Typhoon Matmo hit northern Philippines with 130 kph winds, complicating disaster response to a recent 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Cebu and following storms Bualoi and Super Typhoon Ragasa. Evacuations and school closures followed.

Tropical Storm Matmo is edging closer to the Philippines' most populous region of Luzon, which it is expected to cross Friday.

East Asia is bracing for the most powerful global typhoon so far this year to make landfall with mass evacuations across multiple countries.

MANILA: Typhoon Paolo (international name: Matmo) made landfall in Dinapigue, Isabela, at 9am, the state weather bureau reported Friday (Oct 3)

Thousands of people have been evacuated from northern Philippine villages and schools and offices were closed in the archipelago and neighboring Taiwan as one of the strongest typhoons this year threatens to cause flooding and landslides on its way to southeastern China.

A super typhoon that caused thousands to be evacuated in the Philippines has "slightly" weakened, according to the country's weather bureau. Super typhoon Ragasa made landfall over Panuitan Island, one of the Babuyan Islands in the Philippines' northern ...

A day of significant global developments is underway, as a political crisis in France reaches its breaking point, a powerful typhoon barrels across the Philippines, and the world’s largest shipping lines push back against a new Arctic trade route being pioneered by China.

The death toll from Typhoon Bualoi in Vietnam rose above 50, the government said Friday, with more than a dozen people still missing days after the storm triggered widespread flooding.

Schools and flights were canceled across southern China and many businesses were closed ahead of the storm, one of the world’s strongest this year.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has assured the public of its readiness to respond to Typhoon ‘Paolo,’ which has prompted Signal