Vietnam's Phuc Than weather station recorded 206mm of rain in 24 hours from Thursday into Friday, according to the country's National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting as reported by the Guardian, while flooding swept away homes, cut power and destroyed 238 hectares of farmland. [1]

In Muong Than, at least four people were reported dead and four missing after flash flooding early Friday [1], but missing people are not additional deaths and an early village count is not a final national toll.

South Korea's local record is different because a station in Paju, north of Seoul, measured 192.5mm as homes and roads flooded [1], but that station total does not describe rainfall across South Korea, just as Phuc Than's 206mm does not describe all of Vietnam.

The Guardian's weather tracker places these events in one regional account, useful for showing simultaneous heavy rain but dangerous if its local figures are added into a single Asian disaster; the source provides no reconciled evacuation, injury, restoration or final damage ledger for either country, and roads, utilities, farmland and casualties also require their own local clocks.

The required X search timed out without a verified status, so platform accounts of rescue and damage remain unobserved; the July 20 evidence is an early snapshot of two station readings, one village toll and several reported disruptions, later agency records may revise each figure, and until then a continental headline must not manufacture a continental total.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing