Typhoon Bualoi Hits Vietnam, Leaving Death and Destruction in Its Wake Vietnam is reeling after Typhoon Bualoi, the tenth storm of the year, made landfall late Sunday, bringing winds of up to 130 km/h (80 mph). Authorities in three provinces report widespread damage, with thousands of homes and businesses either destroyed or badly damaged. In […]
Typhoon Ragasa Leaves Trail of Destruction Across Asia, Weakens Near Hong Kong HONG KONG – Typhoon Ragasa brought parts of Asia to a grinding halt this week, sweeping through the northern Philippines and Taiwan before striking southern China. At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured as the powerful storm […]
Super Typhoon Ragasa Batters Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southern China A barrier lake in Taiwan’s eastern Hualien County overflowed on Wednesday, sending a wall of water into a nearby town, as heavy rains from Super Typhoon Ragasa lashed the island, the Taiwan fire department reported. Since Monday, Taiwan has been under the outer rim of […]
Typhoon Ragasa Nears Southern China, Hong Kong on High Alert HONG KONG – Typhoon Ragasa, packing powerful winds of up to 220 km/h (137 mph), is moving closer to southern China’s Guangdong province, prompting Hong Kong to brace for its impact, the city’s observatory said on Tuesday. Authorities are preparing to raise the typhoon signal […]
Typhoon Kajiki Slams Vietnam, Leaves Millions Without Power and Streets Flooded HANOI – A powerful typhoon tore through central Vietnam on Monday, unleashing winds of up to 130 km/h (80 mph) that ripped the roofs off thousands of homes and plunged more than 1.6 million people into darkness. Officials confirmed on Tuesday that at least […]
Vietnam Braces for Typhoon as Mass Evacuations Begin HANOI — Vietnam is preparing for its fifth typhoon of the year as the powerful storm churns through the Gulf of Tonkin, whipping up waves nearly 10 meters high and forcing mass evacuations along the country’s coast. Authorities said more than 325,000 residents from five coastal provinces […]
Powerful Typhoon Podul Slams Taiwan With Fierce Winds, Torrential Rains TAIPEI — Taiwan is bracing for the full force of Typhoon Podul, which is packing winds of 155 km/h (96 mph) at its centre and continuing to strengthen, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). Forecasters say the storm is expected to make landfall in […]
Typhoon Co-May Hits China, Thousands Evacuated Shanghai, July 30: A strong typhoon named Co-May hit eastern China on Wednesday morning. It first made landfall in Zhejiang Province around 4:30 am, and it is expected to hit Shanghai later in the evening. Due to heavy rain, the Shanghai Central Weather Office raised the rain alert from […]
Typhoon Co-May, upgraded from a tropical storm overnight, follows days of monsoon rains that have killed at least 12 people and left another eight missing across the archipelago since July 18, according to the national disaster agency. With maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometres (75 miles) per hour, the typhoon was expected to make landfall […]
Around 255,000 people have fled their homes ahead of Super Typhoon Man-yi, which is expected to make landfall later Saturday or early Sunday, becoming the sixth major storm to pummel the archipelago nation in the past month. With wind gusts of up to 230 kilometers per hour (about 140 miles per hour), Man-yi was on […]
