Outages will last up to seven hours in some areas. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HANOI – Vietnam began planned nationwide blackouts as it struggles to meet surging power demand amid extremely hot weather.
Parts of Asia have been hit by sizzling temperatures over the last few weeks and face further impacts from an emerging El Nino weather pattern, which typically brings hotter and drier weather to the continent. Mr Chinh’s government has called on state-owned coal miners and Vietnam Oil and Gas Group to work to ensure power plants have sufficient fuel.
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