HANOI, Vietnam (November 2, 2009)--Coastal areas of Vietnam have been evacuated ahead of Tropical Storm Mirinae, which battered the Philippines as a typhoon, leaving 20 people dead.

The storm was expected to strike Vietnam's central coast sometime Monday afternoon.

Vietnamese authorities evacuated 20,000 people from coastal provinces, far fewer than they moved in advance of Typhoon Ketsana, which slammed Vietnam in September, killing 160 people.

Light rain was reported in the area Monday morning.

Both Vietnam and the Philippines are still recovering from Ketsana, which produced the worst flooding in the Philippine capital, Manila, in 40 years.

Ketsana and two later storms killed more than 900 in the Philippines.

Some 87,000 people who fled the storms were still living in temporary shelters when Mirinae struck.