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and Yilan, Miaoli, Changhua, Nantou, Yunlin CGA urges Beijing not to use typhoons to assert jurisdiction The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterda…
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The article reports that Typhoon Champi caused widespread damage and injuries and prompted road closures and evacuations across Taiwan, with heavy rain expected to continue. For US-based Chinese readers with family or friends in Taiwan, the reported safety and disruption are the relevant family-life concern. The article also reports that Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration urged China not to exploit typhoons to assert jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait, but it does not describe any direct change to US visas, jobs, income, education or family-life rules.
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Typhoon Champi shuts down Taiwan
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Rain is expected to begin easing this afternoon, but a CWA forecaster said that if the storm stalls or loops on its approach, heavy winds are likely Typhoon Champi, which caused widespread damage and injuries, and prompted road closures and evacuations across Taiwan yesterday, is expected to continue to bring heavy rain this morning, with up to 900mm of rain forecast for mountainous areas of New Taipei City, Taoyuan and Yilan County, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday.
At one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the Pacific this year, Champi was packing gusts of about 191kph near its center as of 8:30pm, the CWA said.
Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu city and county, Taichung; and Yilan, Miaoli, Changhua, Nantou, Yunlin
CGA urges Beijing not to use typhoons to assert jurisdiction
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday urged China not to exploit typhoons to assert jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait.
The CGA issued the remarks after it found that China was shadowing eight Japan Coast Guard ships that sheltered in Taiwan proper’s western waters due to Typhoon Champi.
Eight Japan Coast Guard (JCG) vessels sailed southward along the Taiwan Strait median line from 6am on Thursday, reaching waters southwest of Penghu County’s Cimei Island (七美島), outside Taiwan’s contiguous zone, which extends 24 nautical miles (44.4km) from the territorial sea baseline, it said.
As the Japanese ships prepared for the typhoon, they were followed by
Taiwanese gymnast wins gold at world championships
Taiwanese gymnast Tang Chia-hung (唐嘉鴻) on Sunday won gold in the men’s horizontal bar final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Tang scored 14.966 in the final. He had advanced to the final in second place with a score of 14.566 points in qualifying, with a difficulty score of 6.000 and an execution score of 8.566.
In the final, he raised his difficulty score to 6.600, the highest among the eight finalists. Although he did not fully steady himself on landing, his score was still enough to claim the gold medal.
Taiwan had previously won two silver medals and
HK agents risk losing Taiwan status
CALL FOR NEW MEASURES:
Transnational repression should not just be treated as violation of individual rights, but as offenses against national interests, an official said Any Hong Kongers who collaborate with China to carry out transnational repression in Taiwan would have their Taiwanese citizenship or residency revoked, an official familiar with the matter said yesterday.
The comment came after the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Oct. 7 issued arrest warrants for two Hong Kongers, who allegedly in 2024 hired a Taiwanese private investigation agency to surveil Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Puma Shen (沈伯洋).
Two Taiwanese private investigators, Cheng Yung-chin (鄭永津) and Hsieh Yi-chen (謝乙辰), were indicted on charges of illegally collecting and using personal data under the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法), alongside two
Source: Taipei Times
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