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.

Typhoon Damrey killed at least 49 people, left 27 others missing and injured at least 64 people after making its landfall on the south central and Central Highlands provinces since Saturday, according to the latest update of Central Steering Committee for Natural Disasters Prevention and Control.

 An eight-year-old primary school student in the central province of Quang Nam has died of diphtheria, while six other students aged four to 12 have been infected with the disease in the mountainous Trà Vân commune of Nam Trà My District.