FILE PHOTO: This handout photo taken September 26, 2025 and received through the Facebook page of Palanas Municipal Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office shows municipal workers clearing a road of fallen trees toppled during Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi in Palanas, Masbate province. Another tropical storm is edging closer to the Philippines. - Palanas Municiapl Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office/AFP
HONG KONG: Tropical Storm Matmo edged closer to the Philippines on Thursday (Oct 2) and was expected to intensify into a typhoon that could threaten southern China this weekend, just about a week after the region was battered by Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years.
Matmo, which had maximum sustained winds of 65 kph, is forecast to move west-northwest to the vicinity of Luzon, the Philippines' most populous region, at about 22 kph, according to Hong Kong's observatory on Thursday morning. The country's central region was already grappling with the aftermath of an earthquake that killed dozens of people.
