Super Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall in the north of the Philippines on Sunday evening, killing at least two people and destroying about a thousand houses. The authorities had preemptively evacuated 1.

Fung-wong is expected to come closest to Hong Kong later on Tuesday into the night, skirting more than 400km to the east of the city, forecaster says.

Typhoon Uwan (international name Fung-Wong) has further intensified as it moves east of Eastern Visayas, the weather bureau said Saturday. In its 5 a.m. bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said the center of Uwan

Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall on the main island of Luzon, prompting the evacuation of more than one million people, just days after an earlier storm killed over 200.