VietNamNet Bridge – American Dave Singleton has seen the world coaching a game he loves. And now he’s bringing that drive to help grow the game of basketball in the Mekong Delta.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta has vast tourism potential but it has not been exploited well, partly due to poor communications among relevant players, a seminar on tourism development in the delta heard.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The impact of climate change and a rise in sea levels has accelerated the erosion of sea dykes in the Mekong Delta, with the southernmost province of Ca Mau being the most vulnerable. 

Livestock husbandry and forestry plantation have maintained good growth, but agricultural production slowed over the last six months, a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta is in danger of disintegrating as the volume of sediment is declining.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has called for provinces in the Mekong Delta to expand paddy farming in areas with favorable weather conditions given positive projections for outbound sales of the staple food later this year.

In early December 2010, Vietnamese tra fish (basa fish) made headlines when the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) placed it on its red list, which names produce that is farmed under unhygienic conditions or traded illegally. 

Director of the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s branch in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho Vo Hung Dung spoke to Tuoi Tre newspaper about measures to prevent mass migration from the Mekong Delta region

Farmers in the Mekong Delta can only stand by and watch their fields wither and die from salt water intrusion and drought.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Due to prolonged drought, sea water has intruded the world Ramsar sites in the Mekong Delta, damaging their inundated ecosystem and the rare flora and fauna.

 China will continue discharging water from a hydropower station into the downstream Mekong River for drought relief, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said on April 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Cultivation’s plan to expand the acreage of the 2016 autumn-winter rice crop, or the third rice crop, in the Mekong Delta to offset the losses in the winter-spring crop could lead drought and salinity

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta is facing severe drought and critical inland salination at the same time. El Nino and the shortage of water to the delta due to dams built by countries in the upper Mekong mainstream are the main causes

VietNamNet Bridge - Just within five days, the rice price in Mekong River Delta increased by VND300-350 per kilo after the forecast about poor crop.

 The first rainfall began spreading over the Mekong Delta last night, refreshing agricultural crops as well as lower temperatures after the long- lasting dry season in the region.

VietNamNet Bridge - Crippling drought and saline intrusion are forecasted to continue damaging the south-central, Central Highlands and southern regions in April due to the devastating El Nino phenomenon.

 The water discharged from China’s Jinghong Hydropower Station is expected to reach the Mekong Delta region in 19 days, according to Dong Van Tu, head of the Water Resource Directorate’s department of irrigation and dam safety.

While the people and leaders of the Mekong Delta provinces are pleased that China decided to release from hydropower dams, irrigation experts said that most of the flow will be blocked before it runs to Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Aside from natural forces like climate change, countries’ actions have worsened the drought and salinity in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said nearly 300,000 households lost their income in recent months or were affected by drought and saltwater intrusion, the worst in the Mekong Delta in the last 100 years.