Taiwan, Typhoon and barrier lake
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The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and the United States expressed concern about increasingly frequent destabilising activities around Taiwan in a joint statement issued after their meeting.The three also expressed strong opposition to "unlawful maritime claims" in the South China Sea and attempts to enforce such claims,
China's attempt to conquer Taiwan by force "could be imminent", US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has warned. Donald Trump’s decision to pause hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons aid to Taiwan has raised concern he could be using the breakaway island as a bargaining chip to secure a better trade deal with China.
At least 14 people were killed when a decades-old lake barrier burst in Taiwan, a government official said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rains."As of 7 am Wednesday (2300 GMT Tuesday),
TAIPEI: Fourteen people have died in Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien, with 124 missing, after a barrier lake in the mountains overflowed to deluge a town during a typhoon, the island's fire department said on Wednesday (Sep 24).
Fierce winds, pounding rain and high seas battered Hong Kong on Wednesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa headed into southern China after causing a lake burst that killed at least 14 people in Taiwan.
Microsoft Corp yesterday said it plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Taiwan to match fast-growing demand from local vertical industries as AI applications gain traction. The Redmond,
Taiwan's export orders rose for the seventh straight month in August, fuelled by demand for tech products such as those related to artificial intelligence, but global trade uncertainty continues to cloud the outlook.
A lake barrier burst its banks in eastern Taiwan, while Hong Kong airport grounds most flights and shuts schools and businesses.