Overview

• Taiwan revised its toll to 14 after removing duplicate counts, with deaths tied to a barrier lake overflow in Hualien and 33 people still listed as missing.
• Hong Kong downgraded its warnings and restarted flights and services after the No. 10 signal, with about 100 injuries, more than 1,000 fallen trees and localized flooding reported.
• Ragasa made landfall on Hailing Island near Yangjiang with 144 kph winds, weakened to a tropical storm with roughly 65 kph winds, and pushed west toward Vietnam after a second landfall in Guangxi.
• Guangdong authorities pre-emptively relocated over two million people, reported power outages and extensive treefall, and rolled out relief funding as cleanup accelerated.
• At least 11 deaths were reported in the northern Philippines, including seven fishermen, as the Hong Kong Observatory labeled Ragasa the region’s strongest tropical cyclone this year and Jiangmen logged 241 kph gusts.