Hanoi, Nov. 6 -- As Typhoon Kalmaegi, the 13th storm to hit the East Sea this year, intensifies and heads toward Vietnam's central coast, localities across the central and Central Highlands regions, including Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Da Nang and Quang Ngai, have activated their highest-level disaster response measures to ensure the safety of people and property.

On November 6, Dak Lak province issued an urgent dispatch requiring all departments, agencies and communes to urgently carry out storm preparedness and evacuation plans. Local authorities were instructed to ban all marine activities, ensure that no residents remain on fishing boats or aquaculture cages, and prohibit road travel in storm-affected areas from 16:30 the same day, except fo...