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 ...

Delta are capitalising on their rich natural and cultural resources to foster tourism and leveraging the momentum from recent ...

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.

As inland river water gets saltier, rice farmers across the lower Mekong delta are responding by switching to shrimp farming or growing reeds. Salt water has been found 60km (37.3 miles) inland.

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 ...

Recent changes in the patterns of tropical storms are threatening the future of the Mekong River delta in Vietnam. This is one of the world’s great deltas. It is home to more than 20 million ...

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’ ...

Lush greenery in the lower Mekong region sprawls as far as the eye can see, an illustration of just how fertile the delta is. The endless green fields scored by the river's nine tributaries, which ...