Heavy rains have hindered the rescue operations after the eruption of Mount Semeru left at least 14 dead and nine others missing, the spokesperson of Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency, Abdul Muhari said on December 5.
A group of Vietnamese students in China have presented over 4,000 notebooks, financial aid to schools and nearly 400 aid packages to help students in the three flood-hit provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue.
Specialised equipment and sniffer dogs have been mobilised to search victims of the landslide in Nam Tra My district’s Tra Leng commune, the central province of Quang Nam.
Over the past days, great efforts have been made to deal with consequences of torrential rains and floods in line with instructions of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
Four people were killed and 35 others went missing when two vessels sank in Ayeyarwady river in Magway region, central Myanmar, according to the Myanmar Information Ministry.
The Ministry of National Defence has so far discovered and reburied more than 900,000 sets of remains of martyrs at over 3,000 cemeteries across the country, heard a press conference in Hanoi on July 9.
The trade union of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on July 2 presented 500 schoolbags that can be used as lifebuoys to local students in flood-prone areas.
Vietnam is expected to master the remote sensing satellite manufacturing technology under the national remote sensing development strategy to 2030 with a vision towards 2040, recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security and Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs have signed a document on extending the agreement on bilateral cooperation in the field of cross-border crime prevention and control.
Vietnamese and Philippine naval forces discussed search and rescue operations, maritime security, regional disaster warning and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) during their fourth personnel exchange on November 10 on Song Tu Dong (Northeast Cay).
The Thai military are ready to assist Laos in search and rescue operations for villagers reportedly missing due to the current flooding in southern Laos.
The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s SK Engineering and Construction (SK E&C), one of the builders of the Xepian Xe-Namnoy hydropower dam of Laos, said on July 24 that it has formed a crisis management team to respond to the dam collapse.
Thai media, reporting on the rescue mission of 12 young footballers and their assistant coach who were trapped in a flooded cave in Chiang Rai, have been urged to be discreet, respect the privacy of people concerned and to present reports constructively.
A keel laying ceremony was held on May 24 in the northeastern port city of Hai Phong to mark the building of Vietnam’s first submarine search and rescue ship.
In the face of abnormal and serious flooding over the past few days, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc cancelled a scheduled meeting with voters in Hai Phong City to travel to the northern province of Ninh Binh for a check of local dykes on October 12.
People who need emergency rescue services from any part of the country will be able to phone 112 for help once a recently-approved emergency communications project is completed.
Hanoi will purchase helicopters for firefighting and other rescue
operations at a relevant time, said an officer from the Hanoi Police for
Fire Prevention and Fighting (PFPF).
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