More than 40,000 people have been evacuated from China's southern island of Hainan ahead of the expected landfall of the year's first typhoon late on Monday, although it should help ease a severe drought, Reuters cited state media as saying. Typhoon Kujira will sweep over the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea before hitting land somewhere between Wanning on Hainan and Zhanjiang in neighbouring Guangdong province, bringing strong wind and heavy rain, Xinhua news agency said. Besides the evacuations, about 20,000 fishing boats have been called back to harbour, and school sessions on Tuesday have been suspended in the provincial capital, Haikou, it added.
