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May. Heavy rain hit northern Vietnam from 29-30 May, resulting in serious flooding in Ha Giang, Yen Bai, Cao Bang and Thanh Hoa. In Bac Quang, Ha Giang, five houses were destroyed and one child was killed. In Yen Bai, flash floods killed one man in Văn Chấn Commune. [1] In Cao Bang, flooding swept away more than a dozen houses and killed one ...
Hiking. Black Virgin Mountain (Vietnamese: Núi Bà Đen, lit. 'Mountain of Black Lady') is a mountain in Tây Ninh City, Vietnam. The mountain is the center of a Vietnamese myth about Bà Đen. During the Vietnam War the area around the mountain was a hot zone as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ended a few kilometers west across the Cambodian border.
Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972. The highly classified program attempted to extend the monsoon season over specific areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to disrupt North Vietnamese ...
Vietnam, [ e ][ f ] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [ g ] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
2019 Vietnam forest fires; Date(s) 22 June – August 2019: Location: City of Đà Nẵng, provinces of Hà Tĩnh, Nghệ An and Thừa Thiên-Huế in Vietnam: Statistics; Burned area: More than 782 hectares of forests are damaged in three provinces: 500 hectares of forest (Đà Nẵng) [1] 267 hectares of forest (Hà Tĩnh) [1] 15 hectare of ...
The history of Vietnamcan be traced back to around 20,000 years ago. The first modern humans to arrive and settle in the area of modern-day Vietnam are known as the Hoabinhians, who can be traced as the ancestors of modern-day Negritos. Archaeological findings from 1965, which are still under research, show the remains of two homininsclosely ...
Show comments. HANOI (Reuters) -Several Hanoi districts remained flooded on Thursday with the weather agency forecasting little change in water levels of the Red River over the next 24 hours, as ...
Landslides triggered by torrential rains in mountainous northern Vietnam buried a 16-seater van, killing at least 11 people and leaving some missing on Saturday, state media reported. Rescue teams ...