Filipino workers bring sacks of vegetables across a mountain to avoid massive landslides in Tublay town, Benguet province, northern Philippines on Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009. The market prices of vegetables and flowers have been rising in Manila and nearby provinces after massive flooding and landslides brought by back to back typhoons destroyed wide swaths of farmlands and road networks in the mountainous northern Philippines. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Aaron Favila)

HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam evacuated some 30,000 people along its northern coast as Tropical Storm Parma approached after leaving more than 300 people dead in the Philippines and China.

The government's National Weather Forecast Center says the storm was expected to be downgraded to a tropical depression as it moves along the coastline of northern provinces Wednesday evening.

Rains have been reported in the region, but it's unlikely to unleash major flooding.

Parma killed 375 people and left 48 others missing when it hit the Philippines earlier this month. The system roared back and forth for a week before moving to southern China's Hainan islands earlier this week killing three people there.

In the eastern Philippines, authorities moved about 900 people to safety in Albay province after heavy rains triggered floods and unleashed mud, rocks and boulders from Mayon volcano.

The rains eased by midday Wednesday but officials suspended elementary and high school classes throughout the province as a precaution, according to disaster co-ordinating officer Cedric Daep.

Two successive storms since Sept. 26 have killed more than 700 people in the northern Philippines.