The Party Committee of the northern province of Quang Ninh set up a steering committee to tackle flood consequences from floods that caused severe damage in the locality.
The northern province of Quang Ninh welcomed over 5.7 million tourists in the first seven months of 2015, up nine percent compared to the same period last year.
Vietinbank donated five ambulances and nearly 19 billion VND (871,000 USD) on August 10 to northern Quang Ninh province, which recently suffered heavy rainfall.
Leaders of the Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited pledged to ensure sufficient coal for electricity production despite the disruption caused by flooding recently.
Cuban leader Raul Castro Ruz has conveyed his sympathies to Vietnamese leaders over the great losses of lives and property caused by recent rain-triggered floods in Quang Ninh province.
Authorities in Quang Ninh province and the National Coal and Mineral Industries Group should devise measures to adapt to increasingly complicated weather patterns, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.
The ongoing downpour over the last week has claimed a total of 34 lives and caused economic losses of thousands of billions of Vietnamese dong in northern mountainous provinces.
The Vietnam National Coal – Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) is planning a series of measures to address the impacts of the worst rainstorm and flood in four decades in Quang Ninh povince.
Tourism agencies in HCM City and the northern province of Quang Ninh are working closely to develop tours between the two localities, with a promise to launch new tourism products.
Moderate-to-heavy rains continued in the northern region from the evening of July 30 through the morning of July 31 and are forecast to last through August 3.
The costs of flood damage following the heaviest rains in four decades in northern coastal Quang Ninh province have exceeded 1 trillion VND (46 million USD), local authorities said on July 30.
As many as 280 tourists out of some 1,500 those stranded in Co To Island were brought back to the mainland on July 30, reported Chairman of the People's Committee of Co To Island District Hoang Ba Nam