Hong Kong braces for super typhoon
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Hong Kong International Airport is halting flights on Tuesday as the Asian financial hub braces for one of the strongest super typhoons it's seen in years. Then, would you move back to your hometown for a 25% tax cut? Cyprus is hoping this proposal will tempt some of its diaspora to return. And later, Singaporean shipping company X-Press Feeders refused to pay damages for causing the worst environmental disaster in Sri Lankan history.
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| 0:38.9 | Businesses in Hong Kong have boarded up their windows as a super typhoon blows in. |
| 0:44.2 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning. |
| 0:51.5 | Hong Kong International Airport is halting flights on Tuesday as the Asian financial |
| 0:56.0 | hub braces for one of the strongest super typhoons it's seen in years. Flag carrier Cathay Pacific |
| 1:01.9 | Airways said all flights arriving and departing from Hong Kong will be cancelled from 6pm local time. |
| 1:08.0 | Super Typhoon Ragasa caused major damage to islands in the north of the Philippines. |
| 1:12.3 | Here's the BBC's Jonathan Head. |
| 1:14.2 | There are lots of areas in mountainous Luzon where it has passed the northern tip of that, |
| 1:18.3 | where the heavy rainfall does bring these lethal landslides, but very densely populated there. |
| 1:22.6 | But the eye of the storm really touched the top of the northern part of the Philippines. |
| 1:26.6 | The Bataanus Islands, |
| 1:30.0 | around 24,000 people were evacuated there. |
| 1:35.1 | The real attention now is on the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong and Shenzhen in China, |
| 1:39.6 | where very large numbers of people have been evacuated or being prepared to be evacuated. |
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