16-08-2018 12:23
Located off Kien Luong District in the southern province of Kien Giang, Ba Lua Archipelago is a pristine landscape, which has been called the ‘Ha Long Bay of the South’.
29-07-2018 21:40
Lao authorities have warned that spreading fake news and photos of the dam collapse disaster in southern Laos violates the country’s laws.
26-07-2018 15:05
Rescuers battled fresh rains Thursday to reach scores of people still missing after a dam collapse in southern Laos that unleashed a torrent of water, washing away whole villages and killing at least 26 people.
27-03-2018 10:00
Like other villages in Vietnam, people of Dam village, also known as Bich Tri hamlet, Ha Nam province, mainly live on agricultural production. Located about 70km south of Hanoi, Dam village is famous for making Chung, square sticky rice, cakes and cassava vermicelli.
20-06-2017 09:15
With some 175 million cubic metres of water stored in an elevated position, Núi Cốc Lake’s major dam in the northern province of Thái Nguyên could devastate downstream areas if it broke, experts have said.
17-12-2015 13:57
The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved on Wednesday US$415 million in credit support, which will help improve safety for hundreds of irrigation dams in Vietnam and benefit millions of local people.
13-12-2014 09:59
Laos has officially announced its plan to develop the Don Sahong hydropower project on the Mekong River, and this project will be seriously affect Vietnam’s agriculture and aquatic resources in the Mekong Delta region, experts have warned.
31-08-2014 09:58
The US military launched fresh attacks on Islamic State (IS) forces in Iraq, using fighter aircraft and drones to carry out strikes near the Mosul dam, the Pentagon said on Saturday (Aug 30).
02-12-2013 09:55
The first phase of dam building on the Ma River for the Trung Son hydroelectric project was launched in the central province of Thanh Hoa on December 1.
15-10-2010 23:00
PHNOM PENH, October 15, 2010 - Countries in the lower Mekong River region should delay any decisions about building hydropower dams for 10 years, an influential new study said Friday, warning of the many risks involved.
27-01-2019 21:30
Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing on Saturday (Jan 26), with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil.
17-03-2016 09:41
China said on Tuesday it will discharge water from a dam on the upper Mekong River, which will help ease drought conditions in several Vietnamese locations, one day after Vietnam requested the move to be made by the Chinese.
26-03-2016 13:44
Southern provinces in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta will receive more support to purge drought and saltwater intrusion as Laos is discharging water from its dams to give some help, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.
09-04-2014 08:00
Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam is attending the Boao Form for Asia 2014 (BFA) on April 8-11 in Hainan Province, China at the invitation of the Chinese Government and the BFA Organizing Committee.
27-07-2018 15:19
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide 200,000 USD as relief aid for the Lao government to help the country in the aftermath of the collapse of the Sepien-Senamnoi hydropower dam.