New Zealand will commit NZ$170,000 (US$116,000) in humanitarian aid to help struggling communities in central Việt Nam deal with the consequences of the floods and successive deadly storms affecting the region since early October.

Trần Nhật Minh, a 12th-grader of Lê Hồng Phong High School for the Gifted, spends hours browsing the internet daily, searching for maths tests to do.

A train hit a container truck at the intersection of the railway and Lý Thường Kiệt Street on Friday in Bình Dương Province’s Dĩ An City, and earlier this year, in May, a man died after being hit by a train in HCM City Thủ Đức District.