The Ngã Năm (five-way intersection) floating market in Sóc Trăng Province’s Ngã Năm Town is one of the oldest and most attractive floating markets in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.
Thailand''s Buriram United won the Toyota Mekong Club Championship 2015
after their 1-0 victory over Cambodia''s Boeung Ket Angkor on their home
turf in Bangkok.
Two Vietnamese writers, Nguyen Ngoc Moc and Cao Xuan
Thai, have been honoured at the 6th Conference of Mekong River
Literature Awards in Vientiane, Laos.
Author Trang The Hy, one of the region''s leading contemporrary writers,
died on Tuesday at his home in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta City of
Ben Tre Province. He was 91.
Boeung Ket Angkor came from behind to defeat
Becamex Binh Duong, former champions of the Toyota Mekong Club
Championship, with a 3-2 win yesterday at Ha Noi''s Hang Day Stadium.
Member countries in the Mekong River region including Thailand, Laos,
Cambodia, Myanmar and Viet Nam should build up long-term strategies and
action plans to boost co-operation of river-based tourism in the future.
The fifth southern traditional cake festival will be
celebrated in the Mekong city of Can Tho from April 15 to 19 next year
to also mark Mekong Delta Tourism Week and National Tourism Year.
Better linkages among local governments and businesses in the Cuu Long
(Mekong) Delta are needed to fully exploit the tourism potential of the
region, the president of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Central Committee
has said.
Becamex Binh Duong held onto their V.League 1 trophy
in style, with a brilliant 4-2 victory over Dong Thap in the final
round match of yesterday''s tournament.
Truong Nguyen Thanh Nhan won the overall yellow
jersey of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Cycling Tournament which ended in
the southern province of Ben Tre yesterday.
