Previously, on May 25 morning, Dien Bien province receive the remains of eight Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts which were recovered during the 2024-2025 dry season.
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang and the four Cambodian provinces of Koh Kong, Preah Sihanouk, Kam Pot and Kep on November 15 agreed to continue cooperation in searching, gathering and repatriating remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in Cambodia during the wartime.
Immediately after two consecutive earthquakes hit on the evening of February 20 in Hatay, Turkey, relevant forces were put on alert. Local and international rescue teams, including from Vietnam, promptly arrived and began rescuing people in affected areas.
A 24-member team deployed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security has begun engaging in search and rescue efforts in the Turkish southeastern city of Adiyaman, which is among localities bearing the brunt of the devastating February 6 earthquake.
The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum held a ceremony on November 5 to send off the province's team in charge of searching for and repatriating remains of volunteer martyrs and experts who died in Laos and Cambodia during wartime (Team K5) on its mission in the 2022-2023 dry season.
The People's Committee of the south-central coastal province of Binh Thuan on July 12 called on relevant units to urgently support the search for a fishing boat with 18 workers on board which lost contact from July 10.
A ceremony was held in the northern Lao province of Oudomxay on June 16 to repatriate eight sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in the neighbouring country.
The Steering Committee on Search and Repatriation of Remains of Fallen Soldiers (Steering Committee 515) of Military Zone 7, and those of Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc and Long An provinces on February 21 re-started the operation of teams for searching and repatriating remains of Vietnamese fallen soldiers in Cambodia during wartime, after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Torrential rains have hampered the search for victims in an earthquake in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island which killed at least 73 and left thousands homeless.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 18 issued a dispatch asking for greater efforts to rescue operations and settlement of consequences of landslides in the central provinces of Thua Thien – Hue and Quang Tri.
The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukouka has worked closely with authorities of Miyazaki prefecture and other relevant agencies of Japan to verify relative information and promote the search for two Vietnamese apprentices who went missing after Super Typhoon Haishen swept through Kyushu Island on early September 7.
The Ministry of Home Affairs of Myanmar reported that 13 people died and one is still missing when a ship carrying 25 pilgrims capsized in the country’s Mandalay region on July 24.
Vietnam has called for help from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia to search for 10 fishermen who have been missing since December 2018.
Indonesia’s Lion Air announced on January 3 that the carrier had ended its search for the second black box voice recorder of its Boeing 737 Max jet which crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, killing all 189 people aboard.
Rescuers have found the teenage football team who are alive after nine days trapped inside Tham Luang cave, and preparations are being made to take them out, authorities from Thailand’s Chiang Rai province said on July 2.
The Malaysian Government signed a deal with US-based Ocean Infinity in a new attempt to search for the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft MH370 in which the firm will receive up to 70 million USD if it finds the jet.
