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Earning a living in 60 degrees Celsius fish-steaming workshops

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hundreds of poor workers in Binh Dinh province, in central Vietnam, work hard for 10 hours each day inside fish-steaming facilities to earn a daily income from VND150,000 to VND200,000 ($7-10) per person.

Intense heat wave spreads through northern, central Vietnam

 A 40-degree heat wave is sweeping through the northern and central regions of Vietnam on July 1, said the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Images: Year-end good harvest of fishermen in central Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge - Thousands of fishermen of Quang Ngai province have returned home from Hoang Sa and Truong Sa waters with boats full of fish to prepare for the lunar New Year festival.

Photos: Fishermen earn $500 a day from "godsend" in central Vietnam

From the ninth to 11th month of the lunar calendar, oysters usually wash ashore in Thach Hai commune in Thach Ha district of Ha Tinh province in central Vietnam when the sea is rough. This is an opportunity for local people to make money.

Cuisines from Central Vietnam

 VietNamNet Bridge – Danang is well known for being a lovely tourism destination in Central Vietnam. The city has all favors from the nature and weather, compared to neighboring localities.

Quang Binh - A rendezvous in central Vietnam

 With a complex of over 300 caves and a 116km-long coastline with white sand, Quang Binh is becoming a potential tourist destination in the system entitled “Central Heritage Road”.

Nearly 2,000 people become poor after floods in Quang Ngai

 VietNamNet Bridge - After the historic floods, nearly 2,000 people lost their entire assets and become poor people, causing concern for the local authorities.

How did the flooding which killed over 40 people occur?

At least 41 people died, over 10 bridges were swept away, two large mountains struck down to the road, and hundreds of thousands of houses were sunken. These are the consequences left by the latest tropical depression in central Vietnam.

In photos: Wood, rubbish pile up after floods in central Vietnam

The beaches of Da Nang have become giant landfills with hundreds of tons of wood and rubbish drifting from the upstream. In Quang Ngai, people salvaged a lot of wood, including tree trunks of up to 1m in diameter, earning hundreds of US dollars.

In pictures: Historic flooding destroys central Vietnam

 Floods triggered by torrential rains in the central region have killed at least 31 people, left two missing and seriously injured three others, disaster officials said on November 17.

Typhoon Nari devastates central Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge - At least three people were killed in Quang Nam and 11 others injured in Danang when typhoon Nari, packing winds of up to 150kph, battered central provinces early on October 15. 

Central Vietnam devastated after storm Wutip

Last night, the storm left Vietnam to Laos. At Quang Tri and Quang Binh, the center of the storm, about 5,000 houses were unroofed, a series of signboards, trees and electric poles were knocked down, and the electrical grid was damaged.

Super typhoon makes landfall in central Vietnam

In many provinces on the central region, from Hue to Ha Tinh, wind is getting strong, accompanied by heavy rain. Super typhoon Wutip has begun making landfall in Vietnam, damaging many houses and trees.

Super-storm Wutip approaching Vietnam’s central coast

 VietNamNet Bridge - This morning, September 30, the storm eye was about 200 km off the coast of Ha Tinh and Thua Thien - Hue provinces and is expected to hit land at 4pm.

Quang Binh fishermen rescue one-ton whale

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fishermen and relevant agencies of the central province of Quang Binh successfully rescued a whale of more than one ton that was caught in a net today, May 22.