Hanoi, Nov. 26 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered the highest-level, most decisive response to Storm Koto, the 15th to form in the East Sea this year, placing public safety above all else. In an official dispatch to ministries and coastal localities on November 26, the leader urged them to closely monitor and continuously update developments, taking proactive response measures. Ministers and the chairpersons of provincial-level People's Committees should be fully accountable to the government and the PM for the outcomes of storm and flood prevention and response efforts in their respective sectors, he stressed. Coastal cities and provinces were urged to guide vessels still at sea, especially in areas directly threatened by the ...