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A screen grab from a social media video shows a partially submerged car being carried away by floodwaters after Typhoon Noul brought torrential rain to Puning, Guangdong province, late last month. Photo: Reuters
China’s private sector

South China tech hub’s wet summer puts damper on small business profits

Shenzhen’s wettest July in more than three decades saw foot traffic plummet and also caused severe disruption to airline schedules.

Travel Safety

Blackout at Terracotta Army museum prompts cultural safety review in China

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Science

Beijing’s tree die-off shows hidden risks of rapid underground water recovery

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Video | Funnel cloud spotted in China’s Zhejiang province

The storm is moving deeper into China and is expected to bring heavy rain to northern China.

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Video | Typhoon Dolphin triggers heavy floods in Shanghai

The typhoon is the fourth to make landfall in China since July 3 and is projected to bring 40 per cent more rainfall than last month’s Typhoon Bavi.

Shanghai

Beijing on red alert as Typhoon Dolphin grounds nearly 1,000 flights in Shanghai

The weather system is maintaining its strength as it heads north with rains forecast to grow increasingly stronger over the next three days.

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Mainland China

Chinese boy, 9, missing after being swept away by wave during typhoon’s approach

Rescuers still searching for child, who was taken across a causeway by two adults in Zhejiang when a typhoon warning was already in place.

Video footage shows a family of two adults and two children — frantically sprinting across a stone and cement causeway that connects the mainland to a rocky offshore island. After a colossal wave several metres tall smashed over the path, a nine-year-old boy who has been missing since he was swept away by a giant wave in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

Red alert: Shanghai cancels 80% of flights as Typhoon Dolphin makes landfall

The storm strikes coastal Zhejiang province on Sunday evening, packing heavy winds and disrupting travel across eastern China.

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Hangzhou

Typhoon Dolphin grounds hundreds of flights as it approaches eastern China

Airlines offer free flight changes and cancellations ahead of the storm, which is expected to bring torrential rain to the region.

Mainland China

1,230 times the size of Hong Kong: China deploys drones as Typhoon Dolphin nears

Coastal provinces halt shipping and activities and evacuate fishermen as storm targets Zhejiang and Fujian.

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A satellite image shows Typhoon Dolphin approaching Japan’s Okinawa on August 6, 2026. By Friday morning, it was about 820km from China’s east coast. Photo: CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA/Reuters

Video | Scary ride for children in runaway quad bike

Local authorities said the children turned the ignition key and started the engine while the vehicle was left in gear.

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Video | Qingdao warehouse fire darkens sky

The warehouse in Shandong province belongs to the logistical company XMXYG Superchain.

Mainland China

7 face arrest after Inner Mongolia fatal blast report exposes string of failings

A report into the explosion that killed 10 people said poor maintenance and a lack of proper oversight had contributed to the accident.

Safety in China

China floods: large parts of country on alert as Gansu province death toll rises

Heavy rainfall is expected in many provinces over the coming days, with the authorities braced for the possible arrival of Typhoon Dolphin.

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The aftermath of flash floods in Gansu province. Photo: Xinhua
Mainland China

Southwest China landslide death toll rises to 51 as search and rescue continues

The Chongqing disaster two weeks ago swept away several residential buildings and buried others in gigantic boulders and mud.

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The massive search and recovery operation after the landslide in Chongqing province, southwest China is continuing. Photo: Xinhua
From our archives

On This Day | 1976 earthquake in China’s Tangshan kills over 240,000 people – SCMP archive

On this day 50 years ago, the deadliest earthquake in recorded history razed the mining town of Tangshan in China’s Hebei province.

Mainland China

China turns to public for help in deadly dam collapse probe after Typhoon Maysak

At least 26 people are known to have died in the disaster which occurred earlier this month in Guangxi amid torrential rainfall.

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Video | Ten campers killed by flash flood in northwest China

China Central Television identified the location of the flooding as the Shuangshimen Scenic Area, southwest of Beijing Alt option: The flooding took place in the Shuangshimen Scenic Area, a popular camping spot southwest of Beijing.

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‘Farewell, hero’: China volunteer dies of heart failure after helping flood victims

Local reports reveal that Dang’s very last message to his father expressed his eager hope of returning to work soon.

Mainland China

Typhoon Noul: Shenzhen girl, 6, blown away by gale, runs back to safety

The strongest storm to hit China so far this year made landfall some 55km from the spot.

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Taiwan

Typhoon Noul grounds 1,800 flights as southern China hit by heavy rainfall

Red rainstorm alert issued as country’s strongest typhoon so far this year causes severe disruption in tech hub Shenzhen and nearby cities.

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Fishing boats take shelter in Huila, Guangdong. Photo: CCTV

Video | Typhoon Noul makes landfall in southern China

The storm is the most powerful to make landfall east of the Pearl River Estuary in the past decade.

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Weather

Rail and air services cancelled as southern China braces for Typhoon Noul

The third typhoon to hit the country this month is expected to make landfall overnight bringing heavy rains and strong winds.

China braces for up to 3 typhoons in wake of Bavi and Maysak

Latest possible storm is brewing east of the South China Sea and poses ‘complex and severe’ challenge, officials say.

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Chinese teenager lies to parents about holiday to secretly help flood victims

Shanghai student quietly spends pocket money on relief supplies and takes 13-hour journey to assist volunteers in disaster zone.

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After completing his gaokao exam, a Shanghai teenager told his parents he was heading out on a leisure holiday, but secretly embarked on a 13-hour journey to flood-stricken Guangxi with a friend. Photo: QQ.com
AI: Geopolitics

Why the atmosphere could become the next geopolitical battleground

There is growing disquiet in several nations about how weather-manipulation tools are used in cross-border rivalries.

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The sky is emerging as a new arena of strategic competition as nations move beyond simply forecasting the weather towards actively shaping it. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Trending in China

Chinese man swims 3 hours clutching tyre to check on parents in flooded village

Following mother’s call about missing father, son and friend brave deep waters after 800 mm of rain falls on Qinzhou city.

Extreme weather

Chinese rescuers race to reach residents trapped by landslide that has killed 8 people

Beijing allocates US$7.4 million for rescue and relief as equipment, including life search gear and slope radar, is sent to disaster zone.

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