The tropical storm, with windspeeds over 198 kilometers per hour, has led to several deaths in the Philippines areas of Malabang and Zamboanga, as well as displacing around 13,000 people. All flights at Shanghai's two major airports have been canceled.

Old photos from a super typhoon that hit the Philippines a decade ago have been shared by social media users in Myanmar that falsely claimed it showed the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi, which slammed into several Asian countries and left more than 200 dead i 2024.

Asia's most powerful storm this year made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, killing at least four people after tearing through China's island of Hainan and the Philippines.

It caused high-rise buildings to shake, windows to smash, trucks to overturn, and trees falling and homes collapsing

In Vietnam, nine people died when the typhoon made landfall Saturday, and at least 55 others have died during the floods and landslides that followed.

Super Typhoon Yagi, the world's second-most powerful tropical cyclone of 2024, has left a devastating trail across Southeast Asia, claiming lives and wreaking havoc in Vietnam, China, and the Philippines.

Vietnam is preparing for more flooding with a tropical depression forecast to strengthen into a storm as it heads to its central coast, days after typhoon Yagi set off floods and landslides that killed more than 290 people in the north.

A decade-old picture of a Philippine city flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, has resurfaced in social media posts that falsely portrayed it as showing the damage caused by Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam.

Typhoon Yagi triggered floods, landslides that have killed over 500 people across South-east Asia. Read more at straitstimes.com.