Maeve Kennedy McKean and her son were last seen in a canoe off Chesapeake Bay in Maryland last week.

Maeve Kennedy McKean and her son were last seen in a canoe off Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

Five Vietnamese sailors were reported missing after a cargo vessel sank off the coast of Aomori prefecture in Japan on February 29, according to a Vietnamese official.

A British tourist has gone missing while swimming off the coast in the central province of Quang Nam on Sunday.

Authorities of the central city of Da Nang are looking for a Canadian who went missing in nearby Son Tra Peninsular.

Six Vietnamese people are missing after a South Korean fishing boat caught fire in waters west of the country’s southern resort island of Jeju on Tuesday.

After three days searching, the authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have recovered the bodies of three young men who went missing when swimming at Ia Grang waterfall in Ia Grai district.

 Heavy downpours and subsequent floods have wreaked havoc in central Vietnam, leading to the deaths of five local residents and the disappearance of four residents, according to the latest report released on December 12.

 MANCHESTER — Police in the United Kingdom say they are growing concerned about the whereabouts of a teenager from Vietnam.

 Guatemala's most violent volcano eruption in more than a century has killed at least 25 people.

 At least 37 people are confirmed to have died in a fire that tore through a shopping centre in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo.

 Hundreds of rescuers are combing wreckage in Southern California for those missing after mudslides that have killed 17.

 Recent heavy rains and flash floods have taken the lives of 26 people and left 15 others missing and 27 injured in the northern mountainous provinces.

 Villagers in China visited what used to be their relatives' homes on Monday to mourn loved ones lost when a landslide swept down a mountain, with little hope of finding anyone alive 

 At least nine people were dead and 28 others went missing after a tour boat with some 170 passengers onboard capsized Sunday afternoon in northwest Colombia.

 Italian rescue workers have found the dead body of a man in the wreckage of the hotel in central Italy that was buried in an avalanche last week, the Italian fire service said on Sunday, with 23 people were still missing

Flooding from heavy rain in North Korea has killed 133 people in its northeast while 395 are missing, with many homes and critical infrastructure destroyed,

 Northern China's Hebei, home to seven of the country's 10 smoggiest cities, has pledged to double up its efforts to tackle hazardous pollution following an environment ministry report accusing the province of failing to rein

 Severe flooding across central and southern China over the past week has killed almost 130 people, damaged more than 1.9 million hectares of crops and led to direct economic losses of more than 38 billion yuan ($5.70 billion),