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                    [Title] => More than 200 new species found in Mekong region — WWF
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                    [Title] => In Vietnam, Kerry takes on a new enemy
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Along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta where he once patrolled for communist insurgents on a naval gunboat, Secretary of State John Kerry turned his sights yesterday on a new enemy: climate change.

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Forty-five years ago, as the Vietnam war raged on, Army Spc. Chuck Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of combat serving in the Mekong Delta — both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.

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Vietnamese officials say flooding has killed 100 people and left two others missing — mostly in southern Vietnam, which is suffering its worst floods in a decade.

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Vietnamese officials say some of the country's worst flooding in a decade has killed 88 people and left four others missing in the central and southern regions.

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 Floods in the Mekong delta killed at least 69 people, inundated 137,300 houses and 22,955 hectare of rice paddies, and eroded over 1,560 km of dykes, as of Tuesday, according to official data released here Thursday.

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 It took only a second for the murky floodwaters swamping parts of Asia to swallow Nguyen Phuoc Hien's baby. His 3-year-old daughter had been playing happily while her aunt studied, but somehow, the girl slipped quietly outside the family home deep in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta.

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Vietnam's government says the death toll from the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has climbed to 34 people, mostly children.

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The government said the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has killed 11 people, including five children, over the past week in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta.

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A tropical storm barreled toward Vietnam Friday, forcing 20,000 people to be evacuated, as Philippines braced for a new typhoon and swathes of India, Thailand, Pakistan and China reeled under floods after some of the wildest weather to hit Asia this summer.

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                    [Title] => In Vietnam, Kerry takes on a new enemy
                    [Summary] => 

Along the winding muddy waters of the Mekong Delta where he once patrolled for communist insurgents on a naval gunboat, Secretary of State John Kerry turned his sights yesterday on a new enemy: climate change.

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Forty-five years ago, as the Vietnam war raged on, Army Spc. Chuck Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of combat serving in the Mekong Delta — both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-02 15:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1468725 [AuthorName] => Lolita C. Baldor [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 745943 [Title] => Death toll from Vietnam floods climbs to 100 [Summary] =>

Vietnamese officials say flooding has killed 100 people and left two others missing — mostly in southern Vietnam, which is suffering its worst floods in a decade.

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Vietnamese officials say some of the country's worst flooding in a decade has killed 88 people and left four others missing in the central and southern regions.

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 Floods in the Mekong delta killed at least 69 people, inundated 137,300 houses and 22,955 hectare of rice paddies, and eroded over 1,560 km of dykes, as of Tuesday, according to official data released here Thursday.

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 It took only a second for the murky floodwaters swamping parts of Asia to swallow Nguyen Phuoc Hien's baby. His 3-year-old daughter had been playing happily while her aunt studied, but somehow, the girl slipped quietly outside the family home deep in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta.

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Vietnam's government says the death toll from the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has climbed to 34 people, mostly children.

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The government said the worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade has killed 11 people, including five children, over the past week in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta.

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A tropical storm barreled toward Vietnam Friday, forcing 20,000 people to be evacuated, as Philippines braced for a new typhoon and swathes of India, Thailand, Pakistan and China reeled under floods after some of the wildest weather to hit Asia this summer.

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