Four people have died and gone missing due to prolonged heavy rains and floods that hit northern mountainous provinces over the weekend.

Vietnam saw a total of 930,000 children having to leave their homes in the six-year period between 2016 and 2021 due to extreme weather phenomena such as floods, storms and drought, according to a new UNICEF report released on October 6.

Ho Chi Minh City highly values Germany’s capacity for education and vocation training, and wishes to step up cooperation with Lower Saxony state in this field through specific projects, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan told visiting Minister-President of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil on October 6.

VOV.VN - Eight people have been reported dead and missing following the recent downpours which unleashed floods and landslides across the northern and central regions.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has dispatched a telegram, asking relevant agencies and localities to adopt necessary measures to cushion the impact of the ongoing spell of heavy rain and flooding in northern and central regions in the wake of the recent tropical depression.

VOV.VN - Heavy downpour as a consequence of the tropical depression has caused water levels in major rivers of central Vietnam to swell up over the past few days, flooding many localities in the region.

VOV.VN - Heavy rain which hit on the night of September 12 caused flash floods and landslides to hit several areas, resulting in the deaths of three people, leaving seven others missing in Sa Pa district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Savannakhet, central Laos, along with the Vietnamese Association and the Vietnamese Business Association in the provinces of Savannakhet, Khammouane and Bolikhamxay, have recently offered gifts to those recently affected by floods and landslides there.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed a dispatch on August 8 requesting efforts be made to prevent, control, and mitigate damage from landslides, riverbank and coastal erosion, and flash floods.

VOV.VN - As many as 1,753 natural disasters hit Vietnam during the first seven months of the year, leaving 267 dead, 78 missing, and 291 injured, a conference of the national steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control heard on August 7.