The country has raised a fresh weather alert days after more than 100 people were killed by the worst storm of the year.

The Philippines raised a fresh weather alert on Monday, days more than 100 people were killed by the worst storm of the year.Nearly a million people are still sheltering at evacuation centres or with relatives after losing their homes or being driven out by floodwaters brought by Severe Tropical Storm Trami, which struck from Oct. 22.Now the national weather agency says Tropical Storm Kong-rey will bring heavy rain and severe wind to land in coming hours, and cause rough seas off the east coast.Kong-rey will strengthen into a typhoon by Tuesday and pass close to small Philippine islands in the north as early as Wednesday, the weather service said in a bulletin.The lowest of a five-stage storm alert is in place on the country's northeast coast.Trami, by contrast, struck some of the country's most populous areas.The government's disaster agency put the death toll from Trami at 116, with 39 missing."Considering the current movement, a further westward shift in forecast track is not ruled out," it said of the latest storm, which would bring it closer to the country than earlier forecast.It expects Kong-rey to smash into Taiwan at typhoon strength early Friday.About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the Philippines or its surrounding waters each year, damaging homes and infrastructure and killing dozens of people.

Tropical Storm Trami has killed at least 126 and displaced 500,000 due to flooding and landslides in the northern Philippines Thursday and Friday.

Almost 130 are dead or missing in the Philippines, the AP reported, as Tropical Storm Trami hit Vietnam but threatened to make a U-turn.

Tropical Storm Trami made landfall in Vietnam on Sunday, days after causing widespread flooding and leaving at least 80 people dead in the Philippines, officials said. Trami reached land near the central Vietnamese city of Danang on Sunday.