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.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that ministries, agencies, and localities prioritise removing obstacles to business and production, while chairing a Government meeting on August 5 in Hanoi to review socio-economic performance in July and outline orientations for August and beyond.

VOV.VN - The East Sea is anticipated to brace for two to three tropical storms or tropical depressions in August 2023 that are likely to pound the coast of Vietnam, according to the National Centre for Hydro Meteorological Forecasting.

VOV.VN - Storm Doksuri is likely to develop into a super typhoon and become the second storm to enter the East Sea this year, said Nguyen Van Huong, head of Weather Forecasting Division under the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF), on July 24.

VOV.VN - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has moved to revise its growth forecast for Vietnam, reducing the rate from 6.5% to 5.8% for this year, and from 6.8% to 6.2% ahead in 2024, according to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) July 2023 released on July 19.

VOV.VN - The low pressure zone in the eastern sea area of the central Philippines has developed into a tropical depression, and is forecast to head towards the East Sea, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

VOV.VN - Disturbances are likely to occur on the tropical convergence belt between July 15 and July 20, with this forecast to develop into a tropical depression or storm over the East Sea, according to details given by the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

VOV.VN - Despite Vietnam’s GDP in the second quarter rising by a higher-than-expected pace of 4.1% on-year, HSBC reduced the growth forecast for 2023 to 5.0% from the previous figure of 5.2% due to mounting broad-based challenges, according to July’s HSBC report “Vietnam at a glance”.

VOV.VN - El Nino is set to return in late May or early June, with the weather pattern likely to last till early 2024, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting of Vietnam.

Hydroelectric reservoirs' water levels are lower than annual averages, according to a May 10 report from Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN), and 10 are either close to or under the 'dead level'.