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Retail Asia23/02/2023

Rice farmers in the Mekong Delta have been switching to durian on thousands of hectares of lands despite warnings the soil is unsuitable and there will be oversupply. Tran Dang Khoa in Long An Province in the delta is busy preparing to harvest his durian crop he has sold to a trader at VND150,000 ($6.32) […]

Retail Asia20/10/2021

Jackfruit, longan, and lemon cultivated in the Mekong Delta are fetching two to four times the prices that prevailed when Covid-19 related transport restrictions were in force before Oct. 1. Lemons bought directly at gardens are priced VND7,000-8,000 ($0.31-0.35) per kilogram these days, while they were selling for just VND2,000 per kilogram earlier. Prices of […]

Retail Asia29/05/2019

Vietnam private equity firm Mekong Capital has issued funding to pharmacy chain Pharmacity. Pharmacity is now the eighth company to receive funding from Mekong’s latest financing round, following the firm’s investment in mattress producer Vua Nem last year. With 186 outlets retailing both traditional Vietnamese and Western medicines, Pharmacity is the country’s most widespread network […]

Retail Asia30/06/2017

Thirteen provinces and cities in Mekong Delta received 7.6 million travelers in 2016, including 900,000 foreign travelers, or 10 percent of total foreign travelers to Vietnam. Under the plan for Mekong Delta tourism development, the region would have turnover of VND25 trillion by 2020, or VND15.3 trillion higher than last year’s turnover. Some experts commented […]

Retail Asia04/05/2017

About 700 000 hectares of rice and other agriculture crops in Vietnam were destroyed by climate-induced natural disasters in 2016, reports the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Consequently, rice production, which was hit the hardest, fell by some 800,000 tons, which has forced the Ministry to fast track implementation of remedial climate change adaption […]

Retail Asia29/12/2016

Vietnam’s state-owned telecom Viettel will eliminate overseas roaming charges between its operators in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from January 2017. “Users of Metfone in Cambodia, Unitel in Laos and Viettel in Vietnam will be charged at the local mobile fee when they make cross-border calls to each other,” said Nguyen Manh Hung, Viettel’s managing director, […]

Retail Asia27/12/2016

The Vinpearl Cần Thơ Hotel, the first five-star hotel in the southern city of Cần Thơ, was inaugurated last weekend, becoming the tallest building in the Mekong Delta region. Vinpearl Cần Thơ Hotel, with 30 floors and a three-story lobby, is the ninth hotel in the chain of Vinpearl-branded tourism hotels owned by Vingroup – […]

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Oversupply fears as Mekong Delta farmers switch en masse to durian

Mekong Delta fruit prices surge as travel restrictions ease

Vietnam Equity Firm buys into Vietnam’s Pharmacity

Tourism plans in Mekong Delta called too ambitious

Vietnam looks for shrimp farming to save the Mekong Delta

Viettel pioneers free roaming in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

Tallest Mekong Delta building opens