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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to provide 2,000 tonnes of rice from the national reserve as food aid to residents in the central provinces of Quang Binh and Ha Tinh who suffered from serious flooding.

The death toll of a monsoon landslide in Myanmar's Mon state rose to 69 as more bodies were recovered on August 16 afternoon, local officials said.

Myanmar troops were deployed to landslide-hit areas in southeastern Mon state on August 11 to support search and rescue efforts after the death toll from a recent landslide increased to 48.

The death toll from a landslide caused by monsoon rains struck Ye Pyar Kone village, Mon state of Myanmar, on August 9 rose to 22.

The death toll from the recent capsize of three ferries in the central Philippines has risen to 27 while six others went missing, said the disaster agency of Iloilo city on August 4.

At least eight people were killed and 60 more injured after two earthquakes shook Batanes islands, the north of the Philippines, early July 27, according to the Philippine Government.

Death toll caused by seasonal influenza, A (H1N1) pdm09, rose to 71 across Myanmar on July 24 as the figure was unveiled by the Public Health Department under the Ministry of Health and Sports on July 25.

Close to 8,000 Philippine police officers have recieved administrative punishments, of whom 2,000 were dismissed, for wrongdoings during raids where drug suspects were killed under President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown, a Philippine official said on July 18.

The total death toll of the seasonal influenza virus H1N1 in Myanmar has so far reached 29, said a statement from the local Health and Sports Ministry on July 4.

Cambodian authorities said on June 23 that the death toll in a seven-storey building collapse in the southern province of Preah Sihanouk rose to 18, while the number of injured people was 24.

The death toll from a boat sinking off East Java’s north coast in Indonesia on June 17 has risen to 18, local authorities said.

Child deaths due to drowning in Vietnam remain alarmingly high. Each year, drowning claims the lives of more than 2,000 children nationwide.

The National Committee for Traffic Safety and the Hanoi People’s Committee jointly launched a walking in the capital city on May 12 to call for actions against drunk driving.

At least nine people have been killed and 30 others injured after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Gutad town on the Philippines’ Luzon island, said Philippine authorities on April 23.

Traffic accidents took the lives of at least 297 people and injured over 2,800 others in Thailand from April 11-15 during the traditional New Year festival, Songkran.

The death toll from flash floods and landslides in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province has risen to 107 on March 20, local officials have said.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong on March 20 sent a message of sympathy to President of Mozambique Filipe Jacinto Nyusi over the great losses in human lives and property caused by Cyclone Idai.

The death toll from flash floods in Papua province, eastern Indonesia, rose to 89, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said on March 19.

As of 9pm on March 18, at least 80 people had been reported dead during floods in Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua, according to authorities.

Work to construct permanent houses for earthquake victims in Lombok, Indonesia’s West Nusa Tenggara province, is estimated to be completed this year, according to the country’s Vice President Jusuf Kalla.