Central provinces have made plans and prepared facilities to evacuate nearly 7,700 households if needed.

A female teacher and a soldier from the Chàm Islands, 20km off the coast of Hội An, were safely brought to shore for medical treatment amid rough seas due to Storm Goni on Wednesday night.

Storm Goni could cause torrential rains, whirlwinds and gusts in coastal areas and further inland, posing a high risk for vessels and coastal aquaculture farms, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The United Nations Resident Coordinator and the Country Director of Save the Children on behalf of the Disaster Management Group have issued the 2020 Việt Nam flood response plan to raise US$40 million to provide assistance for 177,000 of the most vulnerable flood-affected people hard hit in the central region.

Since 2016, all small hydropower plant projects related to natural forest land have not been considered for approval, Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh said at a Government cabinet meeting on Monday amid heated public debate about the impact of small hydropower plant construction on flooding and landslides.

The Dutch Government will provide an aid package worth EUR 2 million (US$2.34 million) for Vietnamese flood victims, Dutch Ambassador to Việt Nam Elsbeth Akkerman said late Wednesday.

Lê Quý Đôn High School in HCM City on Tuesday began using 3D technology to teach mathematics for 11th grade classes.

It has been tough for micro and small-sized businesses to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic and Trường Foods, a fermented pork company owned by a young female entrepreneur in Hà Nội, is no exception. 

Younger men in urban areas tend to be more open to negotiating the sharing of housework, to their spouses working outside the home and to making shared large purchase decisions with their partners, a new report on men’s views on gender equality and social expectations shows.