Typhoon Shuts Down Taiwan Schools, Businesses

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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.

In China, more than 270,000 people were evacuated in Fujian province in preparation, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, adding 52,000 boats were ordered back to harbor. Ferry services linking Fujian province and Taiwan’s Kinmen were halted, the report said.

The storm was forecast to cross the Taiwan Straits and make landfall in Fujian late yesterday or early today, the China Meteorological Administration said on its Web site.

The Northwest Pacific region, including Taiwan, eastern China, Japan, and Vietnam, may be hit by as many as 29 typhoons and tropical storms this year compared with 24 last year, due to relatively high ocean temperatures, the Central Weather Bureau said last month.


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