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“As the typhoon continues to move towards the northwest, almost the whole of Taiwan will be covered by the storm circle later tonight,” meteorologist Chu Mei-lin, with the island’s weather ...

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Amy Chang Chien reported from Yilan County, Taiwan. Go here for the latest on Typhoon Kong-rey. Super Typhoon Kong-rey was barreling toward Taiwan on Wednesday, packing ferocious winds and heavy ...

Kong-rey's winds were already sustaining maximum speeds of 240 kilometers (150 miles) per hour as it approached Taiwan, the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest update. But that was ...

Taiwan suspended work and classes on some outlying islands and fishers secured their boats Wednesday as authorities warned approaching Super Typhoon Kong-rey could trigger landslides. Strong winds ...

Typhoon Kong-rey was the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale Thursday as it made landfall near Chenggong, Taiwan, Thursday, local time. The observed ...

depending on the typhoon developments. Meanwhile, Greater Bay Airlines cancelled four of the flights scheduled for Friday, two between Hong Kong and Tokyo and two others between the city to Osaka.