Tropical Storm Mirinae kills 23 people in Vietnam, 2 in Cambodia

Tropical storm kills 23 in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam — Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Mirinae kills 11 people, leaves 2 missing in central Vietnam

Tropical storm Mirinae kills 11 in central Vietnam

Tropical Storm Mirinae slams into Vietnam’s central coast as thousands evacuate

Major storm slams Vietnam; thousands evacuate

Tropical Storm Mirinae slams Vietnam’s central coast as thousands evacuate

Tropical Storm Mirinae slams Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam — Tropical Storm Mirinae slammed Vietnam’s central coast Monday, unleashing heavy rains and winds and forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate.

Vietnam evacuates coastal areas as tropical storm approaches

Vietnam evacuates coastal areas as storm nears

4th typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines, then heads toward Vietnam as tropical storm

4th typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines — A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.

4th typhoon leaves 14 dead in Philippines, forecasters detect new brewing storm

4th typhoon leaves 14 dead in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines — A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.

Vietnam demands investigation of China’s ‘brutal’ treatment of fishermen

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has demanded that China investigate “brutal” treatment of Vietnamese fishermen who sought shelter during a typhoon in disputed South China Sea islands, where officials allege they were beaten and robbed by Chinese personnel.

Obama honors Army unit for heroism in Vietnam; credited with saving about 100 troops

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded an Army squadron the military’s highest unit honor for its daring Vietnam War rescue of fellow soldiers, saying he wanted to help right “one of the saddest episodes in American history.”

Obama honors Army troop for heroism in Vietnam with Presidential Unit Citation

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has awarded the Presidential Unit Citation to an Army troop for a daring rescue mission during the Vietnam War nearly 40 years ago.

Obama to honor Army troop for heroism in Vietnam with Presidential Unit Citation

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is awarding the Presidential Unit Citation to an Army troop for heroism in Vietnam.

US condemns Vietnam’s treatment of democracy activists, monks

HANOI, Vietnam — The United States has condemned Vietnam’s recent conviction of nine democracy activists, the arrest of a writer and the expulsion of Buddhist monks from a monastery where they practiced the teachings of a renowned Zen master.

Zen master decries Vietnam’s treatment of monks; intellectuals call for investigation

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — A renowned Buddhist teacher has decried the eviction of his followers from a monastery in southern Vietnam, and Vietnamese intellectuals have issued a petition to support them, an unusual move in this communist country where free speech is restricted.

Iowa author who hounded military for details of son’s Vietnam death, berated Schwarzkopf dies

LA PORTE CITY, Iowa — Peg Mullen, an author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son’s death in Vietnam, has died. She was 92.

Tens of thousands evacuated as new typhoon bears down on storm-hit Philippines

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos braced Friday to be whipped by powerful winds and pelted with rain from a second typhoon in eight days, fleeing by the tens of thousands from low-lying areas and suspending cleanup operations in the flooded capital.

Thousands evacuated as new typhoon bears down on Philippines

Thousands evacuated ahead of Philippine storm

Philippines begins evacuations as second storm in a week approaches

MANILA, 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.

Sodden Philippines begins evacuations ahead of another storm as toll from last one tops 350

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines began evacuating a province near Manila on Thursday ahead of a looming typhoon, as rain falling on the saturated capital added to the misery of victims of recent floods and stoked fears of another disaster.

Buddhists: Vietnamese police try to oust famed monk’s followers from second temple

HANOI, Vietnam — Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher who were forced out of a Vietnamese monastery over the weekend have taken refuge at a nearby pagoda, but they say they have once again been surrounded by police.

Sodden Philippines readies for another storm as toll from the last one rises

MANILA, Philippines — Asia had little respite Thursday from an already brutal storm season, with warnings the next tempest was en route to the Philippines while three nations counted their dead from the previous typhoon, with the toll reaching 386.

Typhoon Ketsana kills more than 360 in path of destruction across Southeast Asia

MANILA, Philippines — A new typhoon gathered strength Thursday off the Philippines while nearly 700,000 people still sought help in badly stretched relief centers from massive flooding caused by Ketsana, one of the region’s most destructive storms in years.