Moving away from the Mekong to bigger cities or even abroad for better prospects isn't new. But the net outmigration — the difference between people moving out of the delta and those moving in ...

The Mekong Delta, located in Southern Vietnam, is a vast and intricate network of waterways, marshlands, and lush greenery formed by the Mekong River as it flows into the South China Sea.

Master of Science Nguyen Huu Thien, an expert in Mekong Delta Ecology: Warns of subsidence in freshwater conversion areas The dry season of 2024 is once again witnessing severe land subsidence in ...

Fostering linkage among regional localities and restructuring the tourism sector towards professionalism are among measures ...

In the winter-spring crop 2015-2016, more than 339,000 hectares of rice in coastal Mekong Delta provinces are prone to saltwater intrusion and drought, accounting for 35.5 percent of those localities’ ...

The Mekong Delta region is scrambling to protect millions of hectares of crops from drought and saltwater intrusion that could be as severe as in 2016 and 2020. At the end of September Nguyen Van Can, ...

According to the Mekong River Commission, alluvium flowing down the Mekong declined from 160 million tons in 1992 to 47.4 million tons in 2020. It forecast the volume to drop to 4.5 million tons in ...

The slow, tranquil sojourn along the lower Mekong River, cruising through rural Cambodia and Vietnam ’s backwaters, felt more like being on a 19th-century yacht than a modern cruise liner.

Originating in the Tibetan Plateau, the Mekong River stretches a distance of nearly 5,000 kilometres, flowing through six countries – China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam – and plays ...

HANOI - Vietnam’s Mekong Delta may run out of sand by 2035, an expert warned on Thursday, as sand mining and dams strip the “rice bowl” region, putting people, crops and the economy at risk ...

Rest of World News: Vietnam's "rice bowl" delta region, where the Mekong empties into the South China Sea, is predicted to run out of sand in just over a decade. But loss ...