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The office of the Steering Committee for Natural Disasters Prevention and Control said torrential rain raged through many northern provinces on May 24.

Vietnam’s representative has affirmed that the country’s policies are always centred on people at a UN Summit.

Vietnam needs to be well-prepared to cope with natural disasters, which have become more fierce and unpredictable in recent years, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has requested ministries and localities to proactively cope with natural disasters to mitigate human and property losses.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged Cabinet members to show greater resolve in the management work against a background of socio-economic difficulties.

Hail storms have killed one and injured two people in Ha Giang province on April 19, according to the provincial steering committee on natural disasters.

The Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control must continuously direct ministries, sectors and localities to implement measures to cope with drought and salinity.

The Prime Minister has approved a grant of over 1,000 tonnes of rice from the national reserves to support localities during Lunar New Year 2016.

Multifunctional facilities serving as shelter from natural disasters were inaugurated in the south central coast province of Ninh Thuan on January 20.

The PM has decided to allocate 130 billion VND (5.72 million VND) sourced from the 2015 State budget to help ten provinces affected by storms and floods repair their damaged essential infrastructure.

ASEAN is particularly concerned about climate change which has been causing substantial damage to the region.

Seawater has been progressively encroaching on land in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, causing severe landslides in coastal areas.

Vietnam is home to 53 ethnic minority groups with a population of nearly 14 million, who mainly live in remote mountainous, midland and coastal areas that are vulnerable to natural disasters.

ASEAN and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to fostering collaboration at the 9th Meeting of the ASEAN-Japan Joint Cooperation (JCC) held on November 5 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) launched a joint project on modernising the disaster forecasting and warning system for Vietnam’s Northeast region at a conference on October 28.

Natural disasters could consume between 3 and 5 percent of Vietnam’s gross domestic product by 2030, according to the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) report from the UN.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on September 25 announced it will double annual climate financing to 6 billion USD by 2020 to help countries in the Asian-Pacific region cope with climate change.

Community-based disaster risk management was the focus of a workshop in the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which opened in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh.

The municipal and provincial Steering Committees for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control have been urged to closely monitor the development of calamities such as flood, flashflood, and landslide.

Vietnam will launch a new environment and natural resource monitoring network which is equal to Southeast Asian standards in the coming years to better prevent and control natural disasters.