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

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.

He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers case.

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in Vietnam on Thursday after killing at least 114 people and flooding entire towns in the Philippines. More than 260,000 soldiers are on standby for rescue efforts as winds of up to 92mph (149km/h) hit the country's coastline, according to Vietnamese media and the government's online portal.

Vietnam War veterans are finding names of fallen comrades and experiencing emotional healing during visits to the Vietnam Memorial, more than five decades after the war ended.

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When toy giant LEGO decided to open a new $1-billion factory, it picked Vietnam so as to be close to its major markets in Asia. The facility, whose construction was launched last month, will also be the company's first carbon-neutral factory.

Floods set off by record levels of rainfall have inundated a large swath of central Vietnam over the past days, with the UNESCO-listed former imperial capital Hue and Hoi An the worst hit.