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Typhoon Bualoi batters Vietnam coast, killing 11
AFP, Published on 29/09/2025
» HANOI - Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people, local and national officials said on Monday.
Vietnam evacuates thousands, shuts airports as Typhoon Bualoi nears
Reuters, Published on 28/09/2025
» VINH, Vietnam - Vietnam closed airports and evacuated thousands of people in areas under storm threat on Sunday, as intensifying Typhoon Bualoi barrelled towards the country, days after causing at least 10 deaths and widespread flooding in the Philippines.
Vietnam plans mass evacuation, China's Sanya shuts as Typhoon Kajiki intensifies
Reuters, Published on 24/08/2025
» HANOI/BEIJING - Vietnam plans to evacuate more than half a million people and has ordered boats to stay ashore, while the southern Chinese city of Sanya closed businesses and public transport on Sunday as the two countries braced for an intensifying Typhoon Kajiki.
Dozens dead in Vietnam after Ha Long Bay tourist ferry sinks
AFP, Published on 20/07/2025
» HALONG BAY (VIETNAM) - Rescuers were desperately searching for five people still missing on Sunday after 37 were killed when a boat capsized in one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations.
Tourist boat capsizes in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, leaving 34 dead
AFP, Published on 19/07/2025
» HANOI - A tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam's Ha Long Bay capsized in a storm on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least 34 people dead, according to state media reports, as rescuers scrambled to locate the missing.
242 million children's schooling disrupted by climate shocks in 2024: Unicef
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year -- roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring an "overlooked" aspect of the climate crisis.
'Dangerous new era': climate change spurs disaster in 2024
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» PARIS - From tiny and impoverished Mayotte to oil-rich behemoth Saudi Arabia, prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024.
Tropical Storm Trami tracks toward Philippines
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/10/2024
» MANILA - Tropical Storm Trami is moving toward the main island of the Philippines and is expected to strengthen before making landfall, bringing heavy rain and threatening rice crops.
Typhoon-hit Southeast Asian countries to see rainier end to 2024
Bloomberg, Published on 15/10/2024
» Southeast Asia could see higher-than-normal rainfall in the coming months, threatening further disruptions to agriculture, tourism and industrial output in a region already hit by a series of storms this year.
Vietnam evacuates hundreds as new storm hits
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/09/2024
» Vietnam evacuated hundreds of people, shut schools and suspended flights on Thursday as a new tropical storm barreled into the country’s central region.