VOV.VN - The longest period of heavy rain this summer hit Ho Chi Minh City on the early morning of May 25, causing the majority of main roads throughout the city to be flooded, resulting in heavy traffic lasting for several hours.

Construction of 11 anti-flooding projects and one environmental sanitation project costing more than VND8 trillion (US$347.83 million) will begin in HCM City before the end of the year, the municipal Department of Construction has said.

VOV.VN - Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Vietnam Saud F. M. Al-Suwelim, on behalf of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, on April 23 presented the token of US$150,000 in humanitarian aid to help Vietnam’s central provinces affected by recent storms and floods.

VOV.VN - The General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has come together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to hold a seminar on April 16 in Hanoi aimed at boosting capacity building as part of integrated disaster risk management in the context of climate change.

The Prime Minister has approved a scheme for climate resilience development in urban areas in the next 10 years.

Vietnam has set a goal of building and maintaining a national water resource monitoring system and another system to forecast flooding, drought, saltwater intrusion and rising sea water level by 2030.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently granted approval to a master plan aimed at developing Vietnamese cities towards the year 2030 in response to climate change challenges.

Construction of 106 houses in natural disaster-hit areas worth VND14.3 billion (US$615,000) began in the central province of Quang Tri on March 5, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

VOV.VN - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided a sum of VND12.3 billion to 465 households in Nghia Hanh district of Quang Ngai province in order to contribute to repair work and to reinforce local houses that were damaged by typhoons and flooding last year.

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has offered the central province of Quang Tri over VND6.9 billion (over US$300,000) in non-refundable aid to help it handle the damage caused by consecutive storms and flooding in October last year.