Viet Nam News
Mekong Delta erosion incidents increase
Landslides along riverbanks and the coast in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have been increasing as local authorities continue to struggle to find solutions amid a budget shortage. Last month, more than 10 erosion incidents occurred in the Delta, including in Cà Mau, Hậu Giang and ...
Mekong sluice project is not necessary, experts say
Many experts and scientists on Monday continued to express concern about the Cái Lớn-Cái Bé dual sluice project in Kiên Giang Province and its possible impact on the region. The project is expected to control saline intrusion and adapt to climate change. []Đặng Kiều Nhân, representative of ...
Three waterway projects mooted in Mekong Delta
The Vietnam Inland Waterway Administration has called on the Ministry of Transport to assess and invest in three waterway transport projects in the Mekong Delta under public-private-partnership mode. The first is an upgrade of an 86km stretch of the Hàm Luông River to allow passage ...
Mekong Delta ready for fight against climate change
As hot weather peaks this month in southern Việt Nam, authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong Delta) region are stepping up efforts to cope with forest fires and salinisation as a response to climate change. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Mekong Delta students to get access to computer science
Microsoft Vietnam and the Dariu Foundation on Tuesday launched a project called “Enabling Boat” to help disadvantaged youth in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta access computer science and code literacy. According to the 2018 Digital Transformation Study in the Asia Pacific conducted by Microsoft and IDC, ...
VNS Reporter
VN aids sustainable growth on Mekong
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc will lead a Vietnamese delegation to attend the third Mekong River Commission (MRC) Summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from April 4-5 at the invitation of Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Sustainable agriculture project raises farmers’ profits by 14 per cent
The Việt Nam-Sustainable Agriculture Transformation Project (VnSAT) in the Mekong Delta has helped raise farm profits by 14 per cent after two years of implementation, according to Đặng Minh Cường, the project’s deputy head. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail
Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released on Monday. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
US$66 billlion to boost GMS economic co-operation
Sixty-six billlion US Dollars in 220 projects will be invested in the Greater Mekong Subregion to strengthen regional economic co-operation in the next five years. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Securing the Greater Mekong Sub-region’s future
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries have made stunning progress over the past quarter century. Once plagued by poverty, they are now economic success stories. Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
