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Erosion on a Hau River islet in the Mekong Delta. Photo credit: VnExpress

Islets in southern Vietnam vanishing as erosion threatens millions

Upstream dams on the Mekong and excessive sand mining have been blamed for the dire situation

Poor patients in a charity cataract operation program at Can Tho Central General Hospital. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

Code red: Vietnam faces serious doctor shortage in Mekong Delta

Some provinces do not have enough specialists in areas such as tuberculosis and mental health

An area affected by erosion in southern Vietnam. Photo credit: Viet Truong/Zing

The climate change scenario for Vietnam's Mekong Delta is very bleak

Weather conditions have been harsh recently, but things may get worse

A boy holding his brother walks on a drought-hit rice field in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on March 2, 2016. Photo credit: AFP

World Bank loans Vietnam $560 million for urban development, climate resilience

The two projects are expected to benefit 420,000 people in Can Tho City and 1.2 million people in nine...

Environment police of Can Tho caught the company red-handed releasing its untreated wastewater to Hau River in May. Photo provided by Can Tho police

Chemical producer fined for untreated wastewater release

  This has been the fourth time Huy Viet-Tay Do Company was caught discharging untreated wastewater since 2007

The Mekong experiences

The Mekong experiences

14 things you should try for a complete summer vacation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

A farmer harvests dried sugarcane on her drought-stricken farm in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on March 31, 2016. Photo credit: Kham/Reuters

World Bank to loan Vietnam $310 mln for climate resilience

Around 1.2 million people in the Mekong Delta will benefit from the project

A sinking section along the Mekong River in Vietnam. Photo credit: Huynh Xay/Dan Viet

Mekong Delta loses half of silt to upstream dams: scientists

The lack of silt has seriously affected cultivation and caused erosion in Vietnam’s rice basket.

Labourers transplant rice seedlings in a paddy field in the Nile Delta town of Kafr Al-Sheikh, north of Cairo, Egypt, May 28, 2008.

As Asia's rice crop shrivels, food security fears resurface

  Any big supply disruption can be extremely sensitive.

A woman in Ba Tri District, Ben Tre Province receives drinking water under a New Zealand government-funded program. Photo courtesy of Oxfam

New Zealand, Oxfam offer drought relief to Mekong Delta province

Up to 6,000 farmers Ben Tre will receive cash grants to buy food and water supplies for their animals 

Laos releases dam water to ease drought in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Laos releases dam water to ease drought in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

The delta, Vietnam's major farming region, is suffering from severe drought and saltwater intrusion

People carry fresh water past a field in Vietnam's Mekong Delta hit by serious drought. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

Vietnam calls for sustainable use of Mekong River water amid crippling drought

Regional countries are urged to work together and share the common resources

A Chinese paramilitary policeman guards a base at the Mekong river port of Mouang Mom on the Laos side of the Golden Triangle, near the border between Laos, Myanmar and Thailand March 2, 2016.

Led by China, Mekong nations take on Golden Triangle narco-empire

  An United Nations agency estimates that Southeast Asia's trade in heroin and methamphetamine was worth $31 billion in 2013.

A father with his children walk over the cracked soil of a 1.5 hectare dried up fishery at the Novaleta town in Cavite province, south of Manila May 26, 2015.

China to release water from dam to alleviate SE Asia drought

  China "hopes it can be of help in alleviating the drought downstream".

A farmer in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh takes water from a shallow pond. The province is among the country's hardest hit areas in this year's dry season. Photo credit: Minh Anh/Zing

Vietnam's southern delta braces for worst drought in century

30 percent of the winter-spring rice crop is now under threat
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