the Mekong Friendship Project on July 7 to foster
people-to-people connectivity.
Provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta region are mulling over
resources and cooperation mechanisms to make the most of natural
conditions for green tourism development.
Attendees to a seminar in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July
6 gave their feedback on pilot regulations for coordinating regional
socio-economic development for 2016-2010, which stay on pillars of
sustainable farming development and improved farmer resilience against
climate change.
Vietnam won third place after defeating Laos one-nil at the Japan-Mekong
U15 Football Exchange 2015 in Japan, said the Vietnam Football
Federation (VFF) on July 4.
The Japan-Mekong cooperation is necessary to the Mekong sub-region’s
socio-economic development and the ASEAN integration process, Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at the 7th Mekong-Japan Summit held in
Tokyo, on July 4.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told a
business forum of the five countries in the Mekong region in Tokyo on
July 3 that Vietnam has room for growth and undoubtedly brings new
opportunities to Japanese firms.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Cambodian counterpart
Hor Namhong agreed to keep working together over infrastructure
development in Cambodia and four other countries along the Mekong
River during their meeting in Tokyo on June 2.
Provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta were asked to take advantage
of their favourable natural conditions to develop green and ecological
tourism, a great and untapped potential.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek support from leaders of
five Southeast Asian nations for promoting high-quality growth during
the upcoming Mekong-Japan Summit in Tokyo, sources from the Japanese
government said on June 28.
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