Densely populated Vietnam is vulnerable to typhoons roaring in across the South China Sea. The U.S. military’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) said the storm had gathered strength as it approached Vietnam, upgrading it to a Category 4. Forecasters said Vietnam's low-lying commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City could be hit by flooding.

Typhoon Kalmaegi in Vietnam has exposed a centuries-old shipwreck on Hoi An beach.Initially discovered in 2023, the 57-foot vessel, whose heavy wood-ribbed hull survived hundreds of years of rough seas,

Vietnam evacuated thousands of people from coastal areas as Typhoon Kalmaegi, already among the world's deadliest cyclones this year, closed in on the country's storm-battered central belt on Thursday.

Three men swept far from Vietnam's coast by Typhoon Kalmaegi have been plucked safely from the surf after drifting helplessly for more than 40 hours, a rescuer and the wife of one of the survivors said on Monday.

Vietnam was rushing to ensure more than half a million people were out of harm's way on Tuesday, ahead of the arrival of a powerful typhoon set to dump more heavy rain on a central region devastated by weeks of intense weather.

Vietnam is rethinking how it copes with floods after a year of relentless storms has collapsed hillsides and turned streets into rivers.