Typhoon Matmo injures 14, leaving 1 missing Fourteen people have been reported injured and one person is missing after Typhoon Matmo churned through the central and south central provinces from Quảng Ngãi to Khánh Hoà on Wednesday.

Tropical depression turns into storm A tropical low-pressure system has been upgraded to a typhoon. Matmo, the fifth storm this year, was bearing down on the northern part of Trường Sa (Spratly) Archipelago at 7pm yesterday, about 500km east of the provinces of Bình Định and Ninh Thuận.

Heavy rains force students to stay home from school

Prolonged rains have flooded many streets in Vinh City and caused traffic chaos.

PM approves rice aid for flood-hit residents Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has announced 2,000 tonnes of rice from the national reserve as food aid for residents in the central provinces of Quảng Bình and Hà Tĩnh who suffered serious flooding.

Torrential rains leaves 6 dead, 10 missing

Torrential rains and flooding across central Việt Nam has killed six people while another 10 remain missing.

Time to work together: PM

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked central localities and natural disaster prevention and response forces as well as the whole community to focus on overcoming consequences of recent flooding, and ensuring safety for students as the new academic year has started.

Torrential rains claim four lives, eight missing

At least four people have been killed and eight others remain missing in central localities after torrential rains brought by a tropical depression have stricken the region over the past few days.  

Typhoon Bailu forms near East Sea A typhoon, internationally named Bailu, with winds of up to 100km per hour, formed near the East Sea on Friday morning.

Hasty planning plunges tourism spots under water It may be unusual for hilly areas and islands surrounded by ocean to grapple with flooding, but historic floods last week in two of the country's best-known paradises, Phú Quốc Island and the city of Đà Lạt, sent local people and tourists into a nightmare scenario.

Mekong Delta to face earlier, more severe salinity, droughts

Salinity and droughts will come earlier and be more severe in the 2019-20 dry season than the previous year in the Mekong Delta, according to Hoàng Phúc Lâm, Vice Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.