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/ 5 November 2007
Floods have killed at least 46 people in central Vietnam in the past 10 days, and a typhoon making its way across the South China Sea is forecast to dump more rain this week, reports said on Monday. The region, which includes the Central Highlands coffee belt, has been hit hard by storms and floods since early October.
Typhoon Lekima lashed Vietnam and southern China with torrential rains and high winds, killing at least seven people, damaging hundreds of homes and disrupting air, sea and train travel. The storm, which killed at least five people in the Philippines at the weekend, swept into Vietnam from the sea on Wednesday night