Storm to bring heavy rain to Northeast

Monks and lay disciples deliver relief goods to flood victims in Muang district, Khon Kaen, on Wednesday. (Photo: Chakkrapan Natanri)

Heavy rain is expected in the Northeast from Friday as a tropical storm moves westward into central Vietnam.

Chomparee Chompurat, director-general of the meteorological department, said a depression over the South China Sea would become a tropical storm and enter central Vietnam on either Friday or Saturday.