Clean-up under way as Hong Kong begins recovery after powerful typhoon Ragasa
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Hong Kong is picking up the pieces as schools resume, businesses assess losses and workers tackle the widespread destruction caused by powerful typhoon Ragasa, which brought the city to a standstill for nearly two days.
The Hong Kong Observatory cancelled all typhoon warning signals at 11.20am on Thursday.
It noted that the threat posed to the city by Ragasa, which triggered the highest-level No 10 hurricane warning for nearly 11 hours the previous day, had diminished significantly.
Education authorities also announced that afternoon kindergarten classes would resume, while lessons in the morning remained suspended.
Ragasa edged as close as about 100km (62 miles) to the south of Hong Kong on Wednesday morning, disrupting work and transport services and forcing the suspension of school classes for nearly three days.
