Top Asian News 3:57 a.m. GMT

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the lure of moving to the city grows even stronger amid climate shocks

CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) — Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung, 11-year-old twins growing up on a rickety houseboat in the Mekong Delta, have dreams. Tran loves K-pop, watches videos at night to learn Korean and would love to visit Seoul. Trung wants to be a singer. But their hopes are “unrealistic,” said Trung: “I know I’ll end up going to the city to try and make a living." Such dreams have a way of dissipating in southern Vietnam's Mekong, one of the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world. For the poor, the future is especially uncertain. A U.N.