THE government issued fresh weather warnings on Tuesday as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated ahead of Typhoon Nika (international name: Toraji).

Now a weakened tropical storm, Nika blew out to sea overnight after causing relatively limited damage and no reported deaths.

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