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  The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang has become the third province in Vietnam to report bird flu outbreak this year, the Department of Animal Health reported Sunday. The agency made the statement just over two months after announcing that the epidemic had been curbed, along with foot-and-mouth disease...

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  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...

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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...

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Huynh Thanh Thang, deputy head of judicial office in Chau Thanh District, the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, at the police station in Can Tho City Tuesday A judicial official was taken into three-day custody Wednesday in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho for allegedly stealing the gun of a police officer the day before....

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  Industry stakeholders grapple with falling production, higher costs and low prices Farmers harvest tra fish in the Mekong Delta. A shortage of the fish is expected to recur next month. As many as 147 firms have stopped seafood processing and export to pursue other kinds of business...

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  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...

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A farmer feeds his cows on a dry riverbank in the Mekong Delta. Environmentalists have called for the cancellation of the first dam planned by Laos on the lower reaches of the Mekong River. Vietnam has officially asked Laos to delay the construction of a controversial dam on the lower Mekong River for ten years to have more...

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The newly-opened Can Tho International Airport After two years of construction, a new international airport opened in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho Saturday. The Can Tho International Airport, which cost VND3 trillion (US$153 million), was built on an area of 20,750 square meters with state-of-the-art facilities, the...

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The Mekong Delta region is considered a land rich in tourism potential. However, income from tourism just accounts for 2.75 percent of Vietnam’s total income from the industry VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta region is considered a land rich in tourism potential. However, income from tourism just accounts for 2.75 percent of...

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Nguyen Tri Ngoc from MARD spoke to Viet Nam News about this year’s rice production and exports. VnnNews – Nguyen Tri Ngoc, director of the Department of Cultivation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, spoke to Viet Nam News about this year’s rice production and exports.   Droughts and floods threaten...

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