However, its vital role in Vietnam's economy and food security is under significant threat. The delta is listed among the five most vulnerable globally, alongside the Ganges River Delta (India and ...

Credit: Quinn Goranson In the delta region of South Vietnam, where the Mekong River flows into the South ... dichotomy within this framing. In North Vietnam, where the central government resides ...

The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's largest river system, was once a promising destination for migrants from the north of the country during the centuries that shaped the southern region. However, it now ...

The Vietnamese National Assembly on Tuesday discussed a proposal to establish a free trade zone in the northern port city ...

Trang An kent ook rijstveldlandschappen met dorpen en heilige plaatsen. Located within Ninh Binh Province of North Vietnam near the southern margin of the Red River Delta, the Trang An Landscape ...

And with rising seas gnawing away at its southern edge and dams hemming the Mekong River upstream, farming in the fertile delta is getting harder. Its contribution to Vietnam’s GDP has dropped ...

CAN THO – One summer morning, Ms Le Thi Hong Mai’s home collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where shoreline erosion caused by sand mining and hydropower dams threatens hundreds ...

In the southern reaches of Vietnam ... its delta for three days. From Ho Chi Minh City, we’d driven two hours south west to a tiny jungle dock at Mo Cay near the point where the river drains ...