Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong's expected late-night landfall on the east coast.

The super typhoon, which comes just days after another storm ravaged the country, was working its way west with winds of 185 kilometres (115 miles) per hour near the centre and gusts of up to 230 kph as of 11 am (0300 GMT), the state weather service said.

With a radius spanning nearly the whole of the Philippines, Fung-wong is expected to bring wind and heavy rain to broad swathes of the archipelago nation, which last week saw more than 220 people killed by Typhoon Kalmaegi.

Schools and government offices were ordered closed Monday across the main island of Luzon, including the capital Manila, where nearly 300 fli

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