Southern China island province braces for powerful Typhoon Yagi

A worker reinforces a glass window with tape at a cafe in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province (Pu Xiaoxu/Xinhua via AP)

A powerful typhoon swept south of Hong Kong and was moving toward a Chinese island province where it was expected to make landfall on Friday.

Trading on the stock market, bank services and schools were halted in Hong Kong after the city’s weather authority raised a No 8 typhoon signal for Typhoon Yagi, the third-highest warning under the city’s weather system.