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One person was killed in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang while 14 others were injured in Ha Giang and Yen Bai provinces as of 16:00 on March 3, according to the central steering committee for natural disaster prevention.

The northern province of Yen Bai counted six people injured by whirlwinds and hails that hit it in the afternoon of March 2.

At least one person was killed and 14 others injured after hail and thunderstorms hit the northern moutainous provinces on March 2 night.

Torrential rains caused flooding in dozens of areas surrounding Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta on February 25.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has approved a national plan to respond to oil spills.

A delegation of the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had a working visit to Japan from November 30 – December 4 to learn the host country’s experiences in coping with super Typhoon Hagibis, especially in the dyke management.

The number of fatalities due to Typhoon Kammuri in the Philippines has risen to 10, the country’s natural disaster prevention agencies said on December 4.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for more efforts from forces tasked with coping with natural disaster and rescue work to better perform their duty in the coming time.

Legislators will further debate the draft law amending and supplementing some articles of the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, and the Law on Dykes at a plenary session in Hanoi on November 22.

Thanh Hoa in the central region expects to become an industrialised province by 2030, with synchronous, upgraded socio-economic infrastructure.

The 21st working day of the 14th National Assembly’s ongoing eighth session took place in Hanoi on November 18 under the chair of NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

National Assembly deputies will work in groups to discuss two draft laws in the morning of November 18.

A 5.9-magnitude aftershock shook Indonesia’s North Maluku province on November 15 after a strong quake hit the area in theearly morning of the same day.

Two persons died while preparing for storm Nakri and one went missing due to the storm as of 17:00 on November 12, according to the office of the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Legislators adopted a resolution on the socio-economic development plan for 2020 on November 11 – the 16th working day of the 14th National Assembly’s eighth sitting.

National Assembly deputies are scheduled to adopt a resolution on the socio-economic development plan for 2020 on November 11 as part of their ongoing eighth session.

The National Forecast-based Financing (FbF) Dialogue Platform was held in Hanoi on November 4 by the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRC), German Red Cross and UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

The fifth edition of the Charity Fun Run took place in the northern province of Hung Yen on November 3 with the participation of nearly 8,000 runners.

Storm Matmo, which swept through the south central coast on October 30, has left one unaccounted for and 14 injured, all in Quang Ngai province, as of 8:00 am on November 1.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to allocate rice from national reserve for the south central province of Binh Dinh to help ease difficulties faced by local residents in natural disaster-hit areas.