More than 90,000 people in Taiwan fled their homes as Typhoon Bavi lashed the island with heavy rain and strong winds on Saturday, after cutting power to thousands in Japan's Okinawa islands as it bore down on eastern China.
More than 900,000 people have fled their homes in China, the government said, as an approaching typhoon lashed northern Taiwan and Japan's remote southwestern islands on Saturday, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power.