A new crop of factories requires roads, and that means sand. To keep up, the country is importing from Cambodia on a massive ...

Dark Docs The Deadliest Pig of the Vietnam War Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025 As night ushered in a hushed silence over Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Petty Officer David Larsen ...

Mekong Delta, Vietnam, July 1967: An underwater pothole gives a hapless GI an unexpected dunking as a buddy grins at his discomfort. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ coverage of the Vietnam War?

Life in a War Zone Then it was on to Vietnam ... 86th Engineering Battalion at Camp Viking firebase in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. “We were at a firebase. Home of the 2nd/47th Infantry.

The plans languished, the region descended into war ... in the Mekong Delta threatens to dump its load of rice. The warm, humid delta, fertilized by river sediment, has allowed Vietnam to become ...

HANOI: More than 40 people went on trial in Vietnam Monday (March 24) over illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta, state media said, as concern mounts over the environmental impact of ...

Today, half a century after Reunification Day, rice yields in the delta have surged from 5–6 million tonnes in 1977 to more ...

Over the years, the Mekong Delta has consistently affirmed its role as a key pillar of the Vietnamese economy, contributing ...