Illegal logging is threatening the protected forest of Sông Tranh in the central province of Quảng Nam’s Bắc Trà My District, with hundred-year-old trees being felled, nhandan.com.vn reported. 

On December 5, tens of rare timber trees such as chò (White Meranti), sến (Lauan, Meranti) and lim (ironwood) were found to be chopped down in the forest area in Village 5 in Trà Đốc Commune in Trà Đốc Nature Reserve in central Quảng Nam Province.

Việt Nam has recorded 35 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5-4.5 so far this year, according the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting on Thursday on housing assistance for people affected by flash floods and landslides nationwide, stressing that helping the victims to rebuild their homes is an urgent task.

Four earthquakes, measuring from 2.7 to 3.5 on the Richter scale, hit the districts of Bắc Trà My and Nam Trà My in the central province of Quảng Nam on Thursday morning (July 26), but no damage or casualties were reported.

An earthquake, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, hit the district of Nam Trà My in the central province of Quảng Nam around 7am yesterday morning (July 17), but no damage or casualties were reported.

A month-long spring festival will be held at the coastal entertainment and hospitality complex CocoBay in Da Nang from February 12 to March 11, featuring Tết (Lunar New Year) customs, folk games and traditional cuisine.

Saigon Co.op and Co.opmart supermarkets have made donations of cash and essential goods to victims of Typhoon Damrey in the south-central region earlier this month besides organising mobile sales campaigns to sell essential goods at cheap prices.

The police in the central province of Khánh Hòa’s Ninh Hòa Town identified the person who posted a fake story about Đá Bàn dam being broken on Facebook.

The number of dead people due to typhoon Damrey now raised to 69, 20 people higher than the Monday report of central and south central localities – where the typhoon churned through.