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.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese authorities are scrambling to evacuate more than 28,000 residents before tropical Goni makes landfall scheduled for early November 6.

VOV.VN - Rescue forces have been urgently searching for the remaining 12 missing victims of a landslide which hit the Rao Trang 3 Hydropower Plant on the evening of October 12 in Phong Dien district in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

VOV.VN - The UK government has decided to donate GBP500,000 (US$650,500) for Vietnam to support flood-hit victims in the central region.

VOV.VN - The impact of typhoon Molave has served to damage the Ho Chi Minh Trail, in addition to the La Son-Tuy Loan highway and key roads in the central region, with repair work set to carried out in a rapid manner to help bring transportation back to normal and mitigate the affect of local landslides.

VOV.VN - Storm Goni, the tenth typhoon of the year, entered the East Sea on the morning of November 2 after sweeping down the Philippines, according to the National Centre of Hydro-meteorological and Forecasting (NCHF).