VOV.VN - The Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control has called on coastal central localities from Thanh Hoa to Binh Thuan to brace for the arrival of Vamco, the 13th storm of the year which is poised to enter the East Sea within the next 24 hours, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Dozens of foreign countries and organizations have extended their humanitarian support to Vietnam following havoc caused by severe floods in the country’s central region late October.

VOV.VN - Local authorities from Binh Dinh to Binh Thuan provinces have made plans to evacuate approximately 400,000 local residents before Storm Etau makes landfall on November 10.

VOV.VN - Flash floods hit Tra Leng commune of Nam Tra My district in the central province of Quang Nam on November 6, with a total of 14 houses in village 2 being swept away as a result of the weather event.

The Australian and Swiss governments have announced urgent humanitarian assistance to residents hit by the recent floods in Vietnam’s central region.

Creating more detailed flood and landslide risk maps is among the solutions the Government will carry out in the time ahead to cope with possible natural disasters, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said on November 6.

Leaders of Egypt and Germany have extended their sympathies to Vietnamese leaders over the heavy property and human losses caused by recent floods and landslides in the central region.

VOV.VN - A period of heavy downpours has left many areas throughout the central provinces of Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh inundated with flooding, contributing a negative impact on the daily lives of local citizens.

Extreme weather conditions are becoming more common regionally and globally and have greatly affected Vietnam, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha told lawmakers in Hanoi on November 5.

Within October, central Vietnam got struck by three floods, four storms and a series of landslides that claimed 159 lives and left 71 missing.