Taipei, June 30 (CNA) Four to five tropical storms or typhoons are likely to hit Taiwan in the second half of 2023, out of the 18.8 predicted to form, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Friday.
Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) A widely-circulated video on Taiwanese social media showed holiday goers in New Taipei fleeing as a river breached its banks amid heavy rain from the passing Typhoon Muifa.
The Executive Yuan on Tuesday initiated a NT$1 billion (US$33.69 million) program to boost natural disaster resilience in response to extreme weather events and earthquakes, Cabinet spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said.
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) approved the program’s launch, Lo said in statement following a Cabinet meeting on disaster management.
Taiwan is in an earthquake hot spot and reports an average of 40,000 quakes a year, making the promotion of earthquake awareness among the public an important duty for the government, Su was quoted as saying.
A previous disaster prevention and response improvement plan would be continued in the new program, which aims
Taipei, April 29 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) will join with local governments to test a torrential rain warning system at three recreation areas in mountainous parts of Taipei and New Taipei that are vulnerable to flooding and storm surges.
The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) is to join with local governments to test a torrential rain warning system at three recreation areas in mountainous parts of Taipei and New Taipei City that are vulnerable to flooding and storm surges.
The trial, to begin next month, would cover the Shuangsi (雙溪) recreation area in Taipei, Hubaotan (虎豹潭) in New Taipei City’s Shuangsi District (雙溪) and the Dabao River (大豹溪) in New Taipei City’s Sansia District (三峽), Weather Forecast Center Director Lu Kuo-chen (呂國臣) said.
Lu told a news conference that the new system aims to prevent a repeat of tragedies such as the