Construction of the Lao National Assembly House, a gift of the Vietnamese Party, State and people to the neighbouring country, began in Vientiane on November 1.
Natural disaster management should be implemented in parallel with ensuring sustainable growth, and the UN SDG will not be completed without successful calamity prevention, APEC officials noted.
Within the framework of the 5th East Asian Seas Congress, the 2015 EAS Ministerial Forum took place in Da Nang on November 20 chaired by Vietnamese Minister of Natural Resources and Development.
Community-based disaster risk management was the focus of a workshop in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which opened in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh.
As many as 2,500 representatives from governmental and private agencies
and organisation responsible for disaster management in 63 countries in
the Asia-Pacific region are gathering in Bangkok for the sixth Asian
Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai told a workshop in Hanoi on
March 4 that the annual budget for climate change had reached trillions
of Vietnamese dong (hundreds of millions of USD).
Vietnam sought international experience in setting up a national forum
for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation at a
consultative meeting in Hanoi on June 17 to meet a roadmap deadline
in August.
Donors from the Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) began their three-day visit to
Vietnam on October 5 to look into the country’s preparedness to cope
with natural disasters.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
