Up to now, there are 41 extreme difficult communes in zone III and 33 difficult communes in zone II with 98 hamlets which have been invested by Program 135 phase II (2006 - 2010). While poor people really need budget for production, there are VND 5 billions arrearage in total budget of VND 19.78 billions for production development supporting that has been apportioned in period 2006 - 2008.
An agriculture official in the Mekong Delta has been suspended from his job for not having fulfilled his duty in coping with leaf diseases in paddy fields caused by brown plant hopper Nilaparvata lugens, which has caused an epidemic in the southern delta. Agriculture experts follow up a rice field in An Giang Province
New life of Khmer people in Soc Trang :Khmer
people make up one thirds of Soc Trang inhabitants.
Looking for good candidates to be communists bases
on Economic – Social Development or Poverty
Alleviation Programmes. This duty now connect
closely with local movements so that Khmer people
can wholly progress and make synchronous changes in
every region. More and more Khmer people would like
to join in Communist Party. One of the villages that
has many Khmer people (80% population)
To many families in southern Vietnam, enjoying pia during the mid-autumn holidays has been a tradition since the early 19th century. Pia is a rich cake eaten with tea that is a specialty of the Kinh, Khmer and Chinese ethnic people living in the Mekong Delta region.
Soc Trang after 3 years of production development project - Program 135 phase II: incomplete happiness 
