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Three forests in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap are facing the highest level of fire risk, the fifth, according to its Forest Protection Sub-department.

Three families of Vietnamese-Cambodians, whose houses were burnt down in a blaze in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district last year have received new houses.

Trading activities at the Vietnamese Dong Xuan Centre in eastern Berlin, Germany, resumed on July 5 morning after a fire that burnt down a warehouse was put out.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has asked the Ministry of Public Security and Hanoi’s People’s Committee to instruct relevant agencies to clarify the cause of the blaze that ravaged workshops in Hanoi and killed eight people on the morning of April 12.

Eight people were killed or went missing in a blaze in Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi, in the early hours on April 12, according to initial reports.

According to information from the Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand, no Vietnamese citizens have been found to have been affected by the April 10 blaze at Central World – Thailand’s biggest shopping complex in Bangkok, said spokesperson of the foreign ministry Le Thi Thu Hang.

Prolonged heat waves without rains have left 58,000 hectares of special-use and protective forests in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh at high risk of catching fires.

Vietnamese Cambodian people in Russey Keo district in Phnom Penh capital who were affected by a fire on July 10 have gradually returned to normal life.

On July 13, financial aid and relief supplies from Vietnamese State agencies continued to reach those Cambodian and Vietnamese-Cambodian families recently affected by the blaze in Phnom Penh.

Vietnamese traders at a trade centre in Russia’s Kazan city may lose about 31 million rubles (about 0.5 million USD) to a recent blaze there, according to the Vietnamese Association in Kazan.

No Vietnamese workers have been found injured or dead in a massive fire that broke out at a factory’s dormitory in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan city, Taiwan (China) around 9:00 pm on April 29.

As many as 13 people died and 28 others were injured when a blaze burned an apartment complex at No. 1648 Vo Van Kiet street, District 8 of Ho Chi Minh City in early morning of March 23, reported local authorities.

Firefighters successfully stamped out the blaze of a tanker at Port K99 in in Hai An district, the northern port city of Hai Phong on early March 11 after eight hours of battling.

Philippine authorities have confirmed that all 37 missing victims in a blaze at a shopping centre in a southern city on December 23 were dead.

As many as 37 people were believed to be killed in a fire that broke out at a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao on December 23.

Firefighters on night of March 23 were still battling a huge fire that broke out before at a Taiwanese garment factory in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

A huge fire blazed in a house in Ho Chi Minh City in early morning on December 16, killing six people, including a five-member family, and injuring five others.

Fire broke out at the Little Saigon Market of Vietnamese expats in Footscray, west Melbourne, Australia, on early December 13, leaving no casualty but damaging assets valued at about 12 million AUD.

A blaze at a karaoke bar in Tran Thai Tong Strêt, Cau Giay district in Hanoi broke out on November 1, killing at least 13.

At least 13 people have been killed after a fire broke out at a karaoke venue on November 1 afternoon and tore through four neighbouring buildings in Hanoi’s Cau Giay district.