HONG KONG: The most powerful storm to strike mainland China this year forced more than 260,000 people to evacuate their homes in northeastern Liaoning province, as Typhoon Bavi brought intense flooding.

Bavi has forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate in China, knocked out power in Japan and Taiwan, and triggered deadly landslides in the Philippines.

BEIJING: More than 900,000 people have fled their homes in China, officials said, as an approaching typhoon lashed northern Taiwan and Japan’s remote southwestern islands on…