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HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — Social media video footage showed Typhoon Nida damaging houses and tearing down tree branches as it swept through Shek O, a beachside village in Hong Kong on Tuesday (August 2). Twitter user Marianne Bray, a freelance journalist and journalism teacher at Hong Kong University, shared her videos with Reuters, showing strong winds at dawn and damage in the village where she lives. Hong Kong’s first major typhoon this year brought […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hordes of angry passengers stranded after Typhoon Nida pummelled Hong Kong crowded the airport on Tuesday, desperately seeking flights as the city emerges from lockdown while the storm swept across southern China. Hundreds of flights were cancelled, schools and shops shut and the stock market closed for the day as the storm brought violent winds and torrential showers. Gusts of 151 kilometers (93 miles) per hour whipped the city and […]
by Dennis CHONG HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong shut down Tuesday as Typhoon Nida brought violent winds and torrential rain, with hundreds of flights cancelled and the stock market, schools and businesses closed, as the storm headed across southern China. Gusts of 151 kilometers (93 miles) per hour whipped the city and rain lashed down during the night, and authorities warned of floods and landslides. Streets were deserted Tuesday morning as school was […]
by Dennis CHONG HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Southern China hunkered down as it braced for Typhoon Nida to make landfall Tuesday, with the city of Guangzhou issuing its first-ever red storm alert. Those living in the storm’s projected path when it reaches mainland China have been told by the the National Commission for Disaster Reduction to prepare three days’ worth of food and other essentials, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Monday. The […]
