Disasters and emergency response

Currently, many residential areas nationwide are threatened by the risk of natural disasters, even having to relocate to new places. Many resettlement areas have been established, somehow changing the inherent cultural structure of the village community and leading to the loss or interruption of indigenous cultural ...

Natural disasters cause annual losses to Vietnam of up to 1-1.5% of GDP. Therefore, effective  financial and insurance strategies have been identified as crucial tools for mitigating these impacts and ensuring swift recovery and reconstruction after disasters.This was the main focus at the workshop titled ...

Since 2021, a group of scientists from the Institute of Geology has been conducting a state-level project to develop a community-based early warning system for landslides, mud floods, and flash floods in key mountainous areas of northern Vietnam.By September 2024, the project completed a guide ...

The recent Typhoon Yagi and its aftermath caused severe devastation across many northern provinces and cities of Việt Nam. To mitigate and adapt to natural disasters such as storms and floods, it is crucial for localities to restore forest ecosystems and identify landslide-prone areas to ...

In light of climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme weather phenomena, relevant ministries must consider appropriate models for housing and educational facilities in disaster-prone areas to mitigate damage and enhance disaster response capabilities.Following the terrible losses from Typhoon Yagi, Tran Ngoc Chinh, President ...

Scientists at the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research today issued a warning bulletin that flooding due to heavy rain and high tides may occur in some localities in the Mekong Delta region in the coming days. At this time, farmers in the region are ...

Floods have directly affected agricultural production, industry, tourism, and transport as rising waters impact material infrastructure. Do Thi Ngoc, Deputy Director General of the General Statistics Office, recently granted an interview to the VietnamPlus on the topic.To cope with the situation, ensuring social security and ...

Viet Nam is ranked second among the top four countries in the world in natural disaster preparedness.According to a global survey conducted by global analytics firm Gallup which has been released recently, 83 percent of households in Viet Nam said they had plans in response ...

The Airborne Infection Defence Platform (AIDP) was officially launched on August 8 to strengthen ASEAN countries’ tuberculosis (TB) response, and health care system and pandemic preparedness to address the growing issue of airborne respiratory infections. The initiative was inaugurated at a side event of the ...

A recent research paper published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution reported that the frequency at which extreme fires are occurring around the world has more than doubled over the past two decades, mainly due to human-caused climate change.Using satellite records, scientists studied ...