The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has ordered localities in the central region to focus on repairing the damage caused by floods that hit the area last week.
Authorities in southern provinces and cities are taking necessary measures to prevent diseases in poultry and transmission to humans.
The heavy flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains in central provinces have left at least two people dead.
Two people were killed and three others were reported missing in the central region by recent flooding as of December 10, according to the Office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
The VAAC-US.CDC Project has provided funding worth 71.06 billion VND (3.03 million USD) for HIV/AIDS prevention programmes in Thanh Hoa since August 2013, accounting for 71 percent of the central province’s total budget for the work.
Residents of the Thousand Islands off Jakarta’s coast are battling waves of trash, with an estimated 40 tonnes of rubbish collected daily over the past week.
Three people were shot dead by insurgents in Thailand's southern Songkhla province.
Ho Chi Minh City will enforce regulations on garbage sorting on November 24, with fine of up to 20 million VND (over 850 USD) to be imposed on those who fail to comply with the rules.
The Investigation Police Agency of Hoa Binh Police Department on November 20 launched legal proceedings against director of Thien Son Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company Do Anh Tuan for “lacking responsibility causing serious consequences”.
Six people were killed and 15 houses were burned to the ground after an oil-carrying tanker truck crashed and burst into flames on National Highway 13 in the southern province of Binh Phuoc at about 4 a.m on November 22.
A sperm whale has been found dead in Indonesia with 6kg of plastic rubbish, including 115 cups and 25 bags, in its stomach, raising concerns among environmentalists and throwing the spotlight on the country’s waste problem, the AFP news agency reported on November 21.
The standing board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee has extended sympathy along with aid in cash to victims of floods in the south central provinces of Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Phu Yen.
Torrential downpour caused by a tropical depression killed 12 people and injured 11 others in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, while five people went missing as of 4pm on November 18.
Noi Buon Chien Tranh (The Sorrow of War), the well-known novel by Bao Ninh, has once again received a regional literary award in the Republic of Korea.
Rescue forces have found the body of the last victim in the illegal gold mine accident on November 4 in the northern province of Hoa Binh.
Health centres in Ho Chi Minh City are working to verify how many children aged one to five have not been immunised against measles for a national campaign to provide free two-in-one vaccines against measles and rubella starting this month.
Representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy and the Management Committee of Vietnamese Workers in the Republic of Korea, and the Employment Permit System (EPS) office on November 12 visited two Vietnamese labourers on November 12 who had been seriously injured in the explosion of the fluoropolymer factory in Wonju city on November 10.
Two Vietnamese workers were killed and two others injured when a flouropolymer factory exploded in the Republic of Korea’s Eastern city of Wonju on November 10.
