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The death toll from landslides and floods caused by Typhoon Yutu in the Philippines rises to 15 people. One man died in Hong Kong, China.
2018-11-1

Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong), one of the strongest in the history of the Philippines, kills at least 59 people. The typhoon struck also Hong Kong, injuring more than 200 people while four persons died in China. A woman died in Taiwan after being swept out to sea.
2018-09-15

Typhoon Kalmaegi sweeps past Hong Kong after causing six deaths in the Philippines on Saturday.
2014-09-16

Hong Kong arrests an employer for abusing an Indonesian maid which resulted in protests by migrant workers from Indonesia and the Philippines in the Chinese territory.
2014-01-20

At least 25 people are dead in Hong Kong and southern China after Typhoon Usagi passes through with the storm having killed eight people in the Philippines.
2013-09-23

Typhoon Usagi hits the northern Philippines causing flooding and landslides and disrupting transport, communications and power supplies.
2013-09-21

The Philippines evacuates coastal villages, suspends ferry services and calls in fishing boats as category 5 Typhoon Usagi approaches.
2013-09-20

Representative Ronald Singson of the Philippines is sentenced to 18 months in a Hong Kong jail for cocaine possession.
2011-02-25

Eighty thousand people rally in Hong Kong after last week's fatal tourist coach hijacking hostage crisis in the Philippines.
2010-08-29

A dismissed police inspector hijacks a coach belonging to Hong Thai Travel and its 25 Hong Kong tourists in Manila, the capital of the Philippines in order to demand his reinstatement. He is later shot dead by the police. At least 7 hostages are killed and 2 others severely injured.
2010-08-23