Việt Nam grappled with nearly 4,000 disasters and incidents in 2019, increasing 57.9 per cent compared to the previous year.
The public security ministry on Tuesday shed light on the circumstances surrounding the violent confrontation in Đồng Tâm Commune on the outskirts of Hà Nội that left three police officers and one protester dead in the early morning of January 9.
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia's largest "megablaze" under control on Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires.