In his life, President Ho Chi Minh always emphasised the role of the people, considering the people as the foundation and the source of strength of the Vietnam People's Army.
Students whose families are affected by the historic flood in Hue, Quang Tri, Quang Binh, and Ha Tinh provinces were awarded free lunch and dinner meal coupons for one month
A short documentary on how to unleash the potential of sustainable tourism of Quang Nam province’s Thu Bon river after the historic flood in 2000 has brought a special prize to two secondary school students in the “School Ambassador in Disaster Prevention and Climate Change Adaptation” Competition 2019.
Authorities of the central Hue city have announced plans to evacuate 4,200 families out of the citadel walls and buildings in an attempt to stop illegal lodging on relics.
Many activities have been organised nationwide to support disadvantaged people and policy beneficiaries on the threshold of the upcoming lunar New Year (Tet) holidays which fall in early February.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Tran Thanh Man has visited and presented Tet gifts to disadvantaged people and policy beneficiaries in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.
The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has mobilised over 4,000 people, including army soldiers, police, militias and local residents, in search for missing people after a severe flash flood swept through the province on October 11.
The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and its Yen Bai chapter held a requiem on August 15 for heroes and martyrs and for the victims of the recent historic flood.
An historic flood, similar to that battered the central region with 2,000mm of rain in 1999, is predicted to hit Vietnam in the second half of this year after the most severe drought in 100 years.
Work on a 66.6 billion VND (319,000 USD) dam has started in the central
coastal province of Quang Ngai with the view to preventing salinity
intrusion and keeping fresh water for about 520 hectares of farming land
in Mo Duc district.
Two unexploded wartime bombs, each weighing more than 200 kg, were
safely disabled at Thanh commune, Huong Hoa district, the central
province of Quang Tri on September 23.
Hanoi's Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control on
August 9 opened Thanh Liet Floodgate to discharge water from Nhue River
into To Lich River, to ease rising flood waters and prevent flooding in
the nation's capital.
An international seminar to seek ways to cope with natural disasters in
the context of climate change in Asian cities took place in Quy Nhon
city, the central province of Binh Dinh on May 9.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
