Giong Trom district in the southern province of Ben Tre is famous for its My Long rice paper and Son Doc puff rice paper, the specialties that have been recognized as "National intangible cultural heritage". Local people continue to "keep the fire" of this hundred-year-old traditional craft, thereby preserving cultural beauty, creating sustainable livelihoods and promoting tourism development. Photo: Chuong Dai - VNA

Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, and Vinh Long have strategic locations, serving as gateways to the Mekong River's lower reaches. These provinces play a crucial role in marine economy, high-tech agriculture, renewable energy, culture, and tourism, and are home to the largest Khmer ethnic community in Vietnam.

The work is expected to significantly reduce flooding at the site during the rainy season, improving safety for more than 140 pupils and creating a better environment for their learning and play.

Ben Tre province now has 3,649 registered fishing vessels, with 3,474 licensed to operate, accounting for 95.2%. Of the boats required to undergo technical inspections, 2,282 have completed the procedure, equivalent to 91.76%. A total of 1,998 vessels are mandated to have VMS devices installed, with a compliance rate of 98.96%.

The total number of families in need of housing support in Ben Tre in 2025 stands at 2,101, with an estimated budget of 106.89 billion VND (4.1 million USD). As of March 28, construction started on 413 houses, of which 17 had been completed.

Since the beginning of 2025, the province has reported no new violations, with nearly 2,000 required to install monitoring devices having done so.

Besides, the department is responsible for registering eligible vessels, issuing safety and fishing licences, and ensuring the installation and operation of vessel monitoring systems (VMS).

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The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre will continue to strongly implement key tasks in combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities, especially completing the registration of ‘three no’s’ fishing vessels, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

Signed trade agreements are creating favourable conditions for coconut to truly become a key industrial crop. However, this is also a challenge that requires a sustainable development strategy so that coconut products can meet the increasing standard requirements of export markets.

A forum on connecting coconut production and consumption took place in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on December 13, offering a venue for relevant parties to discuss ways to fully tap the potential of both domestic and international markets to develop coconut into a billion-USD industry.

Vietnam’s fresh coconuts are being increasingly consumed in international markets such as the US, China, and the UK, highlighting a bright spot in Vietnam's fruit export sector with many opportunities for breakthroughs in the near future.

A ceremony to announce the official export of fresh coconuts of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre to the Chinese market was held on October 25 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Vietnam Mini Digital Investment and Trading JSC.

The first batches of fresh coconuts from Vietnam have arrived in China via land border gates between the two countries.

The southern province of Ben Tre is striving to attract investors to its coastal areas as a move to realise its goal of developing its eastern part.

The Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA), under the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, on October 15 officially handed over a project on sustainable coastal community development through ecotourism and the application of the sufficiency economy philosophy to Binh Dai district in Vietnam’s southern province of Ben Tre.

Thanks to efforts to intensify in-depth trade promotion, and maintain and expand export markets, the export turnover of the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre hit over 1.2 billion USD in the first three quarters of 2024, up 14.02% year-on-year, and equivalent to 70% of the yearly plan.

The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on October 3 organised an investment promotion conference themed "Ben Tre – look east vision and sustainable development potential", aiming to introduce its potential, strengths, and development orientation following the provincial master plan for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.

The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, known as the coconut capital of Vietnam, is making all necessary conditions ready to be able to export this fruit to China, given that a protocol on phytosanitary requirements for Vietnamese fresh coconuts exported to China was recently signed.

The YMCA Vietnam Social Co. Ltd. and students from Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education (ITE) have supported Phuoc Ngai Primary School in the southern province of Ben Tre to upgrade a yard of the school’s auxiliary establishment in Phuoc Ngai commune of Ba Tri district.