October 7, 2011
This picture, taken on October 5, shows a Vietnamese farmer showing a damaged sheaf of rice at his flooded rice field in Vinh Dien Commune, Giang Thanh District, Kien Giang Province of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes of Asia’s rice bowl, threatening to further drive up food prices and adding to [...]
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July 4, 2011
Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]
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June 27, 2011
The education ministry Friday asked authorities in Mekong Delta provinces to punish those responsible for not following its marking instructions during the recently concluded high school graduation exams. Â The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) said it had allowed leaders of marking councils in 11 provinces to hold a meeting to discuss its [...]
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June 23, 2011
Students check the results of their high school graduation exams at the Marie Curie High School, Ho Chi Minh City, on Thursday. The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Saturday issued a statement expressly banning any instructions than the ones that it has issued for marking the recently held high school graduation exams. Â [...]
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January 23, 2011
Scientists urge for urgent action as more than one-fourth of water wells in the Red River Delta are contaminated with the carcinogenic chemicals A resident in Vietnam’s Red River Delta shows skin lesions caused by arsenic poisoning. Scientists have warned against an “alarming” contamination of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in the Delta’s groundwater. [...]
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January 15, 2011
A woman fishes in the Mekong River in Laos in September 2010. Though Zeus warned Pandora never to open the box given to her, the temptation proved too strong and Pandora forever unleashed into the world misery, suffering and sorrow. Today, much like this mythical Greek tragedy, the decision-makers of the Mekong sub-region face a [...]
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January 6, 2011
A view of Can Tho, which, according to a new study, will be heavily flooded from 2050 due to climate change Climate change will lead to the flooding of nine urban centers in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in mid-21st century, with Can Tho being the hardest hit. A new study by the Institute of Hydrometeorology and [...]
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November 14, 2010
A century-old governor’s palace in Long An Province, before being demolished (left) by the provincial government, who then constructed a new structure, roughly modeled on the same design (right). Vietnamese history only goes back about 300 years in the southern delta, the first hundred of which was spent clearing and settling much of the [...]
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January 31, 2010
Farmers pack dehusked rice before export at a mill in southern Tien Giang Province.LookAtVietnam – The Mekong Delta can supply an estimated 4 million tonnes of rice husk as fuel for thermoelectric plants with a potential capacity of 500MW, according to the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute.The institute’s recent survey at 108 rice mills in [...]
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January 17, 2010
Seafood processors in the Mekong Delta provinces have been facing a shortage of raw materials ever since shrimp and tra catfish farming areas shrank dramatically last year. LookAtVietnam – Seafood processors in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces have been facing a shortage of raw materials ever since shrimp and tra catfish farming areas shrank [...]
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