As many as 4,966 safe and solid houses were built for more than 25,000 people in areas frequently hit by storms and floods during the past seven years.

In order to minimise damage caused by annual floods, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said that permanent disaster relief centres (PPKB) will be established immediately, with the pilot project to begin in nine states in the country.

The ActionAid Vietnam (AAV) and the People’s Committee of southern Tra Vinh province held a local conference on March 22 to discuss the project “Women respond to natural disasters and climate change”.

The APEC Senior Finance Officials Meeting (SFOM) concluded in the northern province of Ninh Binh on May 19 after two working days.

A project on community-based disaster risk management is benefiting thousands of people in rural and urban areas of Quang Binh, a central province prone to natural disasters.

Representatives from the Asia-Europe Meeting’s members, the United Nations (UN) and its agencies gathered for an ASEM Summit on disaster risk management in the central city of Da Nang on Sep 14.

Vietnam should be proactive in disaster risk management, Deputy Director General of the Directorate of Water Resources Nguyen Van Tinh has said.

The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) is carrying out a US-funded project on building disaster risk management capacity, as announced in Hanoi on November 23.