Overview

• Shenzhen plans to relocate about 400,000 residents from low-lying and coastal zones, with shelter preparations underway.
• Guangdong elevates its disaster alert to the top Level 1 and orders the suspension of work, school, transport and much industrial activity across roughly a dozen southern cities.
• Hong Kong prepares to hoist the T8 signal on Tuesday with widespread closures and the airport warning of major disruption as Cathay Pacific expects to cancel more than 500 flights.
• In Taiwan’s Hualien county, a landslide-formed barrier lake failed, flooding a town, trapping about 263 people and leaving two missing as rescue teams worked to reach cut-off areas.
• The storm earlier crossed the northern Philippines with sustained winds near 215 km/h and gusts up to 295 km/h, prompting more than 10,000 evacuations and the closure of schools and government offices.