Chinese authorities will cancel flights and ferries in Hainan on Saturday night before Typhoon Matmo hits the southern province, likely disrupting a peak holiday travel period for the resort island. All flights to and from the provincial capital Haikou’s international airport are expected to be cancelled from 11 p.m. (1500 GMT), the official Xinhua news…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong is bracing for its fourth storm in five weeks, with one forecast to move close to the city this weekend, hot on the heels of Super Typhoon Ragasa, which brought life to…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong is bracing for its fourth storm in five weeks, with a typhoon forecast to move close to the city this weekend, hot on the heels of Super Typhoon Ragasa which brought life…
Some air travellers took their last chance to fly out of Hong Kong at 6pm on Tuesday before most airlines suspended flights due to the approaching Super Typhoon Ragasa, while others remained stuck at the airport and planned to stay overnight. The Airport Authority said it handled 600 scheduled flights on Tuesday, about half of…
A woman and her five-year-old son were hospitalised in intensive care on Tuesday after strong waves swept them into the sea at a Hong Kong waterfront during the No 8 signal for Super Typhoon Ragasa. The family of four, including the 40-year-old father and nine-year-old daughter, had gone to the breakwater at Ka Yip Street…
As Super Typhoon Ragasa pummelled Hong Kong on Wednesday, some brave restaurants kept their doors open for hungry Hongkongers. Despite the Hong Kong Observatory maintaining its highest-level No 10 warning in the morning for the year’s most powerful storm, before lowering it to No 8 at lunchtime, many residents braved gale-force winds and heavy downpours…
Hong Kong is gradually returning to normality after Super Typhoon Ragasa paralysed the city for nearly two days, with authorities racing to clear 1,200 toppled trees and a backlog of 1,000 flights that affected 140,000 passengers. The deadly super typhoon, which triggered the highest-level No 10 hurricane warning for nearly 11 hours, edged as close…
From slippers and sanitary towels to diapers and potty pads, Hongkongers showed off their creative skills – and humour – in coping with water seepage and rattling windows as Super Typhoon Ragasa battered the city. Well-schooled from their previous experiences with super typhoons, residents on Wednesday took to social media to share their best tips…
Hong Kong’s bankers and traders hunkered down at home or booked hotels near their offices as Super Typhoon Ragasa descended on the Asian financial hub. The big international banks, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC Holdings, told most employees to work from home before the typhoon unleashed a deluge of rain and sustained winds…
Zijin Gold International has delayed the closing of its US$3.2 billion initial public offering (IPO) – the second-largest in Hong Kong this year – to Thursday noon, a day later than previously scheduled, because of the impact of Super Typhoon Ragasa. “As there is a tropical cyclone warning signal No 8 or above in force,…