 Our flight's been cancelled, so now we're trying to find accommodation in Sydney. Then we'll have to try and get a flight home somehow, somewhere, sometime. Don't know. To Southeast Asia, where Vietnam has announced the death of Nguyen Phuong Chuang. The 80-year-old was the leader of the ruling Communist Party. The announcement came just a day after Vietnam's president, Tho Lum, took over Mr Chuang's duties. The BBC's Mickey Bristow explains.