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Officials from the Party, State, Government, and National Assembly visited poor people ahead the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the biggest holiday in Vietnam.

About 10,000 families in the central province of Quang Tri are in a shortage of water for daily use due to a prolonged drought, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The south-east economic zone in the central province of Quang Tri has been drawing a large number of domestic and foreign investors, with capital amounting to tens of trillions of dong.

More than 24,000 people in Ca Mau province are expected to benefit from a community-based disaster risk reduction project in vulnerable areas in the Mekong Delta, heard a workshop on January 29.

Economic and industrial zones in the central province of Quang Tri boast huge potential for attracting domestic and foreign investors. The attraction of investment in these fields is one of the locality’s top priorities.

The central coastal province of Thua Thien Hue will spend more than 300 billion VND (million USD) to build a sea dyke along the coast from Thuan An to Tu Hien which is threatened by serious erosion.

The central province of Quang Tri is pushing efforts to preserve and restore marine resources in the Con Co Island Marine Reserve.

It has been 2 years since the striking marine environmental incident in central provinces, including Quang Tri, late April 2016. Thanks to timely policies and measures from local authorities, fishing

Nearly two years after the 2016 Formosa toxic spill, fishermen in the coastal province of Quang Tri are slowly returning to the sea or finding alternative livelihoods.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is making a beeline for sustainable poverty reduction, aiming to cut the rate of impoverished households in the locality by 2.5 percent by the end of this year.

The total output of farmed and off-shore caught fish of the central province of Thua Thien-Hue reached 30,388 tonnes in the last seven months, showing a year-on-year increase of 18.72 percent.

Compensation for residents affected by last year’s marine environmental incident in the four central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue has been mostly completed.

The central province of Quang Tri is working to complete the distribution of a compensation batch for local victims of last year’s marine environment incident within June.

Coastal communes in the south central province of Quang Ngai are facing alarming environmental pollution as a result of the waste discharged from residential areas, industrial production and tourism activities.

The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) announced on April 24 that it had sent a document guiding the provision of financial aid for those who supplied tourism services and were affected by the marine environment incident in the central province of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue.

Save the Children in Vietnam has funded a project on building capacity to cope with natural disasters and enhance access to clean water and hygiene in coastal areas in Tien Giang province.

Tien Giang plans to invest 62 million USD in restructuring agricultural production in the province’s eastern part, part of efforts to reduce damage caused by drought and saline intrusion.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) responded to the World Wetlands Day with a ceremony in northern Thai Binh province on February 5, stressing the role of wetlands in disaster risk reduction.

The central province of Quang Tri on November 30 finished phase one of distributing Formosa Ha Tinh’s compensation to coastal residents for the mass fish deaths the company caused earlier this year.

Enhancing climate change resilience and mitigating the risks of natural disasters to improve rural livelihoods in the delta and coastal areas were the outcomes of a US-funded project.