The HCMC Center for Flood Control Program has proposed building seven anti-flood reservoirs with Japanese cross-wave technology, for total costs of VND475 billion. However, some experts doubt the reservoirs will help.

 More than 1.7 million people and thousands of hectares of rice in the central province of Quang Nam and Da Nang city will soon be protected from heavy flood and drought damage.

 VietNamNet Bridge - About 100 households in a commune of Luc Ngan district in Bac Giang province have lived without electricity, travel by boat and had no means of communication for many years.

 Seventy long-tailed macaques were yesterday returned to Ba Mun island in Bai Tu Long National Park, located in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of reservoirs and dams built in the central region in the years before 1990s have become seriously damaged. Local residents have been living in the fear that the dams may get broken in the rainy season.

On January 16, Quang Nam province’s officials met to discuss the evacuation plan in case the dam of Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant is broken in earthquakes. Experts estimated that more than 62,000 people would have to evacuate if a disaster occurs.