Every weekend, hundreds of people flock to the U Minh Thuong National
Park in the southern province of Kien Giang to fish as a leisure
activity. Here there are different kinds of huge fish far beyond their
wildest dreams.
Three Vietnamese citizens who were on board the crippled Italian Costa
Concordia cruise ship are in good health and staying in a hotel near the
capital city of Rome.
The southern border province of Tay Ninh and the Military Zone 7
High Command jointly held a memorial ceremony and reburial of remains of
112 volunteer soldiers who died in Cambodia at the Tan Bien
district Martyrs’ Cemetery on July 27.
PM Nguyen Tan Dung on May 14 issued an order to kick off
construction of the Minh Luong-Thu Bay section and the Rach Gia
bypass in Kien Giang province.
A new dragon-fly species, the Aethriamanta aethra, has been found in
Vietnam, the HCM City-based non-profit organisation Wildlife At Risk
(WAR) announced on April 19.
Vietnamese photographers from the southern province of Kien Giang
have won nine gold and two bronze medals at the 2010 International Art
Photo Contest in the United States.
The Southern Airports Corporation (SAC) and Civil Aviation
Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) on July 27 held a workshop in Ho Chi
Minh City to seek international flights to three new airports in the
southern regions.
An additional 13 projects have been licensed in Phu Quoc island in the
southern province of Kien Giang since the beginning of the year
with a combined registered investment capital of about 3 trillion VND.
A seminar was held in Phu Quoc island
district in the southern province of Kien Giang on May 28 to
discuss how to develop tourism in the Mekong Delta region.
The government has agreed to a thermo-electricity plant with an annual
capacity
200 MW in the island district of Phu Quoc, according to the People’s
Committee
of the southern province of Kien Giang.
Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang will be turned into a
tourism and commercial hub for the country and the region, according to a
decision recently signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
National power utility Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has said it would generate
an additional 2,000 MW from new hydro-power and thermal projects this year.
Phu Quoc fish sauce trademark, famous
in Vietnam and many countries in the world, is being undercut by
imitators, despite being a protected geographic indication and
appellation of origin since 2001.
A training programme on planting trees
in alkaline soil under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model was
held in the southern province of Kien Giang on November 13.
