Hundreds of people are missing after a cruise ship carrying more than 450 people capsized in a storm on the Yangtze River in China's southern Hubei province, says state media.

 By Friday morning, rescuers have rescued three passengers on board a tug boat that sank on the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday, and are still searching for more than 20 missing.

Indonesian officials have expanded their search area as the hunt for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 goes on.

VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh made an urgent phone call to Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi yesterday, affirming that Viet Nam was willing to join search and rescue 

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has announced plans to overhaul the country's municipal police forces after the disappearance of 43 students.

 Two boats sank this weekend, leaving one person dead and 10 missing.

 Two foreign tourists are still missing after a boat sank off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Saturday.

 Malaysia's state investment firm Khazanah Nasional has proposed a "complete overhaul" of troubled national carrier Malaysia Airlines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese man has spent the past 20 years searching for his daughter who went missing on a summer holiday with her relatives in the Russian city of Sochi in August 1993.

 Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso.

 Teams are focusing on a narrowed search area in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, after more signals were heard earlier this week.

 New analysis of satellite data suggested that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday.

At noon on December 29, while bathing at the 30/4 beach in Can Gio district, Ho Chi Minh City, seven boys of the Nguyen Binh Khiem secondary school, Binh Duong Street, were swept away.

Men jailed for master-minding public disorder; Mine explosion kills student in Quang Binh; Four fishermen missing in ship collision; Ministry inquires into pregnancy deaths; Phu Yen police seize smuggled pangolin

 The death toll from a recent powerful earthquake in central Philippines jumped to 156 while 22 others were still missing, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hit by big waves, a ship carrying 30 people, including an American couple, was sunk in the Soai Rap River, in Can Gio District, with nine people missing.

 Three women who had been missing for years -- two of whom disappeared as teenagers -- were found alive in a house in Cleveland, police in the US state of Ohio said.

In the past five years, there were 1,868 people dead and missing in natural disasters in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the management of boats and fishermen at sea is limited, said Nguyen Xuan Dieu - Deputy Chief of the General Department of Irrigation.

This morning, Jan 1, the civil and military rescue team continued to the search for 13 missing fishermen in the sinking of the ship QB 93 714 TS of fisherman Nguyen Quoc Phong.