Hundreds of households in Phú Mỹ Town in southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province have been suffering from losses caused by floods as a consequence of broken Giao Kèo dam on Monday.

John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Việt Nam who served as a US senator from Arizona for more than three decades, died on Saturday at the age of 81.

Eleven communes in the lowland area of Thanh Chương District in central Nghệ An Province have been heavily inundated due to the rising level of the Lam River.

Landslides and more cracks have appeared on Road 445 in Kỳ Sơn District, northern province of Hòa Bình, threatening residential areas.

Farmers in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos.

The death toll in the Sơn Tinh Typhoon has raised to 29, according to National Committee for Search and Rescue, with 10 more still missing as the country is bracing for new heavy downpour on Tuesday.

The toll in deadly rainfall that has devastated parts of Japan with flooding and landslides rose Tuesday to 141, as hopes faded that further survivors could be found.

President Trần Đại Quang and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday inspected flood recovery efforts and visited some of the worst-affected residents.

Nguyễn Đức Trọng, deputy director of the Animal Health Department, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) on the country’s efforts to restore livestock production as soon as floodwaters recede.

The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health warned yesterday that flooding and rains in central and northern provinces could trigger disease outbreaks.