The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, dozens are feared dead after fire swept through a shopping centre in Davao, a city already reeling from a tropical storm. Authorities in Vietnam have prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast as a typhoon approached after it battered the Philippines. Typhoon Tembin is expected to slam into Vietnam late on Monday after hitting the Philippines just before Christmas.