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CWA: Typhoon Kong-rey Strengthens May Make Landfall Hualien or South
發布於 2024-10-30 10:32:13
Tomorow Noon to Evening
The Central Weather Administration is expanding its land warning, as Typhoon Kong-rey continues to pick up strength.
The CWA says the storm's maintaining its radius of 300 kilometers, and the land warning now includes Hualien, Taitung, Pingtung, and the Hengchun Peninsula.
Officials say the storm is moving quickly, and could make landfall sometime between tomorrow noon and evening, with the eye of the storm arriving south of Hualien County.
Kong-rey is currently about 520 kilometers southeast of Eluanbi, but forecasters say the storm's periphery (外圍) could hit southeastern Taiwan early tomorrow morning.
The CWA says based on the typhoon's current path and speed, the entire island may be included in the land warning as soon as late tonight.
Kong-rey is packing sustained wind speeds of 184 kilometers per hour, with gusts of up to 227 kilometers per hour.
A heavy rain advisory is also in effect, for Keelung North Coast, as well as mountainous areas in Taipei, New Taipei, and Yilan.
(NS)
Taiwan donates 500 metric tons of rice to storm-hit Philippines
發布於 2024-10-30 10:32:13
Taiwan donated 500 metric tons of rice to the Philippines in the wake of recent destruction caused by Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Gaemi in late July, at a ceremony held in the city of Makati on Tuesday.
Wallace Chow, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines, handed over a bag of rice printed with a Republic of China (Taiwan) flag and "Love from Taiwan" to Philippine officials during the ceremony.
Chow also says the Taiwan Technical Mission in the Philippines will soon begin projects in Isabela and Cagayan provinces in northeastern Luzon to increase rice production, in a bid to ensure (確保) no one will suffer from hunger when the Southeast Asian country is hit by natural disasters in the future.
Philippine officials say their country appreciates the generosity of Taiwan for the donation, which will go a long way in easing the burden of victims and the poorest in the communities.
UK Teen Accused of Stabbing Attack Also Made Ricin
發布於 2024-10-30 10:32:13
Police say a British teen accused of fatally stabbing 3 girls also made poison and had a terror manual (手冊).
AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports
Argentina Hotel Collapse
發布於 2024-10-30 10:32:13
Authorities say a 10-story hotel under renovation in Argentina has collapsed, leaving one person dead and at least seven trapped in the debris.
Firefighters searching for survivors rescued a woman who was alive from the rubble of the Dubrovnik Hotel in Villa Gesell, 350-kilometers south of the capital Buenos Aires.
Officials say an 80-year-old man died in the collapse, and between seven and nine people, presumably (據推測) masons working on the hotel's restoration, remain trapped.
A prosecutor opened an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse, but Villa Gesell’s municipality said in a press release the hotel was undergoing a renovation without the proper permits.
China Launches 3 Astronauts to Orbiting Space Station
發布於 2024-10-30 10:32:13
China launched a new three-person crew to its orbiting space station today, as the country seeks to expand (擴張) its exploration of outer space.
The team of two men and one woman will replace the astronauts who have lived on the Tiangong space station for the last six months.
They are expected to stay until April or May of next year.
The new mission commander went to space in the Shenzhou-14 mission in 2022, while the other two, are first-time space travelers, born in the 1990s.