Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China have been evacuated and flights and trains cancelled as a result of Typhoon Wipha. The China Meteorological Administration issued an orange typhoon warning, the second highest level in the four-tier system, on Sunday, expecting Wipha to make landfall between Zhuhai and Zhanjiang in Guangdong province on Sunday…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. The No 1 typhoon warning signal issued in the early hours of Wednesday will remain in effect throughout the day, the Hong…
China has created an underwater data centre with enough computing power to support 7,000 conversations with DeepSeek per second, according to state media. A new data centre capsule was added to an existing energy efficient data processing cluster near China’s southernmost Hainan island on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV said. The addition boosted the computing power…
Hong Kong should brace for another strong storm early this week, the city’s forecaster has said shortly after cancelling the No 1 warning signal for Typhoon Yinxing on Sunday. But another No 1 warning signal was expected to be issued between late Monday and early Tuesday as Severe Tropical Storm Toraji entered within 800km of…
The Chinese navy’s two active aircraft carriers – the Liaoning and the Shandong – have completed their first dual carrier exercises in the South China Sea, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The report did not give details of the drills, but it included footage showing multiple J-15 fighter jets taking off from the Liaoning,…
The Hong Kong Observatory is expected to issue the No 1 standby signal between Thursday and Friday as Tropical Cyclone Trami gradually intensifies and edges closer to the city. The forecaster said on Tuesday that the tropical cyclone to the east of the Philippines will enter within 800km of Hong Kong later on Thursday to…
A photograph taken when Typhoon Yagi hit southern China in September was edited and shared with a false claim that it showed underwear flying in the wind as another cyclone, Krathon, hit Taiwan in October. The original picture — which did not include the airborne undergarment — was taken on China’s Hainan island. “Flying underpants…