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Tokyo (VNA) – Two Vietnamese interns have gone missing after Super Typhoon Haishen swept through Kyushu Island, southwest of Japan, on early September 7, the Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka prefecture confirmed. The interns were working at the Aioigumi Joint Stock Company in Miyazaki prefecture, located on Kyushu Island. Prior to the landing of Haishen, concerned that the two interns’ accommodation near the company might be unsafe in the storm, the director suggested them to take shelter at his house, which was also the firm’s office and had stronger structure. However, the Consulate General said, the powerful typhoon triggered a landslide on a mountain there, making this house collapse into the bank of a nearby river. The two Vietnamese interns, together with the director’s wife and child, went missing as a result. Meanwhile, the director was injured and hospitalised. Japanese authorities are searching for the missing. Vietnamese Consul General in … [Read more...] about Two Vietnamese interns in Japan go missing in Typhoon Haishen

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The Vietnam Consulate General in Fukouka had earlier issued warnings about Super Typhoon Haishen for the Vietnamese community on its website, as well as on websites and social media pages of Vietnamese organizations and associations in the region. … [Read more...] about Search ongoing for two Vietnamese interns after typhoon hits Japan

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