Typhoon Haitang

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Google last week released its Year in Search for 2017, including the results for the top news-related searches in Taiwan, which revealed that sporting events, mobile games, cram school abuse, typhoons, transportation, electricity shortages, computer viruses, and North Korea were ...

China's National Meteorological Center said on Tuesday Typhoon Talim would intensify to a super typhoon and is likely to hit China's southeast coast on Thursday or Friday. Picture: Xinhua/Liang Minhui. Taipei - Taiwan issued a maritime warning and airlines cancelled some flights as the island braced for ...

FUZHOU, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Hato, the 13th typhoon this year, has forced the evacuation of more than 4,000 people, as it moves towards China's southeast coast. The typhoon is likely to land in the coastal area of south China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday morning, as it was moving to the west at a ...

FUZHOU/GUANGZHOU, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Hato, the 13th typhoon this year, is moving towards China's southeast coast, as people in the region were ordered to leave fish farms and moor boats Monday. As of 2 p.m. Monday, the eye of the typhoon was located in the northwestern Pacific, packing maximum ...

TAIPEI, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan's weather authority Monday issued sea and land warnings as Typhoon Hato moves closer to the island. As of Monday afternoon, Hato, the 13th typhoon this year, was located about 380 kilometers east-southeast of Eluanbi, Taiwan's southernmost tip. It was moving in a ...

TOKYO, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Noru, the fifth one of this season, made landfall at northern Wakayama prefecture in western Japan, around 3: 30 p.m. local time (0630 GMT) on Monday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The typhoon, with central atmospheric pressure at 970 hectopascals, ...

TOKYO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- People in southwestern Japan on Saturday are bracing for the strong Typhoon Noru which is expected to make landfall at Japan's Kyushu island on Sunday morning, bringing violent winds and torrential rain. As of 1:00 p.m. local time Saturday, the typhoon, the fifth one of this ...

TAIPEI, (Taiwan News)-- Agricultural losses following the two recent weather events on July 29-30 have reached NT$280.5 million (US$9.27 million), according to the Council of Agriculture (COA). Typhoon Nesat, with Typhoon Haitang following hard on its heels, caused heavy losses to Taiwan's ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The remnants of Typhoon Haitang, now a tropical depression, has caused heavy rainfall and strong winds to Taiwan's southern city Kaohsiung. About 5,137 people were evacuated as of Monday morning as a result of the heavy rain and powerful wind gusts brought by Haitang.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)— A 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit Taitung County at 8:58 p.m. on Sunday, just as Typhoon Haitang was ripping through the southern part of Taiwan. The earthquake jolted Green Island, Taitung with an intensity of 3, according to the Central Weather Bureau. The quake's epicenter ...

BEIJING: Over 2 lakh people have been evacuated after Typhoon Haitang struck China's eastern Fujian Province with incessant rain battering ... Typhoon Haitang, the 10th typhoon this year, made landfall at 4.40 pm yesterday in Pingtung on the island of Taiwan, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Despite Typhoon Gorio (international name Nesat) having left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) early Sunday morning, Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal 1 was still raised over the Batanes Islands because of Tropical Storm Haitang. PAGASA's Sunday morning bulletin said that Gorio was 555 ...