Recent natural disasters in india

India, clearly, needs to be watchful in the months ahead. "We need to be alert and anticipate where this is going next. The situation is all the more alarming as it comes at a time when the affected states are already reeling under Covid-19 and the ongoing heatwave," says Anshu Sharma of Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society, a non-profit disaster management organisation. BBC … [Read more...] about India combats locust attack amid Covid-19 pandemic

AN GIANG — Local authorities discovered a 70m-long crack in the road surface of Mỹ Thạnh Ward, Long Xuyên City, the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang. The relevant agency has also promptly moved 14 households to safety. … [Read more...] about 70m-long crack discovered in Mỹ Thạnh Ward, An Giang Province

Hanoi (VNA) - An online table-top exercise (TTX) on COVID-19 response among ASEAN member states’ military medicine forces was held on May 27, chaired by the Vietnamese Defence Ministry’s Military Medical Department. The exercise attracted the participation of observers, representatives from the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs of ASEAN member states, representatives from the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre), and delegates from the military medicine forces of China, India, Japan, the US, Australia, Russia, and the Republic of Korea. The TTX aimed at assessing the experience of ASEAN states’ military medicine forces in response to the pandemic, defining the relationship between the military medicine force and other forces in this fight, and analysing any shortcomings based on the World Health Organisation’s Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP), so as to build a joint plan of action to … [Read more...] about ASEAN military medicine forces join online COVID-19 response exercise

Hanoi (VNA) – With success in containing the spread of COVID-19, Vietnam now holds advantages in economic recovery, according to former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan. He wrote in a recent article that however, there are many unforeseeable factors in the world’s situation that can affect Vietnam. Vietnam is building and on the verge of adopting socioeconomic development plans for 2021-2025 and 2021-2030 and vision towards 2045 in the “new normal situation”, he said. He recalled the regional crisis in 1997, when Vietnam was implementing its 1991-2000 socioeconomic development strategy, the global financial crisis in 2008, during its 2001-2010 strategy, and this pandemic, just as the 2011-2020 plan is coming to an end. The less-than-expected annual GDP growth in the ten-year strategies is mostly attributable to unexpected crises, Khoan said, adding that what will happen over the next five, ten, or 25 years is simply unpredictable. Citing the five … [Read more...] about Vietnam at advantage in economic recovery post-COVID-19: Former Deputy PM