Two foreign women, a 35-year-old British and a 28-year-old South African national, were found by search and rescue forces after they became lost in the forest while climbing the Langbiang mountain in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
Japanese search and rescue forces have found the body of a Vietnamese trainee who went missing in a mudslide triggered by Typhoon Haishen, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka said on September 18.
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.
Representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea (RoK) came to Tongmyeong city to meet the families of six Vietnamese fishermen who are missing following a boat fire off the coast of country.
A Filippino sailor, who was hit by a stroke, was brought to shore by a ship of the Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre for Region III on August 4 to receive medical attention.
Vietnam’s search and rescue forces will maintain round-the-clock duty so as to give timely response to natural disasters, particularly when the flood and storm season is coming.
Four people have gone missing after being swept away by flash floods in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on early June 24, according to the provincial Steering Committee for Disaster Response, Search and Rescue.
Rescue forces on July 1 morning moved deeper in Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped for nearly a week.
Myanmar’s rescue forces on June 11 found 26 bodies of victims from the missing military plane, which is believed to have crashed last week in the Andaman Sea with 122 people aboard.
Deputy Minister of National Defence Phan Van Giang received a delegation of the Command of Thai Royal Air force led by Commander-in-Chief Jolm Rungswang in Hanoi on January 10.
Search and rescue forces found the two black boxes of the missing rescue aircraft CASA 212 at 26 nautical miles south-southeast of Bach Long Vi Island of northern Hai Phong city on June 27.
Rescue forces of the Defence Ministry and other units on June 23 determined the position of the missing rescue aircraft CASA 212 at a depth of between 50-60 metres under the sea level.
Republic of Korean rescue forces have entered the fourth day scouring the country’s waters for six Vietnamese sailors who remained missing after their fishing boat was found capsized on March 3.
The National Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control issued a dispatch on September 13 directing localities and ministries to deploy plans in response to a tropical low pressure.
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