Vietnam News » Mekong River Delta News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Light Attack Squadron Four: The Mekong Delta riverine shield of the Black Ponies
Light Attack Squadron Four "Black Ponies" flew OV-10 Broncos over Vietnam's Mekong Delta, providing surveillance, armed support and riverine air cover from 1969 to 1972.
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Sand mining in Vietnam's Mekong Delta sinks homes, livelihoods
One summer morning, 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 of thousands of people ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: How Vietnam's Mekong Delta became a cradle of homegrown religions
Unlike the Red River Delta's long-established religious traditions, southern Vietnam's Mekong region gave rise to indigenous faiths whose spiritual leaders offered healing, hope and support to ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is sinking. Can sediment save it?
In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, home to about 17 million people, large areas of land have been poldered for the cultivation of crops such as rice and shrimp. At the moment, the delta is on average less ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the lure of moving to the city grows even stronger amid climate shocks
CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) — Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung, 11-year-old twins growing up on a rickety houseboat in the Mekong Delta, have dreams. Tran loves K-pop, watches videos at night to ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: How dams built by China starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment
SOC TRANG, Vietnam (Reuters) -Standing on the bank of the Mekong River, Tran Van Cung can see his rice farm wash away before his very eyes. The paddy's edge is crumbling into the delta. Just 15 years ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Where golden sunlight meets the palm-lined Mekong River (4K)
Experience a sunset boat cruise along the Ham Luong River in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where tropical palm trees line the riverbanks beneath a colorful evening sky. The journey captures golden sunlight ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Dams and Dredging Mean Bad News for Vietnam's Mekong Delta
The release of recent research from the Netherlands adds an additional insight into what is happening in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the country’s all-important food producing region that contributes some ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Catfish Blues: The Imperiled Mekong Delta
Zeb Hogan and colleagues from the Cambodian Fisheries Administration tagging, and then releasing, a Mekong giant catfish. In his book, "Chasing Giants," Hogan describes the importance to people of ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Salinization in Mekong Delta in Vietnam to spike in March
The Mekong River Delta along Vietnam’s southern coast will show increased levels of salinity this March due to upstream dams on the river and high seas during the dry season, the Vietnamese government ...
News Vietnam » Mekong River Delta: Mekong Delta provinces discuss the importance of maintaining ecosystem services in the 5th Mekong Delta Nature and Culture Conservation Forum, Vietnam
Ca Mau, Vietnam – 12th April 2013 – More than 200 scientists, policy makers from Vietnam Ministries as well as the thirteen Delta provinces; representatives from international conservation and ...