The most advanced groups lived along the coast and in the lower Mekong River valley and delta regions in houses constructed on stilts where they cultivated rice, fished and kept domesticated animals.

They divide into two parallel channels, the Mekong River proper and the Basak River, and flow independently through the delta areas of Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea.

In September or in October, the flow of the Mekong River, fed by monsoon rains, increases to a point where its outlets through the delta cannot handle the enormous volume of water.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch " Operation Deckhouse Five " in the Mekong River delta.

File: Mekong-kilns. jpg | Brickmaking kilns, Mekong delta.

The Mekong river delta or Mekong delta, covering about 40, 000 square kilometers, is a low-level plain not more than three meters above sea level at any point and criss-crossed by a maze of canals and rivers.

The effect is to reduce significantly the danger of devastating floods in the Mekong delta, where the river floods the surrounding fields each year to a level of one to two meters.

Natural hazards: occasional typhoons ( May to January ) with extensive flooding, especially in the Mekong River delta.

From 1859 – 67, French troops expanded their control over all six provinces on the Mekong delta and formed a colony known as Cochinchina.

The same could be applied to the delta of the Mekong in Vietnam.

in the Mekong delta of southern Vietnam.

The most advanced groups lived along the coast and in the lower Mekong river valley and delta regions where they cultivated rice and kept domesticated animals.

Found in the 1st century CE, Funan was located on the lower reaches of the Mekong River delta area, in what is today southeast Cambodia and the extreme south of Vietnam.

In 2005, Lê Minh Đức, an official of Tiền Giang province, suggested that the flag was designed by another cadre, Lê Quang Sô, a native of Mỹ Tho Province in the Mekong delta.

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta.

The Mekong Delta ( “ Nine Dragon river delta ”) is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries.

The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of southwestern Vietnam of.

It was still fairly common in the Mekong River delta until the 1920s but is now almost depleted, with a small remnant population breeding in Cambodia, southern Laos and possibly in Vietnam.

File: Bandsaw-resaw. jpg | Larger resaw, Mekong delta boatyard, note width of blades, about 150mm or 6 ".

Cần Thơ () is Vietnam's fourth largest city, and the largest city in the Mekong delta.

Recent historical research has shown that the Mongols, who destroyed Nanzhao in 1253 and made the area a province of their empire — naming it Yunnan — exercised a decisive political influence in the middle Mekong Valley for the better part of a century.

The Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network ( GMSARN ) is a network of academic and research institutions in a Greater Mekong sub-region.

The Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute ( CLRRI, Vietnamese: Viện lúa Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long ), situated in Can Tho, Vietnam, is a governmental institution dedicated to agricultural research.

Communist guerrillas recently have been reported increasing their activities and the great flood of the Mekong River has interposed a new crisis.

The Mekong has thus not been an obstacle but a facilitator for communication, and the similarities between Laos and northeast Thai society — same people, same language — reflect the close contact that has existed across the river for centuries.

Although the Mekong was established as a border by French colonial forces, travel from one side to the other has been significantly limited only since the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR, or Laos ) in 1975.

A significant amount of land in the Yellow River's source area has been designated as the Sanjiangyuan ("' Three Rivers ' Sources ") National Nature Reserve, to protect the source region of the Yellow River, the Yangtze, and the Mekong.

German Metal band Mekong Delta has an album titled The Music Of Erich Zann.

It has a population of about 80, 000, situated at the confluence of the Xe Don and Mekong Rivers.

Since 1975, Pakse has become an economic power and of regional importance within the region and the construction of a bridge over the Mekong ( built with Japanese aid ), allowing road traffic with Ubon Ratchathani in Thailand, has further integrated the city with neighbouring countries.

To date, Jollibee has more than 30 stores in Vietnam: in the cities of Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Da Nang, Nha Trang, in the provinces of Vinh Phuc, Dong Nai and all provinces in Mekong Delta Region.

Nowadays the site where Phra Loup Lek would submerge himself beneath the earth has been overtaken by the waters of the Mekong and washed away ( presumably leaving only the shrine rescued and preserved at the front of the vihara at today ’ s Wat Sri Mongkol South ( ว ั ดศร ี มงคลใต ้)).

However, the province has become much less isolated in recent years, with the upgrading of a major road up from the Mekong valley city of Pakse, plus two major road projects connecting Sekong to Vietnam to the east.

The Mekong Delta has recently been dubbed as a ' biological treasure trove '.

In the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, there is an interlacing drainage and irrigation canal system that has become the symbol of this area and impacts on the lifestyle of local people.

The Madison dance has become very popular in the Kingdom of Cambodia and Kampuchea Krom ( Mekong delta ).

In more recent years, Nong Khai has become a popular destination, with full Tourism Authority of Thailand: th: การท ่ องเท ี่ ยวแห ่ งประเทศไทย and local backing, during the Buddhist Lent festival when mysterious balls of light, or Naga fireballs, rise from the Mekong river.

Although the old French colonial quarter of the town, along the Mekong River-front, is depressed and crumbling, the town's proximity to Thailand's booming economy has brought about new commercial development in the northern part of the town, near both the river crossing and the bus terminal.

Groom has also produced and presented documentaries for BBC Radio Four, including: George Oliver: A Man For All Seasons, the story of a Bedfordshire Gamekeeper ; Peak Park Pressures-Britain's first national park ; and Ferry Across the Mekong: 2 thirty minute programmes ( Sony nominated ) in which he makes a return trip to Cambodia.

Its extensive drainage basin supports a biodiversity comparable with the Mekong and is home to about 7 million people.

According to a UN climate report, the Himalayan glaciers that are the principal dry-season water sources of Asia's biggest rivers-Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Yellow-could disappear by 2035 as temperatures rise and human demand rises.

The regiment is responsible for curbing human trafficking and other illegal movements across the Mekong into Thailand from northwestern Laos.

* Mekong subregional cooperation agreement to fight human trafficking ( COMMIT ), 2004