The Cambodian Culture Week in Vietnam 2025, an important part of the countries' cultural and artistic cooperation plan for the 2023-2027 period, takes place in Bac Lieu and Vinh Long provinces.

Bac Lieu considers combating IUU fishing as an urgent, important, and long-term task to ensure the sustainable development of its fishery industry, said a provincial leader.

Nam noted that the Czech Republic has great potential for cooperation with Vietnamese localities, especially in areas such as machinery and equipment manufacturing, science and technology, chemicals, fertilisers and pharmaceuticals.

Deputy Minister of Public Security Lt. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Lam said that in recent years, the ministry has spearheaded fundraising campaigns and collaborated with localities to build more than 28,600 homes, along with numerous schools and educational facilities, at a total cost of over 1.4 trillion VND (about 53.8 million USD).

The province has contributed an additional 7 billion VND to ensure each home receives 60 million VND (2,360 USD) in support.

The province is engaging local businesses and organisations in the elimination of substandard housing, ensuring better life quality for low-income families.

Salt is not only an essential product but also cultural heritage and plays an importance role in the economy and various fields, said Deputy PM Tran Hong Ha.

Bac Lieu has set ambitious housing goals, planning to construct and renovate 2,883 houses for revolution contributors, 1,760 for poor and near-poor households, and 176 for ethnic minority families. The province estimates nearly 263 billion VND will be needed to achieve these targets.

In 2024 alone, 779 homes were built, allowing vulnerable families in Bac Lieu province to celebrate the Lunar New Year in a safe and secure environment

After a challenging period, seafood harvesting in early 2025 has become more favourable for fishermen in Bac Lieu province, located in the Mekong Delta. Higher catches, coupled with rising seafood prices, have ensured stable incomes, promising a prosperous year ahead.

Authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu have set a goal to replace makeshift and dilapidated homes for 1,760 poor households by 2025, heard a meeting of businesses on January 17.

A working delegation of Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province led by Deputy Governor Em Pheap visited the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu to extend New Year wishes to local authority on January 14.

In 2025, the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu aims to earn 1.2 billion USD from exporting shrimp, one of the key export products that accounts for over 95% of its total export value.

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on October 21 signed a cooperation agreement with Uiseong county, Gyeongsangbuk-do province of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on sending local labourers to the RoK to work seasonally under the form of locality-to-locality collaboration between the two countries in the 2023 - 2027 period.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed off a development plan for the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu that will cost 16-18 billion USD from now until 2030.

The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu considers combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as an urgent, important and long-term task to ensure the sustainable development of its fishery industry, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Pham Van Thieu has said.

Bac Lieu has set developing hi-tech shrimp farming models as a primary direction to make the Mekong Delta province the "national shrimp industry hub" and develop the "Bac Lieu clean shrimp" brand.

Bac Lieu has set developing hi-tech shrimp farming models as a primary direction to make the Mekong Delta province the "national shrimp industry hub" and develop the "Bac Lieu clean shrimp" brand.

The Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the southern province of Bac Lieu and Bac Lieu city People’s Committee on March 26 organised an event to release over 6 million shrimp fry to sea to regenerate aquatic resources and improve public awareness on aquatic resources protection and regeneration.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue on January 25 extended greetings and presented gifts on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (called Tet in Vietnamese) to families of policy beneficiaries, revolutionary contributors, poor households, Agent Orange/dioxin victims, and workers facing difficulties in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.