Viet Nam: Floods - Aug 2007 Updates

1. SYNOPSIS Following the significant flood conditions of 2011, the situation during 2012 proved to be quite the opposite. The flood peak and volume were between 30 and 40% below the long term...

GLIDE n=B0 TC-2007-00178-VNM 16 January 2009 Period covered by this Final Report: 10 October 2007-10 October 2008; Appeal target (current): CHF 3,231,507 (USD 2.7 million or EUR 1.9 million) Appeal...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $25.5 million supplementary financing to an existing emergency assistance loan to Viet Nam for the rehabilitation of rural...

This report covers the period 1 January to 30 June 2008. In brief Programme purpose: The 2008-2009 support programme aims to strengthen the Vietnam Red Cross Society's role as the leading...

1. Introduction As in 2006, the 2007 Annual Flood Report aims to fill two primary roles, (i) to provide a summary of flood conditions in the Mekong Region over the year, and (ii) to collate the...

This year, three key developments have influenced WHO's emergency work: 1) the increasing demands from Member States to strengthen WHO's emergency response operations; 2) the implementation of the...

This report covers the period 1/7/2007 to 30/11/2007 of the 2006-07 appeal. In a world of global challenges, continued poverty, inequity, and increasing vulnerability to disasters and disease, the...

HANOI, Jan 2, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Natural disasters, mainly floods, hail, landslide and storms, claimed 435 lives and left 850 others missing or injured in Vietnam last year, Vietnam News...

This appeal seeks CHF 2,019,827 (USD 1.8 million or EUR 1.22 million) to fund the planned programmes to be implemented in 2008-2009. Click here for budget summary. This amount will be supplemented by...

This appeal seeks CHF 6,811,539 (USD 6.09 million or EUR 4.13 million) to fund the planned programmes that are to be implemented in 2008-2009. The overall budget is CHF 8,923,817 (USD 7.98 million or...

Info Note No. 41 For use of the information media. Not an official record Hanoi/Geneva, 19 December 2007 (WMO) - With climate change and drought threatening agriculture in Asia, the World...

Cologne. With financial support from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Malteser International is handing out food items and blankets to the population of the provinces Quang-Nam and Danang in...

HANOI, Dec 10, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --Vietnam officially announced Monday an end to acute diarrhea after the disease started striking Hanoi capital and some neighboring localities on Oct. 23,...

HANOI, Dec 5, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Natural disasters, mainly floods, whirlwinds and flood-tides, killed 117 people, left nine missing, and injured 88 in Vietnam in November, local newspaper...

Each week, the World Health Organization Health Action in Crises in Geneva produces information highlights on critical health-related activities in countries where there are humanitarian crises...

HANOI, Nov 21, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Vietnam has detected 78 fatalities due to dengue fever since the beginning of this year, increasing over 55 percent compare with the same period of last...

Each week, the World Health Organization Health Action in Crises in Geneva produces information highlights on critical health-related activities in countries where there are humanitarian crises...

HANOI, Nov 15, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Vietnam is likely to contain acute diarrhea outbreaks in the next 5-7 days, if it well remains measures to combat the disease, local newspaper Young People...

HANOI, Nov 15, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Flooding triggered by torrential rains in Vietnam's central region killed 35 local people, left six missing, and injured 28 between Nov. 10 and 14,...

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