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This morning, August 14 the NCHMF issued weather information that the water level upstream in the Mekong River was rising. The water levels was expected to reach its peak of 3.7m at Tan Chau Station yesterday; in the Hau River at Chau Doc Station at 3.17m. The center forecast up to August 20, the water level will reach its peak of 3.85m at Tan Chau Station; in the Hau River at Chau Doc Station at 3.25m. it warned the flooding may occur at lowland areas in the provinces of An Giang, Dong Thap and Long An. This morning, in the Mekong city of Can Tho, high tides appeared on many streets alongside Hau River with floodwater level at 0.2 to 0.4m. Every year, high tides appear in Can Tho City by the beginning of September however the rising tides was appearing as soon as expected therefore local people worried that serious floods could hit the city in the upcoming time. CAO PHONG –Translated by Van Ha … [Read more...] about Can Tho City sees high tides; floods upstream rise ​

The amount will be used for painting lines, installing traffic lights, street lighting, central reservations as well as expanding roads. The National Highway No. 1 has currently eight blackspots while the National Highway No. 24B has three hotspots. First of all, the provincial People’s Committee asked the management board of Dung Quat Economic Zone and industrial parks, the Department and local administrations to adopt measures to fix these hot spot sites of road traffic accidents. By NGUYEN TRANG – Translated by UYEN PHUONG … [Read more...] about Quang Ngai determined to clear road accident blackspots

According to the chairman, the rate of present child marriage is 26.6 percent with 40 ethnic minority groups having 20 percent up and 13 having 50 percent. At the Q&A, participants paid their concern to the implementation of policies on ethnic minority groups’ access to essential social services (such as education and training; health care), infrastructure, vocational training and job creation, poverty reduction and improvement of material and spiritual lives. Marriage between first cousins accounts for 4 – 5 percent, said Mr. Chien while a perinatal and child mortality rate is still high. The percentage of pregnant women going to medical clinics is 70.9 percent and 36.3 percent of them gave birth at home. The proportion of undernourished kids is 32 percent. Just 79.2 percent of ethnic minority people can read and write whereas the country’s literate average rate is 94.7 percent. Approximately 15 percent of ethnic minority women at the age of 15 is literate. The … [Read more...] about Child marriage in ethnic minority people still high

The strongest winds near its center was estimated at 40 to 60km per hour (level 6-7). In the next 24 hours, low-pressure system will move eastward at speed of 5km per hour and then develop into a storm. On August 13, at 13pm storm will center at 20.8 degrees north latitude; 113.0 degree east longitute on the south part of Guangdong Province (China). Due to the impact of storm, on August 14 and 15 heavy rains will continue hitting the northern region. From August 15 to 17, the northern and north central provinces will experience prolonged rains. The maximum rainfall will be able to reach 250 to 350mm. Besides, tonight and tomorrow, the areas in middle and south part of the East Sea (including Truong Sa Archipelago) and the sea areas from Binh Thuan to Ca Mau continue to see southwest winds at a maximun speed of level 6, high waves at 2 -4m, rough seas. Heavy rains, thunderstorms, whirlwinds also will hit the Tokin Gulf, the sea areas from Binh Thuan to Ca Mau and Ca Mau to Kien Giang. … [Read more...] about North sees heavy rains due to low-pressure system

In the 2010-2017 period, the Vietnam’s Seafood Industry reached the average growth rate of total production value of 4.7 percent per year. In 2017 alone, total output achieved over 7.2 million tons; export turnover was US$ 8.3billion. As plan, total investment capital in the seafood sector’s infrastructure development in the 2016-2020 is expected to reach about VND 49,3trillion. In order to reach the seafood industry’s general development plan by 2020 and vision 2030 and to implement the government’s strategy in establishing five fisheries centers in major fishing grounds, Vietnam’s seafood industry needs to call for the involvement of private units, investment projects under public private partnership (PPP), having the participants from foreign investors, expanding for private sector to use ODA capital and preferential loans in seafood instructure development projects… LE NGUYEN –Translated by Kim Lien ​ Tags: fisheries department … [Read more...] about Conference to seek solutions for establishing 5 fisheries centers opened