Day: September 22, 2025

Super Typhoon Ragasa: Shenzhen to evacuate 400,000, Guangdong suspends trains

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Cities in China’s southern provinces are getting ready to face Ragasa, the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year, with Shenzhen warning of “disastrous calamities” ahead and preparing to relocate hundreds of thousands of people. Advertisement The National Meteorological Centre (NMC) said on Sunday that Ragasa, the 18th typhoon this year, had intensified into a super typhoon on Sunday morning and was expected to bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to wide areas of the country’s southern and eastern regions. It is expected to make landfall along coastal areas…

Japan’s ruling party looks to first woman or new generation in ‘survival’ leadership race

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s Liberal Democratic party is poised to make political history next month by delivering either the country’s first female prime minister, or the youngest man to hold the job since the 19th century. But either result will force the long-ruling party to confront what a growing number of members see as a make-or-break chance to reinvigorate the ailing bloc. The LDP, which has ruled Japan for all but a handful…

China is killing the race for critical minerals with the largest antenna on Earth

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Hidden within the granite wilderness of central China lies an antenna so vast it dwarfs New York City five times over – a 500-kilowatt electromagnetic leviathan originally built to whisper to submarines. Advertisement Now, it is broadcasting China’s dominance in the global scramble for critical minerals. As nations race to secure lithium, cobalt and rare earths for green tech supremacy, Chinese geologists are deploying this monster – and its cousins – to detect ore and energy resources buried kilometres deep. The wireless electromagnetic method (WEM) project is leading the way…