Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

CAN THO – Farmers in the Mekong Delta have been hit with a double whammy of not only poor profits of the early winter-spring crop 2012-2013, but also falling prices offered by local exporters that put them right in at the deep end.

Le Laos va entamer cette semaine la construction – suspendue depuis un an et demi – d'un barrage controversé sur le Mékong, a indiqué un ministre, lundi 5 novembre, assurant que le projet avait été "adapté" pour répondre aux inquiétudes de ses voisins.

Cross-border smugglers operating on boats have taken advantage of floods in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to transport goods over the Cambodian border.

HCM CITY — Vietnamese experts have reiterated their call for a moratorium on dam building on the Mekong River, saying the lives of as many as 60 million people would be adversely impacted by those dams.

Firms that want to purchase the Cuu Lengthy (Mekong) Delta region will probably be given preferential treatment within plan drafted through the Secretary of state for Planning and Investment.

Plans to build hydropower dams along small branches of southeast Asia's longest river could have a devastating impact on millions of people who rely on the world's largest inland fishery, scientists said Monday.

Quatorze ours ont été sauvés du commerce illégal de la bile au Vietnam et transportés dans un centre de secours près de Hanoï, a-t-on appris mardi auprès d'une organisation de protection de la faune sauvage.

A controversial hydroelectric dam planned by Laos has suffered another setback after a regional body decided further to delay approval of the project.

L'élaboration du plan d'action de faisabilité pour se prémunir des conséquences du changement climatique dans le delta du Mékong passe impérativement par l'évaluation au cours de chaque période des impacts de ce phénomène et de la montée du niveau de la mer.

German-invested wholesale chain operator Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam on Wednesday inaugurated its first fish platform in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho under the public-private partnership (PPP) format.

Conservation group WWF on Wednesday called for urgent action to prevent the extinction of freshwater dolphins in the Mekong River, including the creation of special conservation zones.

Mekong River Delta may turn into a desert sea if 12 dams for hydropower plants are built on the river upstream, according to Nguyen Huu Thien, MA, an independent researcher about the possible impacts on the ecosystem of Mekong Delta. Rivers would die, sea would swallow Mekong River Delta

Plans to develop a cascade of hydropower dams on the Mekong River's mainstream in Laos have moved to front and center among Vietnam's strategic concerns.

A dam planned across the Mekong River, Southeast Asia's largest, has sparked a simmering debate between two communist-ruled countries, observers say.

L’évolution du débit du fleuve concorde avec les événements majeurs qui ont marqué l'histoire de la région, en particulier la guerre du Viêt-Nam.