Dau Tieng to release more water into salination-affected river Van Nam By Van Nam - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Dau Tieng Reservoir is expected to discharge an additional 50 million cubic meters of water into the Saigon River in the coming months to dilute saltwater. The water discharge will allow Tan Hiep water treatment plant to take sufficient crude water for processing. Nguyen Anh Thai, head of the irrigation management department at Dau Tieng-Phuoc Hoa Irrigation Co, said after nine times of discharging water into the river, the water level in the reservoir is only 18.47 meters, 2.2 meters lower than in the same period last year. The remaining volume of water in the reservoir totals only 619 million cubic meters. Though it has almost touched the lowest water level permissible of 17 meters, the reservoir will release about 30 million cubic meters into the Saigon River in May and another 20 million cubic meters next month if it does not rain in this city. The objective … [Read more...] about Dau Tieng to release more water into salination-affected river
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Vietnamese books attract attention at Frankfurt Book Fair
Vietnamese books attract attention at Frankfurt Book Fair Slovenian Modrijan Publishing House, China National Publications Import and Export Corp, partners from Malaysia, Canada, France and Colombia have offered cooperation and purchase of copyrights from local publishers. Vietnamese participants include the Ho Chi Minh City Book Distribution Joint Stock Company-Fahasa, Phuong Nam Cultural Corp., Dai Truong Phat Company, Tre Publishing House, Dong A Book Company, Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House, First News, Thong Nhat Print Company, Viet Book Company, Phuong Dong Company and Thai Thinh Intellectual Company. Publishers have presented to international readers more than 1,000 books and e-books on various subjects introducing Vietnamese tradition, cultural, land and people. Exchanges and forums on Vietnamese books and cooperation will be held during the book fair. 2013 Frankfurt International Book Fair was held from October 9-13. The event is one of the world's largest … [Read more...] about Vietnamese books attract attention at Frankfurt Book Fair
Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 1
Society Society -- Saigon Railways is planning to launch a new luxurious carriage in the SPT8 train running on the Ho Chi Minh City-Phan Thiet route on September 2. The carriage has 56 seats which can be converted into beds equipped with sockets for phone and computer charging. -- The People’s Committee of the southern province of Tay Ninh has said it had encouraged nearly 600 Vietnamese-Cambodian children living along Dau Tieng Lake in Tan Chau and Tan Bien Districts to go to school. -- Reports from the Ministry of Public Security showed that more than 700 die in road accidents in Vietnam each month. -- According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the northern region will experience rain on a large scale during the holiday celebrating National Day (September 2). This year, the holiday lasts from Friday to Sunday this week. -- The People's Court of the south-central province of Khanh Hoa has sentenced three Russians who used fake bank cards to … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 1
Dau Tieng reservoir to be replenished soon
Dau Tieng reservoir to be replenished soon By Van Nam - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Water from Phuoc Hoa reservoir in Binh Phuoc Province will start flowing into Dau Tieng reservoir from June 30 this year at a rate of some 180,000 cubic meters per hour, thus saving the major irrigation work from exhaustion, said the reservoir operator. Vu Duc Hung, director of Dau Tieng Water Reservoir Irrigation Company, told the Daily yesterday that the supplementary water would flow through a 40-km canal to help boost the water supply capacity of Dau Tieng reservoir for the lowlands. Dau Tieng reservoir covers a total area of 27,000 hectares in Tay Ninh and Binh Duong provinces with a total designed capacity of 1.8 billion cubic meters when the water level reaches the maximum height of 24 meters. However, Hung said, Dau Tieng reservoir currently has only 600 million cubic meters of water, but the useable amount for the lowlands is only 200 million cubic meters. The reservoir has been … [Read more...] about Dau Tieng reservoir to be replenished soon