Hanoi, Nov. 7 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 7 urged efforts to promptly restore essential infrastructure, especially electricity, water, telecommunications, and transport systems, in the central provinces affected by Typhoon Kalmaegi. In an official dispatch sent to the chairpersons of the People's Committees of Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Quang Ngai provinces, ministers, and heads of ministry-level agencies and Government agencies, PM Chinh noted that Typhoon Kalmaegi, the 13th storm in the East Sea this year, hit Vietnam's mainland on November 6 evening, leaving five people dead and missing. It also destroyed 57 houses and unroofed thousands of others. Tens of thousands of aquaculture cages were damaged, and many power and tele...