Nearly 2 million people in southern China were evacuated as a powerful typhoon hurtled into one of the world’s most densely populated coasts, having already unleashed deadly flooding in Taiwan.

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The traditional fire dragon dance comes from Hong Kong’s Tai Hang neighbourhood, originally a Hakka village, in the late 1880s. Held each year during the Chinese Mid-Autumn festival, it features a ...