News Source: Novinite
| 3 months ago
World August 12, 2009, Wednesday Typhoon Morakot has caused at least USD 225 M in agricultural damage while nearly 30 000 houses were still without power and 750 000 homes without water. About 700 people missing in southern Taiwan after Typhoon...
News Source: BBC
| 3 months ago
She says family members from surrounding areas have been converging on Hsiaolin, demanding that helicopters be sent to their villages too...The search for survivors has been a slow process as the only way in and out of the villages is by helicopter,...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
The member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, He Guoqiang, has praised Fujian province’s Typhoon Morakot relief efforts,...
News Source: Voice of America
| 3 months ago
Authorities in Taiwan say search crews have rescued 700 people from at least three villages buried by landslides triggered by Typhoon Morakot. Many of the survivors are from Shiao Lin village in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung county. Rescue crews have...
News Source: The Day
| 3 months ago
As the rain tapered off and the sun briefly appeared, helicopters resumed their search this morning for scores of people believed missing in landslides and flooding that hit these rugged mountains of southern Taiwan last weekend. Army officials said...
News Source: United Press International
| 3 months ago
Rescue and recovery efforts continued Wednesday in China and Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot , which killed at least 70 people in both countries. In Taiwan, the death toll was 62 as of Tuesday evening, Xinhua, the official Chinese government news agency,...