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Storm Noru, on its way to hit the Philippines, is expected to enter the East Sea in the early hours of Monday before heading towards the central region.

Central provinces of Vietnam are expected to endure a big spell of rain in a couple of days as typhoon Noru is moving fast toward the central region, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

As many as 12 people have been injured in an accident which saw a passenger bus flip over on September 19 morning in the central province of Ha Tinh, according to details given by local police.

From March 31 to April 3, Thua Thien Hue province witnessed torrential rains, causing serious flooding in many areas.

Heavy rain and flood discharge from hydropower plants have flooded parts of the northern and central regions during the past few days, leaving three dead and four missing.

A series of floods triggered by a prolonged period of heavy rain over the past few days have disrupted traffic, submerged houses and crops and killed locals in the central and Central Highlands regions of Vietnam.

PSNews - The Da Nang authorities have decided to put under lockdown Tho Quang fishing port for one week with the aim of focusing on epidemic control, following the detection of 19 coronavirus cases.

PSNews – Storm No.9, as known as Molave, is expected to land in Central Vietnam on October 28. The local police forces in storm-affected provinces and cities are working hard to help locals respond to the storm. 

Dozens of soldiers were feared buried in mud and soil after a landslide struck a military camp in Quang Tri province, central Vietnam, overnight October 18.

PSNews – The Central Party Committee of Public Security and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on January 25 organized a meeting with generations of retired high-ranking officers of the MPS in central Vietnam on the occasion of the upcoming 2019 Lunar New Year festival. Senior Lieutenant General To Lam, Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Party Committee of Public Security, Minister of Public Security chaired the event.

PSNews - In the chilly weather typical to the time of the Lunar New Year, the Public Security (CAND) Newspaper on January 23 held a meeting with the newspaper’s collaborators and representatives of the Party Committee, the authority and police units in the central region of Vietnam, who have supported the CAND Newspaper over the past time. 

PSNews - The Department of Fire Prevention and Fighting and Rescue under the Ministry of Public Security in collaboration with US-based Cooperation UL on December 10 and 11 opened a training course on fire prevention and fighting risk assessment of industrial zones in central Vietnam for local firefighters. 

Flooding due to heavy torrential rainfall has taken the lives of 13 people across the central region over the weekend amid fears of more rain this week.

The central province of Quang Nam was hit by two earthquakes measuring between 3.1 and 3.4 on the Richter scale on Saturday morning, according to a statement by the Institute of Geophysics.

Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology has discovered a small population of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus in the tourist town of Nha Trang in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

A low pressure area now menacing off the coast may strengthened into a typhoon on Sunday or Monday.