This is the shocking moment a Boeing 747 freighter's wing struck the runway during landing in Taipei, creating sparks that ...

Typhoon Podul has pounded Taiwan, with gusts of up to 178km/h, shutting down businesses in the south, grounding hundreds of ...

Schools and workplaces close, hundreds of flights cancelled and thousands evacuate as Typhoon Podul slams island.

More than 5,500 people had been evacuated in advance of the typhoon’s arrival on Wednesday, according to authorities.View on ...

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A large swathe of southern and eastern Taiwan shut down on Wednesday and hundreds of flights were cancelled ahead of the ...

As Typhoon Krathon approaches Taiwan's southwest coast, Kaohsiung mayor Chen Chi-mai compared the storm’s potential devastation to Typhoon Thelma in 1977, which left Kaohsiung without water and ...

Taiwan’s fire agency said it received a report early on Thursday that a cargo ship had sunk off the island’s southwestern coast, forcing its nine Myanmar crew members to abandon ship in life ...

Prior to landfall in Taiwan, Typhoon Gaemi strengthened in Pacific waters that have been at their warmest temperatures on record. The first typhoon of the season to affect Taiwan, it strengthened by ...

Taiwan was last hit by a typhoon of this strength and type in 2008. “Rainfall that lasts for half a day to a day can cause very serious damage,” said Dr. Huang, the meteorologist.

Taiwan is often hit by typhoons, with super typhoon Dujuan killing three people and leaving more than 300 injured in Taiwan in 2015.

Typhoon Dujuan injured hundreds in Taiwan last year In the same year, Typhoon Soudelor killed at least eight people in Taiwan and 21 in China.