Mekong delta

A man living and working in Binh Tan District in Ho Chi Minh City has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in his hometown in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh. L.V.D., 33, hailing from Tra Vinh’s Tra Cu District, was logged as COVID-19 patient No. 13,258, the provincial Department of Health said on Monday. D. works as a delivery man for Duy Tan Plastics Company on Ho Hoc Lam Street in An Lac Ward of Binh Tan District and temporarily resides at Nam Long residential area on the same street. The company requested D. not to go to work from June 16 after he had come into direct contact a day before with two drivers in the same department, who had been sent to centralized COVID-19 quarantine facilities for unknown reasons. Medical authorities in his residential area collected samples from him and other residents for COVID-19 testing at around 12:00 pm on June 19. As D.’s residential area was still not placed under lockdown at that time, he rode his motorcycle from Ho Chi … [Read more...] about Returnee from Ho Chi Minh City tests positive for COVID-19 in Mekong Delta province

A man from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping a six-year-old girl twice. The People’ Court in the An Giang Province on Monday imposed the punishment upon Lam Van Tuong, 52, for raping an under 16-year-old person. The indictment showed that Tuong’s latest sexual assault took place at around 5:00 pm on March 19. After drinking alcohol, Tuong headed to an alley next to his house and saw A. – his six-year-old neighbor. The man grabbed the girl and pushed her to the wall to rape her. Tuong was caught in the act by the victim’s mother, so he turned himself in to police shortly after. Interrogated by police officers, Tuong eventually admitted to having raped A. on another occasion in May 2020, when the victim went to his house to play with his grandchild. He gave the girl VND2,000, or nine U.S. cents, following the incident and told her not to tell anyone. Aside from the jail term, Tuong was required to pay A.’s family VND14 million … [Read more...] about Man jailed for raping 6-year-old neighbor in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

A farmer trying to save crops impacted by early floods in Hong Ngu district, the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Farmers in Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos. Mekong countries have also discharged water from their reservoirs after the dam breach in Laos, causing water levels to rise in the delta, Tran Ba Hoang, head of the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research , told vietnamplus.vn. The water level was expected to peak at 3.4-3.6m, he said. According to Nguoi Lao Dong (The Labourer) newspaper, thousands of hectares of rice and cash crops in An Giang province had been submerged in An Phu, Tinh Bien, Chau Doc and Tan Chau, causing huge losses to farmers. Tran Anh Thu, Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said flooding caused by the rising level of … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta farmers struggle with floods

A former lottery ticket seller who has received many prestigious awards over the years has been living in special circumstances. Thia teaches swimming Tran Thi Kim Thia, or Sau Thia, 63, was born into a poor family and grew up in Go Cong Dong district in Tien Giang province. As her parents died young, she came to Hung Thanh commune in Thap Muoi district in Dong Thap province at the age of 34, and has been living there since. Unmarried, with no children, Sau Thia lives alone. When she was young, she earned her living by selling lottery tickets and peeling cashews. If she could sell 200 tickets a day, she would have VND200,000. For every kilogram of peeled cashew, she got VND400 more. In the 1980-1990s, she was invited to take the work of the women’s union. Later, she worked at the Red Cross as a collaborator in the population planning program. In 2002, when the Hung Thanh commune localities launched a project on swimming universalization for children, she became a … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta lottery-ticket seller named as one of Forbes’ 2021 inspiring women

Rice – shrimp farming fields in Bac Lieu province’s Hong Dan district. (Photo: VNA) Bac Lieu (VNS/VNA) - The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu plans to expand large-scale production and the use of advanced techniques to improve agricultural yield and quality and raise farmers' incomes from now to 2025. The provincial People’s Committee targets production of 1.17 million tonnes of paddy, including 190,240 tonnes of organic paddy, a year by 2025. It plans to expand large-scale rice fields to 100,000ha, or about half of the province’s total rice area. Farmers participating in large-scale rice fields will have contracts with rice companies that will ensure stable prices. It also plans to produce 600,000 tonnes of seafood a year by 2025, with half of that being shrimp. About 20,500 tonnes of organic shrimp will be produced a year by 2025. It targets breeding more pigs, buffalo, cows and goats, and 3.5 million poultry a year by 2025. The province, which is the delta’s … [Read more...] about Bac Lieu to expand large-scale agricultural production