John Kerry stood in the valleys and shadows of death in the Mekong Delta.
What do the people who were in the Mekong Delta at the time say?
The effect will be to increase the dry-season flow in the Mekong mainstream from China to the Mekong delta.
Speaking truth to power from the Mekong Delta to the Paris peace talks.
He was a gunboat officer on the Mekong Delta, earning the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.
Back in 1968, Hagel was a specialist in the 2nd Battalion of the 47th Infantry Regiment, fighting in the Mekong Delta.
The backwaters are similar to south Vietnam's Mekong Delta, featuring canals, lakes, banana trees and paddy fields, only much less populated.
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Kerry served as a gunboat officer on the Mekong Delta, earning the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.
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The bear, called Map-map, is one of nine bears living at the Mekong Delta Bear Sanctuary near Rach Gia in South-west Vietnam.
'The Children of the Dump' focused on a community in the Mekong Delta, where one woman is using literacy to help fight a war against child trafficking.
Chuck Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of combat serving in the Mekong Delta both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.
In the southern Mekong Delta, where most of Vietnam's rice is grown, farmers face crippling debts because of a discriminatory rice-trading system that favours rapacious middlemen and state-owned exporting companies.
The Vietnamese fear losses of fish and agricultural production in the fertile Mekong delta, and have demanded a moratorium on dams on the main stream of the Mekong for ten years.
One monk, Thich Quang Do, was arrested in October with a group of followers for trying to deliver aid to people stricken by floods, the worst in living memory, in the Mekong delta.
Many of these areas are found in Asia, such as the Ganges River Delta, the Mekong River Delta and islands in the South Pacific.
In the Mekong River Delta, for instance, the sea level rising by 2 meters (6.5 feet) could mean the loss of millions of acres of agricultural land, reducing it by half, Ehrhart said.
By the time the Mekong enters Vietnam, it has already formed a delta, leaving no opportunity for dam-building so the government is building five dams on the one big tributary that strays across its mountainous border with Cambodia instead.
The potential for new large-scale upstream irrigation in the Mekong basin is limited by topography and so the annual flow of 400-500 billion cubic metres into the Delta is just not to going to disappear.
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