Vietnam said on Sunday it is evacuating over 3,00,000 people and has cancelled more than a dozen domestic flights as Typhoon Kajiki approaches, with landfall expected on Monday. Typhoon Kajiki was generating winds of up to 166 kph (103 mph) as it neared Vietnam’s central coast and was expected to strengthen before making landfall on…
Vietnam plans to evacuate more than half a million people and has ordered boats to stay ashore, while the southern Chinese city of Sanya closed businesses and public transport on Sunday as the two countries braced for an intensifying Typhoon Kajiki. The storm, packing winds of up to 149 kph (93 mph), was about 500…
Internet users in China have heaped praise on a secondary school student who carried an injured classmate on his back to escape an earthquake. Netizens have also given his school a pat on the back for giving the student an ample reward for his heroics. The quake, estimated to be of a magnitude of 4.6,…
The Chinese embassy in Syria urged its citizens to leave the Middle Eastern nation “as soon as possible” as the country’s decade-long civil war reignited and anti-government militants captured more cities. “At present, the war in northwestern Syria is growing tense, and the security situation in Syria is further deteriorating,” the embassy said in a…