CEBU, Philippines, Dec 8, 2006 (AFP) - Host nation Philippines said Friday that upcoming ASEAN and East Asia Summits on the island of Cebu have been postponed until January over worries about an incoming storm. The decision was announced just a day after Britain, the United States, Australia and other nations warned against travel to Cebu over worries of a possible terror attack at the summits, which start Sunday. Officials insisted the reason for the postponement was a tropical storm bearing down on Cebu with wind speeds on Friday afternoon of more than 100 kilometres per hour, according to the Hong Kong Observatory website. "The decision was based on this weather disturbance and on this disturbance only," said Marciano Paynor, who heads the national committee that organised the summits. Paynor said ministerial meetings were expected to go ahead but the leaders' meetings of both the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the wider East Asian Summit would be postponed. bur/mc/km