Five dead, hotels facing two-day shutdown after Typhoon Hato knocks out power...
Five people died, at least 153 were injured and two were still missing in Macau on Wednesday night, while the city also endured a power shutdown for several hours, after Typhoon Hato battered the...
View ArticleEvacuation from Tai O village as streets turned to rivers after Typhoon Hato...
Residents of Tai O have been evacuated from the rural fishing village on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island as Typhoon Hato brought severe flooding. According to forecasts by the Hong Kong Observatory, at...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists look to boost Hong Kong beach clean-ups with social media...
A social media-based platform has been set up to coordinate the Hong Kong beach cleaning efforts of different non-profit and environmental groups in a bid to make operations more structured and...
View ArticleHigh tide and new moon: Hong Kong meteorologists reveal the secrets behind...
Hurricane-force winds, a clash with the regular high tide and a new moon helped brew one of the most powerful storms to hit Hong Kong in years, according to meteorologists. As Typhoon Hato skirted the...
View ArticleHong Kong airport scrambles to process flight backlog after Typhoon Hato;...
Hong Kong International Airport was on Wednesday night scrambling to handle a backlog of flights left by Typhoon Hato, operating both its runways through the night instead of one as per normal. The...
View ArticleFlooded homes, shattered windows, a submerged car park and deadly bamboo ......
On the southeastern coast of Hong Kong, Li Kwok-ping and four other family members – armed only with plastic buckets and a dustpan – watched on helplessly as one wave after another crashed through...
View ArticleBattered Hong Kong cleans up after killer Typhoon Hato pounds region
Hong Kong was left picking up the pieces on Wednesday after a battering by the biggest storm in five years, which killed five people in neighbouring Macau and paralysed cities along mainland China’s...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Government Flying Service rescues 39 sailors from vessels...
Air-sea rescuers battled turbulent waters, heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to save 39 sailors from four stranded vessels caught up as Typhoon Hato made itself felt in the seas around Hong Kong on...
View ArticleTwo bodies found in Macau car park raise Typhoon Hato death toll to 12
Macau’s local Typhoon Hato death toll rose to eight on Thursday morning after two more bodies were found in a flooded car park, as residents slammed officials for what they said were slow rescue...
View ArticleHong Kong airport to deal with 150 more flights than usual to clear backlog...
Up to 150 extra flights were expected to come in and out of Hong Kong on Thursday, as the airport battled to get back on track after the disruption brought by Typhoon Hato. Those arrivals were expected...
View ArticleMacau leader apologises, weather chief resigns after worst storm in half...
Macau’s leader on Thursday made a public apology and announced the resignation of the casino hub’s weather chief after the worst storm to hit the former Portuguese enclave in more than half a century...
View ArticleHong Kong scientists make potential HIV treatment breakthrough
University of Hong Kong scientists have discovered an antibody that could treat gut inflammation in HIV patients – a common condition for sufferers that can prove fatal. By blocking the pathway that...
View ArticleMacau observatory chief resigns as government slammed for response to deadly...
Macau’s weather forecasting chief has resigned amid growing criticism against the government’s poor response to the deadly typhoon on Wednesday, where eight people were killed and more than 200 injured...
View ArticleHoles in data for hippo teeth imports point to illegal trade in Hong Kong,...
Hong Kong authorities must do more to stamp out the illegal trade in endangered species by more heavily scrutinising documentation for imports, a study by the University of Hong Kong found. Researchers...
View ArticleLamborghini and 20 other vehicles found covered in mud, trash and live fish...
An orange Lamborghini and 20 other vehicles were found covered with mud, trash and live sea basses after an underground car park was flooded during Typhoon Hato. It took three service vehicles more...
View ArticleNew storm brewing could hit Hong Kong and Macau early next week
Typhoon-devastated Macau woke to more bad news on Friday as another body found in a flooded car park brought the city’s death toll to nine, even as weather authorities warned of a new storm on the...
View ArticleUp to 10 people feared trapped in flooded underground car parks after Typhoon...
Macau authorities on Friday night said they were carrying out recovery work at three flooded underground car parks amid fears that up to 10 people could have been trapped inside by the worst storm to...
View ArticleNo water, rubbish floating in the streets, and another storm on the way:...
Thousands of Macau residents were facing a second day of water shortages on Friday as the casino hub tried to get back on its feet after the onslaught of Typhoon Hato. Flooded streets filled with...
View ArticleCost to casinos may have been key to Macau’s late warning on Typhoon Hato
Macau meteorological officials who failed to predict the ferocity with which deadly Typhoon Hato would hit the gaming hub may have held off raising the highest storm warning because of the financial...
View ArticleWelcome to Hong Kong, the world’s dumping ground for electronic waste
Down a dead end road in the New Territories area of Kong Nga Po, a stone’s throw from pig pens, fish ponds and an organic farm, a pile of still-smoking ash spills from a Maersk container. A worker...
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