As of May 25 morning, flash floods triggered by downpours had claimed five lives, including two in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang, and one each in Hoa Binh, Dien Bien and Quang Ngai.
A new cold spell hit north Vietnam January 17, causing rains in many parts of the region, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
A transport project that build roads to connect northern mountainous provinces began with a groundbreaking ceremony held in Lai Chau, one of the localities involved, on December 27.
Tran Tuan Anh, Politburo member and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, on June 8 urged northern midland and mountainous provinces to turn their disadvantages into advantages to serve development.
Macca Nutrition Vietnam JSC will provide 95,000 boxes of milk worth 1 billion VND (43,000 USD) for more than 11,800 disadvantaged children in 15 provinces across the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung, head of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, has asked northern mountainous provinces and certain ministries to take measures to deal with floods and their consequences.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC) Central Committee said on April 24 that it has decided to offer a relief package worth over 270 million VND (11,700 USD) in cash and kind to victims affected by recent hailstorms in the northern mountainous provinces of Dien Bien, Lao Cai and Lai Chau.
Heavy showers and hail have struck northern Vietnam and resulted in at least five fatalities and estimated economic losses of 63 billion VND (2.68 million USD).
With the support from 45 partners belonging to various fields, the Gender-Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) programme is hoped to help about 40,000 women to raise income.
Nearly 30 percent of the communes in the northern mountainous provinces will be recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of 2019, one year ahead of the target assigned by the Prime Minister, an official has said.
Investment fund VinaCapital is presenting a batch of medical equipment worth 2.3 billion VND (100,000 USD) to the general hospitals of the northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang and Bac Kan.
As many as 61 patients from the central region and the Central Highlands got free surgical operations to mend their congenital deformities from June 17-28 at the Hue Central Hospital.
Downpour and floods since June 23 left one person dead and three others missing in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau as of 6am of June 25, said the Office of the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
The Ministry of Finance and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on March 5 signed a loan worth over 188 million USD for a transport connectivity project in northern mountainous provinces.
In an attempt to improve health for local residents, more than 400,000 household toilets and more than 235,000 water supply works have been set up in a total of 21 mountainous provinces of northern, Central Highlands and south-central regions in the past two years.
From a small-scale economy and disaster-prone province, Phu Tho has grown to become the second most developed province in the northern midland and mountainous region after implementing the local 18th Party Congress’ resolution for only half of the 2015-2020 tenure.
Disadvantaged students in 10 northern mountainous localities received “Vietnamese Seeds Fund” scholarships from Nhan dan (People’s) Newspaper on September 19.
Floods and landslides in northern mountainous and central provinces have killed 15 people and left four missing, along with heavy losses in property, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
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