Can Tho, Vietnam News

Prepaid subscribers pushing and shoving to register their personal information at a MobiFone store in Ho Chi Minh City Several new regulations will come into force on January 1 while others will be amended.

If water levels rise in Vietnam's Mekong Delta as a result of climate change, more and more people may have to adapt to life on water.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday morning kicked off the construction of a new waterway enabling sea vessels to enter the Hau River, a major branch of the Cuu Long River, in the southern province of Tra Vinh.

We ask how it could have occurred. The view from Tay Ninh Tay Ninh and Thanh Hoa are two provinces which have the biggest sugar cane growing areas in the south and north.

Despite a decade of development, the Mekong Deltaa s tourism industry has failed to show robust growth.

" Despite their best intentions, students who study abroad using government funds find it difficult to contribute to the State when they return.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to develop tra catfish production and consumption in the Cuu Long Delta over the next 10 years.

Power hungry Vietnam will turn to rice husk in a big way as it seeks renewable energy sources to support its economic development.

The education ministry is drafting a decree on new tuition fees and will submit it to the Government next week for approval, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan has said.

A group of journalists from BBC World Service, an international multimedia broadcaster, and their local counterparts began yesterday, December 7, a four-day expedition on boat to explore the effects of climate change on life in Viet Nama TMs Cuu Long Delta.

A team of journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation will come to Vietnam to examine climate change issues in the country and broadcast them to the world, said a BBC official.

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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will lead the Vietnamese delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to show the countrya s determination to work with the rest of the world to cope with climate change.

Experts said at a workshop on Vietnamese rice held in Vi Thanh town, Mekong Delta Hau Giang Province, on Tuesday that the country needs to make the rice industry more efficient with better mechanisation, large-scale production, reduction of post-harvest losses and better storage facilities.

Police in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho said they have been ordered to investigate allegations of embezzlement against a Labor Hero, local newswire VnExpress reported on Saturday.

Farmers harvest rice at Co Do farm in Can Tho. A new decree next year would force many small and medium-sized rice exporters to shut down, while competition has already been dominated by a small cabal of big companies for years, industry insiders said.

Ba Suong at the appeals court on November 19. Speaking to the press on November 25, a National Assembly vice chairman, Uong Chu Luu, said "the Appeals Court has ruled; the public still disagrees.

NA deputy, lawyer charge that land might have been the core issue; national prosecution office pledges to review case.

" On the sidelines of a National Assembly session on 21 November, Justice Committee chairwoman Le Thi Thu Ba said that the committee may review an eight-year prison sentence meted out to elderly labour hero Tran Ngoc Suong if it is clear that public opinion disagrees with the verdict.

The National Assemblya s Justice Committee may supervise related agenciesa handling of the case in which jail sentence given to a Labor Hero has kicked up considerable drama and controversy.