The death toll in floods in central Vietnam rose to 26, with nine other people missing, as helicopters continue to drop food to people in villages still cut off by the influx.

The death toll in Vietnam from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 99 today as authorities estimated damage from the storm at 1 trillion dong (€36.75m).

Tropical Storm Mirinae brought severe flooding to parts of central Vietnam, killing at least 11 people, leaving two missing and forcing a number of families onto rooftops.

One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia today crushing homes in Cambodia and Vietnam after submerging much of the Philippine capital Manila.

A small ferry overloaded with passengers sank in central Vietnam today, killing at least 40 people including seven girls and 27 women.

FLOOD water from southern China pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam yesterday, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border.

A tropical storm that caused widespread flooding in central Vietnam over the past week has killed 65 people, officials said today.

Typhoon Xangsane landed in central Vietnam this morning, knocking down trees and electricity poles and causing widespread blackouts in the region, officials said.

Vietnam began evacuating more than 180,000 people from its central coast as powerful Typhoon Xangsane approached from the Philippines, where it left at least 63 people dead and about 70 missing, officials said today.

A mass grave containing nearly 40 sets of remains believed to be of communist soldiers killed during the Vietnam War has been uncovered in central Vietnam, it was reported today.

An air force jet crashed during training and destroyed a house in central Vietnam early today, but the two pilots parachuted to safety and no casualties were reported, officials said.

A five-year-old boy from central Vietnam has become the latest person to contract the bird flu virus that has killed 46 people in the region, health officials said today.

Authorities in central Vietnam have recovered the remains of 14 communist soldiers from three mass graves apparently dug during the Vietnam War, an official said today.

At least 315 people have died in floods in Vietnam.

A helicopter has crashed in central Vietnam, killing all 20 people aboard.