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| Typhoon Fung-Wong heads to Taiwan | Typhoon Fung-Wong heads to Taiwan |
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| Taiwan is preparing for a typhoon with winds of more than 160km/h (99mph), less than two weeks after a powerful tropical storm lashed the island. | Taiwan is preparing for a typhoon with winds of more than 160km/h (99mph), less than two weeks after a powerful tropical storm lashed the island. |
| Local governments have cancelled work and classes and closed markets. | Local governments have cancelled work and classes and closed markets. |
| Taiwanese stacked sandbags at doors and boarded up windows as typhoon Fung-Wong approached. It is on course to hit the island on Monday. | Taiwanese stacked sandbags at doors and boarded up windows as typhoon Fung-Wong approached. It is on course to hit the island on Monday. |
| Taiwan is still reeling from tropical storm Kalmaegi earlier this month which left 20 people dead and six missing. | Taiwan is still reeling from tropical storm Kalmaegi earlier this month which left 20 people dead and six missing. |
| Rain and wind lashed the east coast of the island, causing a rock slide in the Taroko Gorge that injured a man, police said. | Rain and wind lashed the east coast of the island, causing a rock slide in the Taroko Gorge that injured a man, police said. |
| Coastguard officials said they were searching for a fishing boat carrying four Taiwanese and a Chinese man which went missing on Friday near Matsu, off China's south-eastern coast. | Coastguard officials said they were searching for a fishing boat carrying four Taiwanese and a Chinese man which went missing on Friday near Matsu, off China's south-eastern coast. |
| In northern Taiwan, winds whipped up giant waves and hundreds of fishing boats took shelter in port.Advertisement | |
| Strong winds whip up giant waves in northern Taiwan | |
| Officials said dozens of villagers were evacuated from a mountainous region in southern Kaohsiung where several houses were buried by mudslides caused by Kalmaegi. | Officials said dozens of villagers were evacuated from a mountainous region in southern Kaohsiung where several houses were buried by mudslides caused by Kalmaegi. |
| A Central Weather Bureau forecaster was quoted as saying the total rainfall may reach 900mm (35 inches). | A Central Weather Bureau forecaster was quoted as saying the total rainfall may reach 900mm (35 inches). |