Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has approved a programme to update disaster risk and warning mapping, especially for natural disasters resulting from storms, flash floods, floods, landslides, droughts, and saline intrusion.
Over 1400 students in Binh Dong secondary school in Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC) in Viet Nam practiced an emergency evacuation today to be ready for natural disasters such as tsunamis, floods and cyclones. Preparing for emergencies has become increasingly important as the country is experiencing more extreme weather.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is presiding over a national conference on disaster prevention and control on March 29, as over recent years, natural calamities ar becoming increasingly severe and complicated.
The Typhoon Committee (TC) convened its 50th session in Hanoi on February 28 to kick start the activities in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the TC’s establishment.
Vietnam experienced unprecedentedly severe natural disasters in 2017, resulting in 386 people dead and missing and some VND 60 trillion (US$2.6 billion) worth of damage
A tropical pressure in the East Sea has developed into a storm, and is set to be the first storm to hit Vietnam this year.
An IT engineer in central Vietnam is demonstrating the value of hydroculture as an effective way to build climate change resilience in the storm-prone region.
Storm Damrey landed in central localities in early November, causing serious flooding and damage. At present, people and forces are actively overcoming the consequences.
UNICEF is deploying experts to join the team led by the National and Provincial Disaster Management Authority to assess the situation of children in remote communes in Khanh Hoa and Phu Yen provinces of Viet Nam where Typhoon Damrey made a deadly landfall on November 4th 2017.