Evacuation as Vietnam braces for Typhoon

Floods, landslides claim at least 240 lives in the Philippines

HANOI/MANILA - Authorities in southern Vietnam started to move 1 million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday, as a typhoon approached after battering the Philippines with floods and landslides that killed more than 240 people.

Typhoon Tembin was expected to slam into Vietnam early on Tuesday after bringing misery to the predominantly Christian Philippines just before Christmas.