Ho Binh Minh, Hanoi

Seasonal flooding in the southern Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s main rice-growing region, has left 222 people dead, including 182 children, an official said today.

More than 230,000 people are in need of emergency food aid after floods in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta that killed 56 people.

Rising flood waters triggered by heavy seasonal rains have killed 17 people in central and southern Vietnam.