This is the fifth anti-tide valves installed among the total of six valves under the project. The item of Cay Kho anti-tide drainage is deployed on Can Giuoc River, connecting Binh Chanh District and Nha Be District.

The Trung Nam Construction Investment Joint Stock Company installed an anti-tide valve in Nha Be District, Ho Chi Minh City.

After nearly five years of construction, this project has delayed the progress many times, in which the cause of problems is clearance compensation. However, the investor has committed to make efforts to synchronously construct items to complete the entire project by December 2020.

The project has been implemented at an investment cost of nearly VND10 trillion with a scale of seven items,including six large anti-tidal valves with apertures from 40 to 160m in Ben Nghe, Tan Thuan, Phu Xuan, Muong Chuoi, Cay Kho, Phu Dinh and the 7.8 km embankment along the Saigon River from Vam Thuat to Kinh River with small culverts with apertures of less than 10m. The construction site is in districts 1, 4, 7, 8, Nha Be and Binh Chanh.

Vietnamese community in Laos donate for flood victims

The Lao Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare held a ceremony in Vientiane on September 19 to receive donations from the Vietnamese community in Laos to support flood victims in the central and southern regions of Laos.

Vietnam Red Cross Society aids flood victims in Quang Tri

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Central Committee on September 8 presented aid packages to families in the central province of Quang Tri, who were affected by heavy rains and flooding from September 2 to 5.

PM approves rice aid for flood-hit residents

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide 2,000 tonnes of rice from the national reserve as food aid to residents in the central provinces of Quang Binh and Ha Tinh who suffered from serious flooding.

EU grants 100,000 EUR to flood victims in Vietnam

The European Union (EU) on August 28 granted 100,000 EUR as relief aid to local residents effected by severe floods earlier this month in Central Highlands and Mekong Delta provinces.

Urgent relief aid provided for flood-hit households in Dong Nai

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRCS) Central Committee on August 12 presented nearly 300 million VND (12,900 USD) as urgent relief aid to 98 flood-affected households in Dinh Quan district, the southern province of Dong Nai. 

Source: NDO