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Giant barbs or Siamese giant carps, a freshwater fish in the Mekong River, are found in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. In Vietnam, they live mostly in Vam Nao, an area linking the Tien and Hau rivers in An Giang Province. The fish are expensive because of their delicious meat and rarity. Now, An Giang [...]
The Southern Cuisine Festival kicked off in Can Tho city on April 29 within the framework of activities to mark the progress of ten years of construction and development in the Mekong Delta region. During the festival, visitors will have the chance to enjoy the specialities and traditional dishes of 13 Mekong Delta provinces and [...]
Dang Thi Thu Thao, from the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu was crowned Miss Mekong Delta 2012 on Sunday night, April 29. Thao (born 1991) is 172cm tall and weighs 49 kg. On Sunday night she received the crown and VND200 million as prize money. First runner-up Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy from Vinh Long [...]
After 10 years of implementing the Resolution 21-NQ/TW of the Politburo on developing the Mekong Delta in the 2001-2010 period, the region has reaped many achievements in socioeconomic development and defense-security. In the reviewed period, economy of Mekong cities and provinces developed rapidly with right economic structure changes, improved production effectiveness, good mobilization of investment [...]
Leaders of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have visited Khmer people and presented gifts to policy beneficiary and outstanding families, soldiers and students on their New Year festival, the Chol Chnam Thmay. They also visited the police and people in Cambodia’s Takeo and Kandal border provinces. The authorities spoke highly of the [...]
An exhibition, called “ Riverscapes In Flux”, opened in the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi on Apr. 12. Organised by the Goethe Institute in Hanoi , the exhibition showcases the works of 17 young artists from Vietnam , Thailand , Myanmar , Cambodia , Indonesia and the Philippines . The institute’s Director, Meyer Zollitsch, [...]
The third Coconut Festival came to an end in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on April 10, with hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign visitors and local people taking part. This year’s festival included an art installation of a coconut road, a coconut foods festival, a tour of a coconut plantation and [...]
Natives around Tram Chim National Park in the Mekong Delta’s Dong Thap Province are found repeatedly poaching fish on this natural reserve despite regular attempts from local security forces to push them away. Nguyen Tan Mam, a veteran security guard at the park, said poaching occurs nearly every day even though preventive measures have been [...]
A 100kg boa-constrictor (python reticulates) python kept in Bac Lieu Sanctuary in the Mekong delta province of Bac Lieu for more than a year has died. According to Nguyen Trung Chanh, the sanctuary’s director, the rare snake, which was 5.2m long and 50 cm in diameter, apparently died from lung cancer. It had refused to [...]
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Dong Thap has a myriad attractions, ranging from its luxuriant landscape and rare and exotic animals and plants to its myriad temples and bustling markets. Ha Nguyen reports Visiting the provinces of Viet Nam’s Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta is the dream of many, and the region welcomes millions of visitors [...]