{"id":42315,"date":"2024-09-28T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=42315"},"modified":"2024-09-28T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:53:30","slug":"vietnam-estimates-damages-of-3-31-bln-from-typhoon-yagi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=42315","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam estimates damages of $3.31 bln from Typhoon Yagi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HANOI, Sept 28  &#8211; Asia&#8217;s strongest storm this year, Typhoon Yagi, caused damages estimated at 81.5 trillion dong ($3.31 billion) across northern Vietnam, or twice as much as previous estimates, state media said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The typhoon, which killed 299 with 34 missing, devastated export-oriented industrial hubs, destroying factories and facilities, besides flooding farmland, damaging homes, and tearing up a bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The total economic damage is initially estimated at over 81.5 trillion dong, with most damage triggered by landslides and flash floods,&#8221; state-run Vietnam News Agency quoted Agriculture Minister Le Minh Hoan as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure exceeds a preliminary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/asia\/vietnam-says-2024-gdp-may-decline-015-due-typhoon-yagis-impact-2024-09-15\/\">estimate<\/a>&nbsp;of $1.6 billion made this month by the planning ministry that threatened to chip 0.15 percentage point from a forecast for economic growth of 6.8% to 7% this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hoan urged authorities to help people resume production while ensuring supplies and holding down prices, as farm and agricultural land were among the areas hit hardest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Live pig prices in Vietnam have risen steadily since Typhoon Yagi and subsequent flooding affected several pig farms, Reuters has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, rating agency S&amp;P Global said Vietnamese banks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) HANOI, Sept 28 &#8211; Asia&#8217;s strongest storm this year, Typhoon Yagi, caused damages estimated at 81.5 trillion dong ($3.31 billion) across northern Vietnam, or twice as much as previous estimates, state media said on Saturday. The typhoon, which killed 299 with 34 missing, devastated export-oriented industrial hubs, destroying factories and facilities, besides flooding farmland, damaging homes, and tearing up a bridge. &#8220;The total economic damage is initially estimated at over 81.5 trillion dong, with most damage triggered by landslides and flash floods,&#8221; state-run Vietnam News Agency quoted Agriculture Minister Le Minh Hoan as saying. The figure exceeds a preliminary&nbsp;estimate&nbsp;of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42317,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42315\/revisions\/42317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}