{"id":149005,"date":"2025-11-23T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149005\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:44:10","slug":"vietnam-flooding-more-than-50-dead-dozens-missing-after-week-of-severe-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149005\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam flooding: More than 50 dead, dozens missing after week of severe floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Rescuers were still plucking people from treetops and the roofs of homes as floodwaters receded there on Friday, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Multiple highways remained impassable on Saturday and 300,000 people were without power, after a blackout that initially affected more than a million, the Environment Ministry added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Natural disasters have left 279 people dead or missing in Vietnam and caused more than US$2 billion ($3.5b) in damage between January and October, according to the national statistics office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The Southeast Asian nation is prone to heavy rain between June and September, but scientists have identified a pattern of human-driven climate change making extreme weather more frequent and destructive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers were still plucking people from treetops and the roofs of homes as floodwaters receded there on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[13212,74,29893,690,6179,3463,6183,273,1866,19876,3092,305,6559,5840,6501,130,111,139,69,1118,384,49645,51468,3048,1534,147,2848,6100,131,2317,686,540],"class_list":["post-149005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-13212","tag-after","tag-authorities","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-dozen","tag-dozens","tag-environment","tag-find","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-have","tag-heavy","tag-least","tag-missing","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-people","tag-raced","tag-rescuers","tag-said","tag-saturday","tag-science","tag-severe","tag-still","tag-than","tag-vietnam","tag-week","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}