Typhoon Gaemi hits Chinese seaboard, widespread flooding feared
Beijing, China/Paipei, Taiwan Reuters Typhoon Gaemi roared into south-eastern China on Thursday after churning across the Taiwan Strait, prompting warnings of swelling rivers, flash floods and waterlogging in cities and provinces that were hit by extreme rains just several weeks ago. Gaemi, the third and most powerful typhoon to hit China’s eastern seaboard this year, […]
Updated: Typhoon Gaemi sinks freighter off Taiwan, heads to China coast
Updated: 3:30pm (AEST) Taipei, Taiwan/Beijing, China Reuters Typhoon Gaemi swept through northern Taiwan on Thursday, killing two people, triggering flooding and sinking a freighter offshore before heading across the sea and into China where it is expected to dump more torrential rain. Gaemi made landfall around midnight on the north-eastern coast of Taiwan in Yilan […]
Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years kills nine; 50 missing
Updated: 8:15am, 4th April, 2024 (AEDT) Hualien, Taiwan Reuters Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed nine people on Wednesday and injured more than 900, while 50 workers travelling in minibuses to a hotel in a national park were missing. Some buildings tilted at precarious angles in the mountainous, sparsely populated county of […]
China’s vast countryside in rush to bolster COVID defences
Shanghai/Beijing, China Reuters China’s thinly resourced countryside is racing to beef up medical facilities before millions of factory workers return home for the Lunar New Year holiday next month from cities where COVID-19 is surging. Having imposed the world’s strictest COVID regime of lockdowns and relentless testing for three years, China reversed course this month […]