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PSNews - With the theme Rebuild Tourism, Rebound with Resilience, the 2022 Mekong Tourism Forum is scheduled to be held in Vietnam from October 9 – 14. This will be the first in-person meeting of the six Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) destinations since the pandemic began in 2019.

PSNews - The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) in collaboration with the delegation of the European Union (EU) in Vietnam held the “EU-Mekong Cooperation Conference” on March 16.

"It is very important for ASEAN and all the sub-regional partners to keep implementing the existing commitments under respective frameworks", Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh on July 14 affirmed.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to coordinating with Japan and other Mekong countries in implementing the Tokyo Strategy 2018 for Mekong-Japan Cooperation.

Japan highly values Vietnam’s important roles in the Mekong-Japan cooperation mechanism, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Nguyen Quoc Cuong.

Localities in the western region of the Mekong Delta need to foster regional cooperation to create highly competitive tourism products, officials have said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed Vietnam’s commitment to continued improvement in the business environment to create a facilitating and competitive business environment at the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Business Summit’s plenary meeting in Hanoi on March 30.

The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Business Summit, which opened in Hanoi on March 30 on the sidelines of the sixth GMS Summit as an initiative of Vietnam, has created an opportunity for governments to hold dialogue with enterprises and development partners, and encourage their stronger engagement in GMS activities.

Environment ministers from the six countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) endorsed a 5-year environment agenda that includes more than $540 million worth of priority projects to spur green investments and increase environmental cooperation to help the subregion achieve sustainable growth.

PSNews – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on January 8 launched a photo contest on Instagram to introduce development achievements in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS).

As many as 18 million residents in the Mekong Delta are suffering serious consequences as the Mekong River is drying up due to over exploitation of hydropower plants in upstream countries, delegates heard at a recent conference in the Delta province of An Giang.

The preservation and promotion of water cultural values in the Mekong Delta have become more urgent than ever before under the impacts of the fourth industrial revolution and international integration as well as the global climate change, heard a workshop in Can Tho city on November 28.

A new campaign aimed at discovering the beauty of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has been launched with experiences and stories of travellers.

Traditional handicraft villages in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang are facing labour shortages as young people are leaving to work at industrial parks in HCM City and southeastern provinces.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh has asked the government for VND76 billion (over US$3.3 million) in financial support to help the province cope with drought and saline intrusion in the dry season in 2017.