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All-day school classes will be suspended on Thursday and Friday and dozens of flights will be cancelled, as the Hong Kong Observatory is expected to issue the No 8 signal at 6.20pm until at least Friday noon due to Super Typhoon Yagi.
The Observatory said the warning would remain in force because Yagi was a mature storm.