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Vietnam's Kien Giang province to get improved roads

Vietnam is building around 1,400km of roads in the country’s southern coastal province of Kien Giang over the next several years. The government said that 380km will be finished by year’s end, adding to the province’s more than 7,000km of roads. The total cost for the 1,400km of roads will be around be nearly US$65 million. Kiên Giang is in the Mekong Delta region, one of the country’s hottest areas and also a major agricultural district. Just over 20% of its 1.6 million people live urban areas. The p
August 19, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Vietnam is building around 1,400km of roads in the country’s southern coastal province of Kien Giang over the next several years.

The government said that 380km will be finished by year’s end, adding to the province’s more than 7,000km of roads. The total cost for the 1,400km of roads will be around be nearly US$65 million.

Kiên Giang is in the Mekong Delta region, one of the country’s hottest areas and also a major agricultural district. Just over 20% of its 1.6 million people live urban areas. The province gets almost 2m of rainfall annually and the dry season last barely three months. Average annual temperature is just under 28°C.

Vietnam also recently reported a drop in road traffic crashes in the period January-April compared with the same period in 2015. According to Vietnam’s National Traffic Safety Committee, the number of road crashes fell by 12.6% to 6,620 during this period. Meanwhile, the traffic police revoked around 109,000 driving licenses and collected some US$38.05 million in fines.

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