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Rice export prices in Thailand rose sharply this week on worries that the country’s worst drought in about a decade could reduce supply.

Prolonged hot and dry weather has affected more than 1,200ha of rice and other crops in the central province of Nghe An’s Do Luong district, a local newspaper reported.

Forest fires broke out in several locations in the central province of Ha Tinh on June 30, according to local authorities.

Prolonged dry weather has significantly increased forest fire risk in the southeast region, authorised agencies report.

The Malaysian Ministry of Education has ordered additional 119 schools in the states of Pahang and Kelantan to close on April 20-21 due to an extreme heat wave.

Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) is threatened to be cut by 0.6 to 0.8 percent in 2016 due to severe drought.

Prolonged dry weather has put many parts of Vietnam at a risk of forest fires, the Forest Protection Department warned.

Hundreds of hectares of forests in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, which were blanketed under ice and snow in the strongest cold spell in years in late January, are now at high fire.

Prolonged dry weather has raised the risk of forest fires to extremely high levels across the country, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Department for Forest Protection

A forest fire that broke out in Hoang Lien National Park in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai was finally put out early morning February 11, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year (Tet).