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With Typhoon Gaemi bringing strong winds and rain to northern Taiwan, homeless people in the capital Taipei are looking for shelter from the storm.

A powerful and rapidly intensifying typhoon is barreling toward Taiwan, prompting authorities to close financial markets, schools and offices, and disrupt ongoing military drills.

Homeless people across Taiwan are seeking refuge in shelters as Typhoon Gaemi bears down. TaiwanPlus reports live from one such center in Taipei offering food, water and warmth.

Taiwan hunkered down on Wednesday for the arrival of a strengthening Typhoon Gaemi, with financial markets shut, flights cancelled and two people killed, while the military went on stand-by amid torrential rain.

The Philippines and Taiwan have closed financial markets, schools and offices on Wednesday as Typhoon Gaemi lashed Manila and barreled toward Taipei.

Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens.

The powerful storm has already caused deaths and devastation in the Philippines and is now bearing down on Taiwan, where emergency measures are in place.

Typhoon Gaemi has intensified into a strong Category 4 equivalent storm with sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts to near 170 mph. The storm is expected

A new Taipei kindergarten and three of its teachers face punishment over alleged child abuse.

Taiwan has shuttered offices, schools and tourist sites across the island ahead of a powerful typhoon due to make landfall later Wednesday

Former US President Donald Trump raised eyebrows last week when he accused Taiwan of snatching America’s crown in the $500 billion business of making computer chips.

Taiwanese fisherman Chen Zhi-rong says that for decades it was common to sail in waters that skirted the Chinese coastline. Since Beijing seized a boat and its crew for the first time in 17 years for violating a fishing ban — and continues to detain them — all that has changed.

There has been an outpouring of sympathy online for a Taiwan woman who tried, but failed, to save the life of her boyfriend in the aftermath of an horrific car accident. The woman will hold a traditional ghost marriage in his honour.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The arrival of typhoon Gaemi prompted the cancellation of air force drills off Taiwan’s east coast on Tuesday, although naval and land exercises are set to continue in other parts of ...

Taiwan curtailed its annual Han Kuang war games on Tuesday as Typhoon Gaemi barrelled towards the island, and is expected to bring strong winds and torrential rain.

Typhoon Gaemi is travelling towards Taiwan and the storm is forecast to intensify on approach, with some forecast models suggesting it could be an intense