The building in the central province of Hà Tĩnh has become home to bovine civil servants.

A wall painting project called “Fresco for the Future” is restoring the appearance of Cảnh Dương fishing village in the north-central province of Quảng Bình province after the devastation of storm Doksuri last September.

The Quảng Đông Commune People’s Committee has successfully removed more than 100cu.m of soil and water contaminated with sodium hydroxide from the 19/5 Village.

Trần Quang Hoài, head of the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, talks to the newspaper Hải quan (Customs) on what he said was abnormal weather in Việt Nam last year.

Việt Nam experienced unprecedentedly severe natural disasters in 2017, resulting in 386 people dead and missing and some VNĐ60,000 billion (US$2.6 billion) worth of damages.

Unsustainable livelihoods, including the chopping down of protective forests for agricultural production and building houses near streams and rivers, have increased risks of natural disasters, officials admitted at a meeting yesterday.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyễn Xuân Cường, has called on domestic and international organisations and individuals to continue their support for people hit by the recent Typhoon Damrey.

The second phase of a project on enhancing the capacity of the Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) was launched at a ceremony here today.

It is estimated that Việt Nam has lost VNĐ45,000 billion (US$2 billion) due to natural disasters this year, Nguyễn Đỗ Anh Tuấn, director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) under the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD), said.

Recent heavy rains and strong winds have caused serious erosion to hundreds of metres of Cửa Đạt reservoir’s strong dam in the central province of Thanh Hóa.