At least 14 people have died in eastern Taiwan’s Hualien county after a barrier lake overflowed, sending a wall of water into a township, as Typhoon Ragasa hit the region. A worker braves the wind while wading through floodwaters in the Heng Fa Chuen residential area during Super Typhoon Ragasa in Hong Kong, China, on…
On Hong Kong’s Kat O island, 79-year-old Fong Sam-kiu chops wood to feed the outside stove on which she cooks her meals. Nets and pots hang on the walls, reminders of the days when she fished the local waters for sea urchins. “I will never move to the city,” says Fong, whose husband has died…
The release of waste water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the ocean has contributed to strained relations between Japan and Hong Kong. In response to the release, the government moved last August to ban aquatic products from Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama. A year later, the…