13 Sep 2024

Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 13 September 2024
A man wearing a plastic poncho wades through flood waters on a street in Hanoi on September 11, 2024, as heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi brought flooding to northern Vietnam. Residents of Hanoi waded through waist-deep water on September 11 as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the strongest typhoon in decades passed 150, with neighbouring nations also enduring deadly flooding and landslides. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

A man wearing a plastic poncho wades through flood waters on a street in Hanoi. Photo: NHAC NGUYEN / AFP

Typhoon Yagi, which battered southern China, the Philippines and Vietnam may have eased, but residents in Vietnam are grappling with mass flooding, which has swept away buses seen a bridge collapse and triggered the evacuation of thousands.

And in Pakistan a new ride-sharing service that only provides services to women and transgender passengers has been launched. 

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