Typhoon Ketsana has killed 162 in Vietnam while hundreds more have been injured or made homeless, local officials said on Sunday. The Red Cross has launched an appeal to help more than 200,000 of the neediest storm victims.
Typhoon Ketsana has killed 86 people in Vietnam and at least 277 people in Philippines, according to government officials, as the Southeast Asian region struggled to cope with the havoc wrought by landslides and rising flood waters.
Typhoon Ketsana has killed at least 49 people and caused widespread floods in Vietnam and Cambodia, adding to the 246 deaths in the Philippines. The storm is now making its way towards Laos.
Typhoon Ketsana has killed at least 31 people in Vietnam, adding to the 246 known to have died in the Philippines when Ketsana, then a weaker tropical storm, devastated Manila at the weekend.
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the path of Typhoon Ketsana as it makes its way to central Vietnam. The storm has unleashed deadly floods in the Philippines, killing at least 240 and displacing hundreds of thousands.
Former US lieutenant William Calley on Wednesday publicly apologised for his role in the massacre of hundreds of unarmed women, children and old men in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1968. Calley was the only soldier convicted for the killings.
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Former Defence Secretary Robert McNamara died on Monday, aged 93. He will be remembered most as a leading architect of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Dutch photographer Hugh Van Es (left in picture) died of a brain haemorrhage, aged 67. His photograph showing a CIA helicopter airlifting US soldiers out of Saigon in 1975 became an icon for the end of the Vietnam War and its ultimate failure.
A Vietnamese man has died from bird flu, a medical official reported on Friday. The death is the second such case in Vietnam this year, once again raising fears among experts of the potential for a devastating pandemic.
