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Hong Kong closes schools and businesses as Typhoon Toraji triggers third-highest warning
Hong Kong shut down schools and some businesses after authorities raised the third-highest typhoon warning for Tropical Storm Toraji which passed about 150km south of the city. Toraji is expected ...
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Hong Kong’s First Typhoon Trading Day Tests City’s Brokerages
(Bloomberg) -- A typhoon is brewing over Hong Kong but for the first time in decades, it’s business as usual for the city’s $5.4 trillion stock market. Traders, brokers and money managers ...
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The Last Typhoon at Hong Kong
THE typhoon at Hong Kong of September 1874 is the greatest calamity that has visited the crown colony since its establishment in 1841. In each of the years 1859 and 1865 one of these desolating ...
Hundreds gathered in Hong Kong for the city’s first pyrotechnics drone show
Hundreds have gathered in Hong Kong to watch the city’s first pyrotechnics drone show, as part of a campaign to raise support ...
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AFP photographer’s typhoon image one of Time Magazine’s top ten of 2013
Time Magazine has chosen an image taken by AFP photographer Philippe Lopez of the Philippines typhoon disaster as one of its ...