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Vietnamese athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics are about to board a plane home from Japan (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnamese athletes competing at the
2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will fly back home on August 4, wrapping up their journey at the global sporting event.
Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Sports Administration
Tran Duc Phan said that there remains a huge gap between the ability of Vietnamese athletes and their rivals at the Olympic arena and the athletes did not obtain expected results at the Games.
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered a major blow to the preparations of the athletes, he explained, as most of them could not join training sessions and competitions due to
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Mekong Delta braces for drought, salt intrusion
By Hoang Nam  March 14, 2021 | 08:00 am GMT+7
Learning it the hard way from last year s drought and salinity, Mekong Delta farmers have been preparing their crops for the worst.
Early March, Huynh Huu Loc, 62, comes to check the water level in canals around his family’s durian farm, which stretches 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) on the islet of Ngu Hiep in the eponymous commune of Cai Lay District, Tien Giang Province.
Under the scorching sun of southern Vietnam’s dry season, the canals of two meter wide each are filled with water of one meter deep, running in between lines of durian, which is often dubbed Vietnam s king of fruit for its special and possibly addictive taste.
Red River s clear colors blamed on dams, pollution
By Gia Chinh  February 25, 2021 | 08:09 am GMT+7
With the Red River turning a surprisingly clear blue-green shade in its upstream sections, the absence of its usual muddy, pinkish color is being blamed on dams and polluting factories.
The Red River flowing through Lao Cai has been surprisingly clear for about a week, February 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Pham Ngoc Trien.
For a week now, the Red River section that flows through Lao Cai Province has become so clear that there are some shallow areas towards the banks where the river bed can be seen at a depth of one meter. While this looks like a welcome development, experts say this is happening because of withheld alluvium and pollution caused by factories on the river banks.