HO CHI MINH CITY – It’s not quite the first thing on everyone’s minds in the booming financial center of Vietnam, but everyone kind of knows it might happen: Global sea levels pushed up by climate change threatens to flood the city by the year 2100.

That threat resurfaced last week when U.S.-based nonprofit news organization Climate Central published a report in Nature magazine detailing timelines and locations for ever-rising seas. From 10% to one-third of Vietnam’s population would be impacted, the Oct. 29 study says.

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The government estimates that about 3 trillion kip is needed to repair the damage caused by recent flooding and to restore flood-hit communities to normal.

The impacts of disasters are a major challenge for Laos in working towards poverty eradication, with many families now lacking housing as a result of floods.

Speaking at the Round Table Pre-Consultation meeting on post-disaster recovery and disaster risk reduction indicative support, Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and Chairman of the National Disaster Prevention and Control Committee, Dr Khampheng Saysompheng, said the government is attempting to rebuild the lives of flood-affected villagers in the south and central provinces.

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In order to quickly provide information on flooded areas in the Mekong Delta, the Vietnam Space Centre, under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), has used the image of Radar Remote Sensing Satellites sent by the Sentinel- 1 of the European Space Agency in the Mekong region located on both sides of Vietnam and Cambodia for analysis. The results show that floods in the Mekong Delta are complicated.

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Residents in Nakhon Phanom were on Thursday warned to brace for possible flooding after the water level in the Mekong River rose to 11 metres, two metres away from overflow, due to downpours caused by tropical storm Son-Tinh. 

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