Floods kill at least 120 in Vietnam, China

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

HANOI (Reuters) - Flood water from southern China pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border.

Flooding in northern and central Vietnam since last Friday has killed 86 people, including eight children, while 34 have died from flooding and mudslides in southwestern China.

Vietnam, the world's third-largest rice exporter, has not released any crop damage estimates in the northern delta, but the government said nearly 260,000 hectares of rice, corn, sugarcane and fruit had been submerged.

However, the country's main agricultural area, including the Central Highlands coffee belt and the Mekong Delta rice basket, has not been affected by the floods, although rain disrupted coffee harvesting last week.



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[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. Terrible.

It doesn't seem like there's any good news coming out of southeast Asia today.

[Coventina]

2. I just posted a thread on the death penalty being reduced in Vietnam

That's a little bit of good news....