A member of the Philippine Air Force stands in front of a satellite image of Typhoon Mangkhut at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council operations center in metropolitan Manila. (AP photo)HONG KONG: The Philippines braced early Friday for the onslaught of Super-Typhoon Mangkhut, whose 240kph (150 mph) winds were on a path for a direct hit at the country's largest and most populous island. A livestream update of the progress of Super Typhoon Mangkhut is available here. Officials warned that Super Typhoon Mangkhut carried the intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which killed more than 6,000 people, most of them in a storm surge. In the Philippine province of Cagayan in northern Luzon, the governor, Manuel Mamba, ordered evacuations and closed schools and offices as precautionary measures.

Source: Bangkok Post September 13, 2018 19:30 UTC