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A ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the return of imprisoned revolutionaries from Phu Quoc Island was held at Phu Quoc Prison, a national special national relic in Phu Quoc City, the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on March 26.

Kien Giang Province extracted around VND50 billion (US$2 million) from the local budget serving renovation and upgrade of the special national historical site of Phu Quoc Prison for the period 2021-2025. 

As a three-year pilot program allowing Vietnamese people to gamble at a casino on Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang is set to finish by the end of this year, the Ministry of Finance has asked for a two-year extension due to the Covid-19 pandemic badly affecting the casino business over the last two years.

The two southern provinces of Kien Giang and Ca Mau are joining hands in fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in their waters.

Nearly 45,000 domestic and foreign tourists have been sticking on the islands of Kien Giang Province under the bad weather condition of thundery rains and rough sea affected by the tropical depression for recent two days, according to Director of Tourist Department of Kien Giang Province Bui Quoc Thai. 

Various types of water transport carrying passengers between the mainland and islands have been temporarily suspended due to bad weather, said Director of the Kien Giang Maritime Port Authority Tran Van Tai on July 11.

A lacking expressway system, degrading road quality and small-scaled routes that cannot meet the increasing traffic volume of the Mekong Delta is slowly taking away the competitive edge of this giant granary.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang held an inauguration ceremony of the Cai Lon- Cai Be irrigation project on March 5.

Apart from Ho Chi Minh City and the capital city of Hanoi, the Mekong Delta provinces and cities of Can Tho, An Giang and Kien Giang will simultaneously hold activities to respond to the memorial ceremony for frontline forces, officers, soldiers and compatriots who have died from coronavirus which will be taken place at Thong Nhat (Reunification) Hall in Ho Chi Minh City at 8 p.m. on Friday. 

The Government has approved the pilot program to receive foreign tourists in Da Nang, Quang Ninh, Quang Nam, Khanh Hoa and Kien Giang in three phases, said head of the Hotel Department under the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, Vu Van Thanh at a virtual conference on the real estate markets in Da Nang and Quang Nam that are heating up in the new normal state on November 3.

Phu Quoc Island in Kien Giang province expects to welcome international visitors with vaccine passports beginning in October.

Phu Quoc island of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been named among 15 best islands in the world to retire on in 2021 by www.travelawaits.com.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has officially announced that Phu Quoc Island will become the country’s first island city.

The Provincial People’s Committee of Ca Mau yesterday declared an emergency situation about landslide at the western sea dykes and plans to protect lives and property of residents. 

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has adjusted zoning at the marine protected area of Phu Quoc National Park on Phu Quoc Island.

Depression has already occurred in many places in the coastal provinces of Ca Mau and Kien Giang in the Mekong Delta during the severe drought season this year, it is forecast that depression and landslide will continue spreading in the upcoming rainy season.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is seeking more than VND4.85 trillion (US$208.5 million) in investment for three new projects on the island of Phu Quoc.