We apologise this week for some disruption to our editorial operation for articles in Asia (northern hemisphere articles are unaffected).

Whilst we have editorial staff in Australia we also have a tagging operation in the Philippines which has been severely impacted by the weekend's natural disaster - winds there reached 360 kph.

We are in the process of switching over to our other tagging operation for Asian articles but there will be delays in articles coming out over the next few days while this is happening.

Thank you for your patience and if you would like to make a donation to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan please do so via your favourite charity - or the local government in the region where our tagging operation is based is accepting donations here.