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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.

A public relations training workshop for the Ha Long – Cat Ba alliance project was held in Hanoi on August 7-8.

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.

President Truong Tan Sang spoke up about the record floods that hit the northeastern coastal province of Quang Ninh, killing 17 and injuring another 30.

Over 55 billion VND (2.52 million USD) has been handed over to the northern province of Quang Ninh to support its recovery efforts after the heaviest flooding in 40 years.

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

Post-flood recovery efforts are ongoing in the north-eastern province of Quang Ninh which have so far cost an estimated 15 billion VND (714,000 USD).

Fifteen people died and another seven were missing in torrential rain that lasted for three days in northern Quang Ninh province.