23 dead as Typhoon Ketsana strikes Vietnam’s central coast

October 5th, 2009 Storm lingers after killing 16 in PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Parma weakened into a tropical storm that lingered off the Philippine coast Monday, drenching northern provinces as well as Taiwan after killing 16 people and causing widespread flooding and landslides. Chief government forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said Parma headed northwest into the South China Sea after passing over the Philippines, which is still reeling from an earlier storm that killed almost 300 people.

October 5th, 2009 HANOI - At least 163 people have been killed in typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam, a media report said Sunday. Seventeen people were missing and 616 people were injured after the storm that hit the country's highlands and central provinces last Tuesday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

October 5th, 2009 TAIPEI - Taiwan's coast guard are searching for a Panamanian freighter which sent out an SOS near Taiwan during Typhoon Parma, the Taipei Rescue and Coordination Centre said Monday. "The search for the Panamanian freighter is still going on," a duty officer at the rescue centre said by phone without giving details because he was not authorised to speak to the press.

October 3rd, 2009 Latest typhoon kills 4 in PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Parma cut a path across the Philippines' northern edge on Saturday, killing four people but sparing the capital from a second flood disaster as the storm churned toward Taiwan. Tens of thousands of Filipinos had evacuated their homes as the storm bore down on the main island of Luzon just eight days after an earlier tempest left Manila awash in floods that killed almost 300 people.

October 2nd, 2009 MANILA - All of the Philippines was placed under a "state of calamity" Friday as Supertyphoon Parma moved closer to the country's main island of Luzon, less than a week after tropical storm Ketsana wreaked havoc in the capital and outlying areas. Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said the declaration was aimed at giving the government power to control prices of basic commodities and free up local emergency funds.

October 2nd, 2009 MANILA - Hundreds of people were evacuated Friday as super typhoon Parma moved closer to the northern Philippines' main island of Luzon, less than a week after storm Ketsana wreaked havoc in the capital and outlying areas. Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said local officials in the northern provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga supervised the evacuation of residents living near river banks and low-lying areas that could be flooded when Parma hits the area on Saturday, as predicted.

October 2nd, 2009 Typhoon weakens slightly as Philippines bracesMANILA, Philippines — Filipinos braced Saturday for their second typhoon in eight days, though the storm weakened just hours before it was due to hit and the threat of another disaster in the flood-soaked capital eased. Better news for the Philippines was bad news for Taiwan, which issued a storm warning and began evacuating villages in the south as Typhoon Parma headed more sharply north toward the island.

October 1st, 2009 Evacuations start for new Philippine stormMANILA, Philippines — Filipinos in the likely path of a looming typhoon began evacuating Friday, as the toll from a storm that tore across Southeast Asia days earlier rose to more than 400. Officials fear Typhoon Parma — due to hit Saturday unless it changes course — will cause a second disaster in the northern Philippines after the worst flooding in four decades swamped the homes of more than 2 million people.

September 30th, 2009 23 dead as Typhoon Ketsana roars into VietnamHANOI, Vietnam — Typhoon Ketsana roared into central Vietnam on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people as it brought flooding and winds of up to 90 mph (144 kph), disaster officials said. Some 170,000 were evacuated from its path.

September 30th, 2009 HANOI - At least 38 people have been killed and 10 are missing after typhoon Ketsana struck central Vietnam, national storm and flood authorities said Wednesday. The typhoon brought winds of 117 km per hour (kph) when it came ashore in the central province of Quang Nam Tuesday morning, and dumped up to 900 mm of rain.

September 30th, 2009 170,000 evacuated as typhoon approaches VietnamHANOI, Vietnam — Authorities in Vietnam have evacuated 170,000 people as Typhoon Ketsana bears down on the country's central coast. The storm killed 240 people in the Philippines.

September 28th, 2009 HANOI - Four days of floods killed at least 17 people and left six missing in central Vietnam, the country's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Monday. Heavy rains destroyed more than 9,600 homes and flooded some 2,500 hectares of rice and 5,800 hectares of vegetables, officials said.

September 17th, 2009 China reports 9 dead, 9 missing from typhoonBEIJING — Chinese state media say nine people have been killed and nine others are missing after Typhoon Koppu roared into the southern province of Guangdong. The Xinhua News Agency said in a brief report Thursday that the deaths were caused by landslides, collapsed homes and flooding caused by torrential rains.

August 31st, 2009 Typhoon slams into Japan's east coast injuring 3TOKYO — Japan's Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Krovanh has slammed into the country's east coast bringing heavy rain and strong winds. The agency says the typhoon dumped heavy rain in Tokyo and its environs Monday and is moving north.

August 10th, 2009 Report: 5 dead, 10 missing as typhoon hits JapanTOKYO —Public broadcaster NHK says a typhoon has slammed into Japan leaving five people dead and 10 others missing. Japan's Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Etau has caused torrential rain to hit the region.