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Typhoon Hato flooded and devastated the bustling city of Macau on Wednesday where at least nine people were killed. They city was largely unprepared for the signal number 10 typhoon. Macau’s government rated Hato only a signal 3 typhoon, although Hong Kong had earlier rated it as signal number 10. Many residents and tourists complained that the government was woefully unprepared for Typhoon Hato and its destructive winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph). […]
by Aaron Tam / Anthony Wallace Agence France Presse Macau, Macau (AFP) — The Chinese army on Friday joined relief efforts in Macau where at least nine people are now known to have died when a huge typhoon swept through the gambling hub. Around 48 hours after Severe Typhoon Hato smashed into southern China, worst-hit Macau was still picking up the pieces, with the enclave’s government facing recriminations over its lack of preparation. The government […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) – Thailand’s top court will rule later Friday whether ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra is guilty of criminal negligence, a verdict that could see her jailed and risks riling her family’s significant support base. Thailand’s first female prime minister, toppled by a military coup in 2014, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted and a life ban from politics. That outcome would be a heavy blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty, […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region’s worst monsoon disaster in recent years. Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where authorities say a total of 1,009 bodies have been recovered since August 10 when intense rainfall started falling. Twenty-six bodies were found Wednesday […]
by Elaine Yu Agence France Presse MACAU, Macau (AFP) — The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China, blacking out Macau’s mega-casinos and battering Hong Kong’s skyscrapers. Eight died in the gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave’s famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators. […]
GUANGDONG Province, China (CCTV) — Powerful typhoon Hato, a maximum category 10 storm, wreaked havoc in the southern coast of south China’s Guangdong Province after it made landfall in the province’s Zhuhai City on Wednesday. Hato, the 13th typhoon this year, brought hurricane-force winds and downpours to the region it swept across. Videos recorded in the worst-hit cities including Zhuhai and Zhongshan show pedestrians being blown off their feet, public facilities such as mail box, […]
by Aaron Tam. Laura Mannering and Elaine Yu Agence France-Presse HONG KONG, China – Typhoon Hato ripped a path of destruction across southern China on Wednesday, killing 10 people after battering Hong Kong skyscrapers, flooding streets and forcing thousands to flee to shelters. The storm had raised Hong Kong’s most severe Typhoon 10 warning, only the third time a storm of this power has pounded the financial hub in the past 20 years. Five people were killed in […]
Hong Kong raises its highest storm warning as Severe Typhoon Hato brings the city to a standstill, shutting down the stock market and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights as heavy rain and winds pummel the territory (Video courtesy AFPTV)
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) — The United States Navy will in the coming hours relieve the three-star admiral Joseph Aucoin who commands its seventh fleet following a series of collisions in Asia, a US official told Reuters late on Tuesday (August 22), speaking on condition of anonymity. US Navy and Marine Corps divers are still trying to find 10 missing sailors from the US guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain, which collided with a merchant vessel […]
Typhoon Hato, which was known as “Isang” when it was still affecting the country, had already left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), but is now wreaking havoc in Hong Kong, bringing the city to a standstill as heavy rains and winds pummelled the territory. Hong Kong’s weather observatory even raised the storm warning to the city’s maximum Typhoon 10 signal — meaning hurricane force winds are expected — at 9:10 am (0110 GMT). It […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered more production of rocket engines and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nosecones, Pyongyang state media said Wednesday. Tensions over the North’s weapons programs have mounted this year and it carried out two ICBM tests last month, overseen by Kim, that apparently brought most of the United States within range. A series of threats followed from both sides, and while the rhetoric has since […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea conducted drills simulating bomb and poisonous gas attacks at a subway station on Tuesday (August 22) in Seoul. They are part of yearly contingency drills known as the “Ulchi Exercises”, amid mounting tension over North Korea’s weapons programs. About 200 personnel from the Seoul Metro, police, military, fire department, local government as well as about 60 citizens participated in the exercise at the Sadang subway station. The country’s four-day […]
