NHA TRANG – Regional connectivity should be strengthened to devise more initiatives to cope with the “new norm of natural disasters” facing APEC members, a Vietnamese official said yesterday. One of the countries in the world most affected by climate change, Việt Nam last year saw an unprecedented surge of natural disasters. It also plans to build an initiative to boost resilience to natural disasters through facilitating sci-tech reform in disaster prevention and control. Yesterday saw six APEC working groups opening their first meetings in 2017. The Human Resource Development Working Group, meanwhile, reviewed the group’s work last year and discussed the agenda for this year.

Source: Viet Nam News February 20, 2017 22:01 UTC