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The damage caused by landslides in the Mekong Delta provinces has been increasing yearly.

The beginning of the rainy season has worsened land erosion along rivers and canals in the Mekong Delta.

The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has declared a state of emergency due to land erosion along the Ong Chuong River in Cho Moi district.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has just signed a decision on the establishment of Phia Oac-Phia Den National Park in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang to preserve typical ecosystem and biodiversity.

HCM City faces high risks of land erosion in the rainy season due to invasion of river banks, canals, illegal sand mining, together with climate change causing rains, storms and rising sea levels.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked for political determination and feasible measures to achieve growth target in each sector during the Government’s May meeting in Hanoi on June 3.

Many scientists have asked the Vietnamese Government to propose Laos to suspend its Pak Beng hydropower project to wait for thorough assessment of the project’s possible impacts on areas in the lower Mekong River.

Leaders of parliaments in the Asia-Pacific region and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) made fact-finding trips to some areas in Ho Chi Minh City on May 12 to learn about climate change impacts.

Hundred metres of land along rivers and coastlines have been destroyed by unusually strong winds and waves, combined with rising tides in the southernmost province of Ca Mau.

The growing of mangrove forests in the central province of Quang Tri has proved effective in protecting the local sea dykes.

HCM City will relocate 1,210 households in areas prone to land erosion by rivers and canals under a larger resettlement plan that will be carried out until 2020.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak needs a proper land use strategy to mitigate soil erosion and develop existing land resources, scientists have recommended.

The causes of worsening land erosion along rivers and the coast in the Mekong Delta were analysed at a seminar held in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on June 6.