Re: VN News (Apr. 27, 1997)

[Hong Lam Vu <vuh000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>]

> 
> Hanoi to spend 17 billion dollars to fight floods in Mekong
> delta 
> 
> HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam is planning to invest 17 billion dollars between
> now and 2010 in a project to fight floods which cause huge loss of
> lives and property every year in the south, the official Vietnam News
> Agency (VNA) reported Sunday.
> 
> The Mekong delta area traditionally suffers serious flooding during
> several months of monsoon rains which regularly hit the southern
> provinces.
> 
> The southern "rice bowl" accounts for 60 percent of Vietnam's rice
> exports and more than 60 percent of fruit output of the whole country.
> 
> The agency did not specify how the government was to finance the
> colossal project.
> 
> Most of the capital for the anti-flood project would be spent on
> building protecting dykes, communication infrastructure like bridges
> and roads and accommodation for local people in flood-affected areas,
> the report said.
>                  ___________________________________

Mi`nh nghi~ la` o+? MekongDelta ne^n dda`o ke^nh ho+n la` ne^n dda('p dde^
nhu+ o+? RedRiverDelta. I may be wrong and sorry for my ignorance.

La^m.