Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco) held a ceremony in the central coastal province of Quang Nam on December 28 to hand over 15 Vietnamese branded buses for export to the Philippines.
The People’s Committee of Quang Ngai province yesterday issued an urgent dispatch to the National Committee for Natural Disaster Response and Search and Rescue, the Consular Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about assistance for fishing boats and fishermen from the province to dock in the territorial waters of the Philippines to avoid typhoon Nakri.
Out of 700 attendees, 119 International contestants of 14 groups took part in the Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition (HOMC) which was opened yesterday.
The Philippines notified Vietnam that it has initiated a preliminary safeguard investigation on the importation of cement from various countries, including Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The Philippines is investigating the deaths of 14 children which were suspected of being related to the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia, the use which was suspended by the government recently, the country’s health officials said on January 5.
Mudslides and flooding triggered by typhoon Tembin killed 208 people and left 164 missing in southern Philippines as of afternoon of December 24, two days after the storm swept through Mindanao island.
The Philippine police said on December 23 that the death toll from tropical storm Tembin has climbed to 133 while scores of people have been missing and more than 50,000 others displaced.
