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After typhoon 🌀 Yagi in 2024, the north of #Vietnam faced yet another unprecedented storm. #climatechange
People take hours and hours to get to their families, they swim, the strand.

As soon as it rains, Hanoi traffic turns to absolute chaos 🫥💀☠️

Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybe

UN cybercrime treaty signed in Hanoi despite security, privacy concerns
Countries meeting in Vietnam vow mutual help to collect data, extradite suspects

US to attend UN cybercrime treaty signing in Hanoi despite industry concerns https://therecord.media/cybercrime-treaty-signing-hanoi

Exasperation with the United States has been building in Vietnam.
Blow by blow, it has risen with the elimination of American aid for clean energy and H.I.V. prevention,
up-and-down tariffs,
indifference to requests for a leader-to-leader meeting,
a Trump family golf development near Hanoi that has enraged local residents,
and surprises like the new tax on U.S. imports of furniture
— one of Vietnam’s priority industries for growth.
It has been 50 ye…

Is the U.S. Losing in Vietnam? Russia, North Korea and China Are Gaining.
U.S. allies worry that American volatility and Russian outreach and arms sales, in particular, are driving Vietnam into a new phase.

It’s been three months since we left #Vietnam. I miss my dear vegan Phở from Kiez Hanoi. The stolls, ride, life.
In other news, the North is still fighting the floods and rain from 10 days ago. Read more and click through the impact

😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-floods-record-rainfall-3492e2748c8504392943f21b5df5079…

Record rainfall causes major flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient sites
Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An. By late Monday, Hue saw record rainfall of 42 inches within 24 hours. By Tuesday morning, water levels in Hue's Perfume River rose to 15 feet. The ancient town of Hoi An experienced waist-deep floods, leading to tourist evacuations by boat. The floods have disrupted train routes between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. About 1,000 people in rural areas are isolated due to flo…

Vietnam evacuates hundreds of thousands as typhoon Kajiki nears landfall https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/vietnam-evacuates-hundreds-of-thousands-as-typhoon-kajiki-nears-landfall/
Weather trac…

Vietnam evacuates hundreds of thousands as typhoon Kajiki nears landfall
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and closed schools and airports as it braces for Typhoon Kajiki, its strongest storm of the year so far. Forecasters said the typhoon had winds of up to 166 kilometers (103 miles) per hour at 10 a.m. Monday but is expected to weaken […]

Groups of finite type: classification and structural properties
Santiago Radi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03927 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03927

Groups of finite type: classification and structural properties
Groups of finite type (also called finitely constrained groups), introduced by Grigorchuk, are known to be the closure of regular branch groups. This article explores many of their properties. Firstly, we prove that being finitely generated, just-infinite and strongly complete are equivalent in a vast family of groups of finite type. As a consequence, we prove that the closure of the Hanoi towers group on 3 pegs is just-infinite although the group itself is not. Secondly, we improve the alg…

US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty https://therecord.media/us-declines-signing-cybercrime-treaty