Torrential rain and lightning storms battered Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta on 5 August, causing severe flooding that closed hospitals and schools while turning staircases into rushing waterfalls.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong and nearby high-tech cities in south China’s Pearl River Delta were hit by intense rainfall and nearly 10,000 lightning strikes in just one hour.
Up to 90mm of rain per hour soaked the region, forcing the weather bureau to extend its highest-level 'black' rainstorm warning until mid-afternoon.
Floodwaters inundated Queen Mary Hospital, disrupting emergency services, though drainage teams quickly deployed pumps to ease the flooding.
These storms followed deadly flash floods over the weekend in Guangdong province, which claimed five lives and triggered a massive rescue operation involving more than 1,300 personnel.
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The Trump administration is expected to delay enforcement of a law requiring Chinese tech firm ByteDance to sell or shut down its U.S. operations of TikTok, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday days ahead of a 17 September deadline.
Azerbaijan is preparing to finance a cultural centre, sports school and arts facility in the town of Irpin, near Kyiv, under a draft bilateral agreement.
China is set to intensify its recent push in strategic diplomacy and power projection as it hosts its annual security forum this week amidst heightened regional tensions.
Billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink was back online for most users after a brief outage on Monday, according to tracking website Downdetector.com.
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