A huge and powerful typhoon is headed toward southern China after lashing the Philippines with destructive winds and torrential rain, putting the region’s megacities on high alert with cancelled flights and disruptions to schools and businesses.

In November 2024, I helped cover the assassination threat against President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for The New York Times. Last month, the reporter Jonathan Wolfe and I wrote about the unusual collision of two Chinese ships, as they chased a Philippine Coast Guard vessel in contested waters of the South China Sea.

An “extreme threat to life and property” persists in the Babuyan Islands as the area remains under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 5 due to Super Typhoon Nando (international name: Ragasa), according to state meteorologists.