Maltese Families Count Cost as Typhoon Ragasa Slams Hong Kong: Flights Halted, Tuna Trade Hit
Valletta wakes to shuttered classrooms and grounded holiday jets as Typhoon Ragasa tears through Hong Kong, severing the umbilical air corridor that links Malta’s winter sun-seekers to the fragrant dai pai dong markets of Kowloon. At 06:15 CET, Air Malta flight KM856—popular with Maltese students heading to Chinese-language summer programmes—was officially scratched from today’s departures…