Russian motorcyclist falls in love with Việt Nam

Wearing a dark mask, dark glasses, a helmet and riding a rusty motorbike, you would be forgiven for thinking Ivan Os is not a usual part of the scenery in the central province of Bình Thuận. However, he is well-known to the locals. Os, who is 43-year-old and originally from Russia, had travelled widely around the world before his first visit to Việt Nam in 2015.

Online tours take people to another Sa Pa1

Though Sa Pa District in the northern province of Lào Cai has long lured tourists all-year-round due to its mild temperature, spectacular mountains, beautiful forest and unique ethnic minority groups, social distancing has now made people stay at home. However, two innovative Sa Pa locals are now offering online tours of the classic Việt Nam destination.

Trà Vinh turns to other crops on unproductive rice, sugarcane fields

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is assisting farmers with growing other crops on a total of 1,550ha of unproductive rice and sugarcane fields or switch to aquaculture or livestock farming.

Baker recreates paintings on cakes to beat lockdown boredom

During a widespread and intense lockdown, many people feel their days are longer and they do not have enough to do, but baker Nguyễn Thị Thùy Dương is buried in work.

Mekong Delta province strives to improve lives of ethnic Khmer

The lives of the Khmer people in Trà Vinh have improved significantly since the province began to prioritise investment in infrastructure and support policies for them in recent years.

Linkages between farmers and retail companies spur sales in Tiền Giang despite pandemic Farmers, agricultural co-operatives and retail companies have strengthened linkages to guarantee sales outlets for farm produce in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang amid travel restrictions during the pandemic.

Trà Vinh Province to rapidly improve irrigation to foster agriculture

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is speeding up dredging of 14 main irrigation canals with a total length of 125.3 km and expects to complete the work early next month.

Cà Mau to expand banana growing area, increase value, output The southernmost province of Cà Mau plans to expand its area under banana to 6,000ha and annual output to 120,000 tonnes by 2025.

Organic farms, agro-tourism in Bạc Liêu yield higher profits, protect the environment

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu is promoting organic and other high-quality standards for rice and key agricultural products as well as agro-tourism services in a bid to raise farmers' incomes.

Strong winds, rains kill 2 in Mekong Delta, destroy houses, trees One person each in Cà Mau and Vĩnh Long provinces died in strong winds and heavy rains in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta in recent days as they flattened houses and trees and destroyed crops.