More than 5,660 households in An Bien district in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang lack access to clean water and have to harvest rainwater or buy clean water from other areas, according to the district’s People’s Committee.
The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, which is one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in the region, should map out a plan for building an irrigation network and enacting measures against saltwater intrusion with a vision for the next 50 years, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Phung Quoc Hien said at a working session with local authorities on July 8.
The coastal area of central Quang Tri province has served as an engine for local socio-economic development by luring many investors in leisure tourism, seaports and energy.
Fishermen in coastal communes of Duy Hai and Duy Nghia in the central province of Quang Nam are happy with the ongoing bumper ruoc bien (sea shrimp)-season, as a fishing boat can earn a few million of dong per trip.
Officials from the Party, State, Government, and National Assembly visited poor people ahead the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the biggest holiday in Vietnam.
About 10,000 families in the central province of Quang Tri are in a shortage of water for daily use due to a prolonged drought, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The south-east economic zone in the central province of Quang Tri has been drawing a large number of domestic and foreign investors, with capital amounting to tens of trillions of dong.
More than 24,000 people in Ca Mau province are expected to benefit from a community-based disaster risk reduction project in vulnerable areas in the Mekong Delta, heard a workshop on January 29.
Economic and industrial zones in the central province of Quang Tri boast huge potential for attracting domestic and foreign investors. The attraction of investment in these fields is one of the locality’s top priorities.
The central coastal province of Thua Thien Hue will spend more than 300 billion VND (million USD) to build a sea dyke along the coast from Thuan An to Tu Hien which is threatened by serious erosion.
It has been 2 years since the striking marine environmental incident in central provinces, including Quang Tri, late April 2016. Thanks to timely policies and measures from local authorities, fishing
Nearly two years after the 2016 Formosa toxic spill, fishermen in the coastal province of Quang Tri are slowly returning to the sea or finding alternative livelihoods.
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is making a beeline for sustainable poverty reduction, aiming to cut the rate of impoverished households in the locality by 2.5 percent by the end of this year.
The total output of farmed and off-shore caught fish of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue reached 30,388 tonnes in the last seven months, showing a year-on-year increase of 18.72 percent.
Compensation for residents affected by last year’s marine environmental incident in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue has been mostly completed.
The central province of Quang Tri is working to complete the distribution of a compensation batch for local victims of last year’s marine environment incident within June.
Coastal communes in the south central province of Quang Ngai are facing alarming environmental pollution as a result of the waste discharged from residential areas, industrial production and tourism activities.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) announced on April 24 that it had sent a document guiding the provision of financial aid for those who supplied tourism services and were affected by the marine environment incident in the central province of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
