December 2, 2009
A high dropout rate continues to trouble Mekong Delta educators with each province suffering several thousands of young people giving up their education. VietNamNet Bridge – A high dropout rate continues to trouble Mekong Delta educators with each province suffering several thousands of young people simply giving up their education. In early 2009-2010 school year, Tien [...]
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November 28, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – A 90-year-old folk song is embedded in the heart and mind of every southerner. World War I not only gave birth to modernism, which subsequently enraptured the arts and literature of the west for decades to come, it also marked a new musical dawn in Vietnam. As the French colonial army plucked conscripts from [...]
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November 27, 2009
A performance of don ca tai tu at the Da co hoai lang Festival in September A 90-year-old folk song is embedded in the heart and mind of every southerner. World War I not only gave birth to modernism, which subsequently enraptured the arts and literature of the west for decades to come, it also [...]
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August 23, 2009
Unreliable cages mean that crocodile escape to the rivers and canals during transportation and attack people. More and more such reports from Mekong Delta provinces frighten local residents. A crocodile farm in Can Tho City. A Kien Giang Provincial Forest Protection Bureau official says that local rangers have killed a crocodile 1.6m long, weighing 20kg, after it [...]
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July 27, 2009
Farmers harvest salt fields in Bac Lieu Province. Farmers in the countryâs major salt-producing province are struggling in the face of a cheap imports surge that local agencies have yet to explain. Bac Lieu Province farmers have stockpiled around 25,000 tons of salt but Bac Lieu Salt Company still imports large shipments of salt from [...]
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July 24, 2009
Continuous rains have brought heavy losses to the Mekong Delta, which is now harvesting the summer-autumn crop. According to Dr Pham Van Du, senior official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Mekong Delta plans to harvest 800,000 tonnes of summer-autumn crop rice in July, but only 350,000 tonnes have been harvested so [...]
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July 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Global shrimp consumption is expected to decline further in the remaining months of the year due to the economic downturn, predicts the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). In Bac Lieu province, the country’s biggest “shrimp basket”, total earnings from seafood export in the first half of the year was [...]
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June 29, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – From Ca Mau in the far south to the Red River Delta in the north, Vietnam’s aquifers are being exploited unmethodically and not controlled properly. As the water table falls, salt water and contaminants seep in. Underground water is becoming exhausted in the Central Highlands and southwestern region. Photo: drilling well in the [...]
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June 28, 2009
Underground water has been exploited unmethodically and not controlled properly. This resource is becoming exhausted. Underground water is becoming exhausted in the Central Highlands and southwestern region. Photo: drilling well in the southern province of Binh Phuoc.In the Mekong Delta, thousands of wells have been drilled to serve shrimp breeding lagoons and fields but the [...]
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June 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Rising feed prices have forced a significant number of catfish, shrimp and livestock breeders in the southern region to give up their occupations. The shrimp breeding area in Bac Lieu province had fallen from 10,000ha last year to 2,000ha this year.More than 30 per cent of catfish breeders in the Cuu Long (Mekong) [...]
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