{"id":247451,"date":"2025-11-06T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247451\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:24:08","slug":"typhoon-kalmaegi-makes-landfall-in-vietnam-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247451\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in Vietnam &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam already battling deadly floods, with at least 35 killedpublished at 11:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:12 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man wades through a flooded area in Hoi An, following deadly floods in central Vietnam.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7b5fc833-ac4f-4022-96f2-62c96b7ebb85.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of Typhoon Kalmaegi&#8217;s arrival, it&#8217;s worth noting that Vietnam has already been battling with floods and record rains this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burst riverbanks have flooded some of the country&#8217;s most popular tourist spots, including the Unesco-listed city of Hue and historic hotspot Hoi An &#8211; where residents have been pictured navigating the city via wooden boats after the Hoai river overflowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least 35 people have been killed in the deluge, according to a recent statement from the national disaster agency. Vietnam&#8217;s environment ministry also says more than 100,000 homes have been flooded and more than 150 landslides reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to local media reports, PM Pham Minh Chinh held an online meeting to direct the emergency response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We must reach isolated areas and ensure people have food, drinking water, and essential supplies. No one should be left hungry or cold,&#8221; he&#8217;s cited as saying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vietnam already battling deadly floods, with at least 35 killedpublished at 11:12 GMT 11:12 GMT Image source, Reuters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-247451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}