The HCM City Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention and Control has ordered city districts to take timely measures to deal with risks of falling trees during the rainy season, following the death of a student

Vietnam is forecast to suffer the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2020, according to the latest report by the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration.

The HCM City administration has ordered the city Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Rescue and local authorities to assess 300 sites that face a high risk of landslides and floods in case of heavy rains and storms.

This year's stormy season on the East Sea will begin later than previous years, with about 13 tropical storms and depressions expected, according to General Director of the Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration Tran Hong Thai.

It is now the flood season in the Mekong Delta, but people there have already begun to worry about saline intrusion in the upcoming dry season.

The latest case of Whitmore’s disease, also known as melioidosis, was reported at Hanoi’s Duc Giang General Hospital on Monday.

The water level of around 1,800 reservoirs in the northern and northern central region is posing flooding risks for many localities during the rainy season.

Authorities in HCM City have completed a number of projects earlier than scheduled in an effort to prepare for the rainy season.

The HCM City People’s Council has urged Tan Binh District authorities to speed up the progress of flood-prevention projects inside Tan Son Nhat international airport to prepare for the coming rainy season.

Phan Van Tan from the Meteorology, Hydrology and Oceanography Faculty of the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences, said storms cause devastation but also bring certain benefits.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities is working with all 24 districts on a wide range of plans to prevent flooding in the rainy season.

VietNamNet Bridge - La Nina has returned this year but it won’t have a strong impact, according to the Central Hydrometeorological Forecasting Center.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When rain comes, people in southeastern provinces will collect mushrooms in cashew, coffee and rubber farming areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have proposed using the Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal as a reservoir to regulate water as urban floods have become more serious during the rainy season in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – As many as 320 reservoirs nationwide risk breaking during the rainy season, heard a workshop on irrigation system management held on Tuesday in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Viet Ngai, chairman of the Viet Nam Energy Association (VEA), tells Nong Thon Ngay Nay (Countryside Today) that small-scale hydropower plants have to be shut down

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tourists may have been once suggested to visit Hoang Su Phi in the harvest season in autumn to admire the endless glistening yellowish color of terraced rice fields.

June, when the summer rains cool the northwestern mountains, is the time for a new rice crop in the Northwestern region. It is also the time when terraced fields in Yen Bai Province have an exotic beauty.

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