Typhoon Fung - Wong

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  mandy

  29-07-2008 10:47

  Taipei — Taiwan's government ordered financial markets and businesses to shut and closed schools as Typhoon Fung-Wong struck the island, bringing torrential rains and winds gusting at 96 miles an hour.

  One man was killed and six others injured as of 5 p.m. yesterday, the National Fire Agency, which coordinates the island's rescue missions, said.

  Fung-Wong, Chinese for Phoenix, made landfall early yesterday and is packing sustained winds of 119 kilometers an hour, the Central Weather Bureau said. The eye of the typhoon had left the island as of 2:30 p.m., and was located 180 kilometers south off the coast of Matsu island in the Taiwan Straits, the bureau said.

  Schools and offices in cities in the northern counties of Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Geelung city will reopen today, the government's Central Personnel Administration said on its Web site
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  Ted

  31-07-2008 10:11

  En dat is de eerste, ben benieuwd hoeveel er nog volgen.

  3 jaar geleden hadden ze er 7, vorig jaar 4 geloof ik. Vorig jaar was dan ook een redelijk rustig en droog jaar………..

  Toen ik 3 jaar geleden naar Taiwan vloog rond 20 oktober kwam er precies 1 over Taiwan heen (precies bij Taipei). Dus moesten we een dag op Bangkok verblijven.
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  Sjoerd

  02-08-2008 09:50

  Votig jaar gingen wij begin oktober. We landden op dinsdag en zondag ervoor ging er ook nog 1 over Taipei. Hadden toen wel erg geluk.

  Sjoerd