Typhoon Wipha toppled trees and caused major flight disruptions on Sunday in Hong Kong and at some nearby airports in China as it moved west off the

Wipha, a Thai name, passed over the Philippines at tropical storm strength and drenched parts of Taiwan on Saturday. In the Philippines, the storm intensified seasonal monsoon rains, leaving at least a villager dead in floodwaters in northern Cagayan province.

Hong Kong issued its third-highest tropical cyclone warning in the early hours of Sunday as Typhoon Wipha (locally named Crising in the Philippines) drew nearer, with authorities cancelling classes and grounding hundreds of flights.