{"id":3073,"date":"2017-08-27T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T10:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2017-08-27T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T10:11:54","slug":"second-storm-hits-hong-kong-and-macau-amid-typhoon-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/second-storm-hits-hong-kong-and-macau-amid-typhoon-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Storm Hits Hong Kong and Macau Amid Typhoon Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong: A powerful storm lashed Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday, just days after a punishing typhoon swept through southern China and claimed at least 18 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Both cities raised a Typhoon 8 signal, the third-highest warning level, early Sunday morning as severe tropical storm &#8220;Pakhar&#8221; made landfall in the region, where emergency workers are still battling to repair Wednesday&#8217;s damage.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon cancelled 50 flights on Sunday morning and are expecting more delays and cancellations.<br \/>\nAll ferry services in Hong Kong were suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The Typhoon 8 storm warning level would typically shut down Hong Kong&#8217;s stock market, schools and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Packing winds of up to 130kmh Pakhar &#8211; named after a freshwater fish in the lower Mekong river &#8212; smashed into southern China as worst-hit Macau was still picking up the pieces after Typhoon Hato.<\/p>\n<p>Hato ripped through the gambling hub Wednesday, plunging casinos into darkness and causing destructive floods.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong: A powerful storm lashed Hong Kong and Macau on Sunday, just days after a punishing typhoon swept through southern China and claimed at least 18 lives. Both cities raised a Typhoon 8 signal, the third-highest warning level, early Sunday morning as severe tropical storm &#8220;Pakhar&#8221; made landfall in the region, where emergency workers [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}