Natural disasters in Vietnam have been increasing in both frequency and intensity. Typhoon No.3 in 2024 (Yagi), along with severe floods, inundation and landslides in 2025, caused significant human and material losses. This underscores the need for targeted and sustainable investments in disaster risk reduction and early warning, particularly for children and vulnerable communities.
Rebecca Leslie Hemara, Deputy Head of Mission of New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam, affirmed that New Zealand and its embassy in Vietnam remain committed to supporting and accompanying local communities affected by natural disasters, including storms and floods, across Vietnam and in Lang Son in particular.
UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany reaffirmed UNESCO’s commitment to standing alongside the Government and people of Vietnam in safeguarding heritage, ensuring the continuity of education, and supporting recovery efforts grounded in knowledge, solidarity and sustainability, with a view to turning this hardship into opportunities to build safer and better prepared communities.
In response to the Quang Trung Campaign, launched last year by the Prime Minister to rebuild and repair homes for households affected by natural disasters, more than 30 officers and soldiers in the central province of Quang Ngai, undeterred by sun or rain, worked tirelessly to complete the final stages of construction, ensuring residents would have safe and stable homes.
Quang Trung Campaign is not merely a task, but a political responsibility and a heartfelt commitment to the people. The guiding principle is to act as swiftly and decisively as possible, ensuring no family is left without shelter, especially in the days leading up to Tet, said Major General Nguyen Thanh Tuan, Director of the Hue Department of Public Security.
Home rebuilding must be completed on January 10, and no later than January 12, the dispatch said, saying under no circumstances, should progress be delayed.
According to reports, the force built 419 new houses for families whose homes had collapsed, while repairing infrastructure in Ha Tinh, Hue, Da Nang, Quang Ngai, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Khanh Hoa and Lam Dong.
As science and technology advance rapidly, the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre was asked to accelerate the digitisation of documents, drawings, images and artefacts, build a unified database of monuments, and apply 3D, VR and AR technologies in research, exhibitions, and heritage interpretation.
Despite numerous difficulties in 2025, Vietnam’s agricultural sector closed the year with export earnings of 70.9 billion USD, laying an optimistic foundation for a 74 billion USD export target in 2026. The information was announced at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment’s first regular press briefing of the year, held in Hanoi on January 6.
More than 105,000 borrowers in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra provinces have been impacted by severe flooding, much of it linked to extreme weather events.
In 2025, Vietnam faced severe pressures from natural disasters alongside a complex global and regional environment, population ageing, and rising risks from communicable and non-communicable diseases. These challenges placed heavy demands on the health sector, while domestic efforts to streamline the state apparatus and implement a two-tier local government system created both pressure and impetus for innovation and more effective public service delivery.
With the determination that “work does not stop even when it rains,” and with the goal of ensuring all affected families have safe housing before the Lunar New Year (Tet) of 2026, the entire army has so far constructed, repaired, and handed over nearly 400 houses, with absolute safety guaranteed.
After one month of implementing the “Quang Trung Campaign,” the central city of Da Nang has completed repairs of all houses damaged by natural disasters, demonstrating strong determination and rapid action.
The PM called on localities, particularly Dak Lak and Gia Lai, to build on the momentum and mobilise the entire political system, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organisations, enterprises and the public, especially forces of the police, military, militia and youth unions, to strive to complete the entire campaign by January 15, 2026, as a practical achievement to welcome the 14th National Party Congress.
Despite mounting global uncertainties and increasingly severe climate impacts, Vietnam’s agriculture and environment sector maintained stable growth in 2025, reinforcing its role as a key pillar of the economy while advancing green transformation and strengthening resilience to natural disasters, said Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang.
The Government leader said that any difficulties arising during the implementation, including funding shortfalls and shortages of construction materials, labour or equipment, must be reported promptly to the PM for resolution, underlining that there is no justification for further delays in rebuilding or repairing homes for people affected by natural disasters.
As of the end of last month, the East Sea had seen 15 typhoons and six tropical depressions, making it the year with the highest number of typhoons and tropical depressions on record, surpassing the previous record of 20 in 2017.
As disaster-related losses continue to rise, authorities in the affected provinces have decided to extend the state of emergency to ensure resources and legal mechanisms for response efforts. West Sumatra extended it to December 22, North Sumatra to December 24, and Aceh to December 25.
The “Quang Trung Campaign” to rapidly repair and rebuild houses for affected families in central provinces is seen as a catalyst for faster and more sustainable recovery, extending beyond housing restoration to reinforcing essential infrastructure, enhancing community resilience, and strengthening public trust in the Party and Government.
The central province of Dak Lak is mobilising all resources to swiftly rebuild and repair houses damaged by Storm Kalmaegi (Storm No. 13) and the historic floods in November, under the “Quang Trung Campaign” directed by the Prime Minister.