Plans are in place to revive Nga Bay Market, but critics say it’s too late to save the floundering vendors from drowning in a river of bureaucracy.
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Vietnam floating market struggles to stay above water
Once reportedly two kilometres long, the Cai Rang market is a shadow of its former self, 300 boats on the water now, down from 550 in 2005
Climate change is already disrupting lives in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Climate change its causing flooding and droughts that damage agricultural land in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.
Mekong Delta Blues
BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth program explores how the government of Laos is determined to develop the nation by building hydroelectric dams for electricity, yet many people in the downstream countries of Cambodia and Vietnam are worried that the flow of the life-giving waters of the Mekong will be much reduced and fish life devastated. Peter Hadfield reports from the banks of the Mekong
Vietnam’s dry season to be severe this year: experts
Mekong Delta farmers experienced the worst dry season in history in 2016, and are now facing another severe season in 2017