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Vietnam’s forest coverage reached 42.01 percent in 2021, up 0.11 percent from a year earlier, according to the Forest Protection Department.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 17 sent a message of sympathy to his Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio over a fire at a clinic in Osaka.

The number of deaths from the eruption of Mount Semeru volcano in Indonesia rose to 34, according to the country’s disaster agency latest report on December 7.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a message of condolences to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and North Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski over great human losses in a fire on November 22 and a bus crash on November 23.

Ten people were evacuated from the trade office of Vietnam in the centre of Moscow due to a fire on the second floor of a three-storey building, with no one injured.

ASEAN's Envoy to Myanmar Erywan Yusof has called for a four-month cease-fire by all sides in the country to enable the smooth delivery of the first batch of humanitarian assistance to the southeast Asian nation, which is slated early as mid-September.

The contest "Tank advance" - the most awaited part of any Army Games competition - will take place in a few days at the Alabino training ground on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia.

Through ups and downs of the world over the past more than five decades, the role and mettle of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been reinforced and sharpened, making the bloc more completed and become stronger, Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has stressed in an article on the occasion of the association’s 54th founding anniversary (August 8, 1967-2021).

A send-off ceremony was held on July 26 for Vietnam’s artillery team who set to leave for Kazakhstan next week for the 2021 International Army Games.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck about 88 km west of Luwuk, Indonesia, said the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) on July 26.

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi island on July 10 morning, the United States Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.

A delegation of the Department of Military Training under the General Staff and the Artillery Arms of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) on June 21 visited the artillery team, which is under training in Vinh Phuc northern province for the 2021 International Army Games.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on June 16, but did not potentially trigger a tsunami, the Indonesian meteorology and geophysics agency said.

Vietnam resolutely opposes to and requests Taiwan (China) to stop live-fire drills in the waters around Ba Binh island of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and not to repeat the action in the future, spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang has said.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan has asked municipal and provincial People’s Committees to take drastic measures to ensure forest fire prevention amid extremely hot weather.

A fire-lighting ritual was held for making a up-to-300-kg bronze drum by the Vietnam Association of Historical Sciences (VAHS) in Dong Don district, the north-central province of Thanh Hoa on April 18.

At least six people were reported dead after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Java island in Indonesia on April 10.

More than 44,500 ha of forest in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau is at high risk of catching fire due to a prolonged hot spell and drought, according to the forest ranger division under the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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.

Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano sent a cloud of hot ash as high as 3km (1.86 miles) on March 2, in its first big eruption since August last year.