December 30, 2011
 Bún nÆ°á»c kèn (rice vermicelli and curried fish soup) is one of the most popular dishes in the Mekong Delta Coming to Mekong Delta in the south in Vietnam, visitors will recognize the river region’s culture deepened into every breath of locals, who are humble and honest. The cuisine is also as humble as [...]
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December 10, 2011
A file photo taken last July shows trucks and heavy machinery taking part in road work at the Xayaburi dam construction site in Xayaburi Province, Laos. Construction of the US$3.8-billion Xayaburi dam will be suspended pending further impact studies to be done by Japan, the four countries that share the lower reaches of the [...]
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November 26, 2011
Vietnam will be the first of four member nations to take over gauging stations on the Mekong River from the Mekong River Commission (MRC)’s Secretariat next January, the government’s website reported Wednesday. According to the website, the stations belong to the project of Hydrological Cycle Observing System that the Secretariat introduced at a national [...]
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November 7, 2011
Almost all the victims of severe flooding in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta were children, the United Nations said on Monday, as the official death toll climbed to 78. The UN said 65 children under the age of 16 were among those killed by widespread flooding that has inundated much of south and central Vietnam. "The [...]
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October 30, 2011
Conjoined twins die from the Mekong Delta died of respiratory failure at Ho Chi Minh City's Children Hospital 1 on Oct 23. The conjoined twins, erroneously and disrespectfully referred to by the media as a "two-headed baby girl", died Sunday from respiratory failure at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital. Dr Dao Trung Hieu, deputy [...]
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October 29, 2011
The famous brand of Phu Quoc fish sauce, which is owned by the Phu Quoc Fish Sauce Association in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, was recently registered by a Hong Kong-based company in China. Vietnamese producers’ associations should register their members’ collective brands overseas as soon as possible to avoid foreign legal battles [...]
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October 22, 2011
A photo taken on October 18 shows houses submerged by flood waters in Tan Hoa District, Quang Binh Province Devastating floods in Vietnam’s central and southern regions have killed at least 59 people and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control reported Wednesday. Seasonal flooding [...]
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October 7, 2011
The rainy season fills the Mekong Delta with one of the world’s tastiest, and smallest fish When cá linh comes to Saigon, cooks often combine the fish with coconut milk for stewing Every autumn, the Mekong Delta flood season inundates lower-delta farmers with cá linh, or mud carp fish, tasty little freshwater treats that [...]
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October 7, 2011
Doctors have yet to identify what prompted a rapid-aging process in 23-year-old woman who now looks 70 Nguyen Thi Phuong (L), 26, looks about 50 years her senior due to a strange rapid-aging affliction that began in 2008 Nguyen Thanh Tuyen’s love for his wife never faded as he watched her youthful beauty crumble [...]
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October 7, 2011
Vo Van Ut Deo (R), a former senior police official in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, was sentenced to two years in jail after his subordinates had beat up a detainee to death. The Ministry of Public Security has called for surveillance, preventive measures and strict measures against wrongdoings by police officials in [...]
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