Torrential rain in Taiwan kills four over past week

Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing four people and triggering floods and landslides in central and southern areas, authorities said Monday.Two people were killed and hundreds injured as the storm dumped more than 500 millimetres (20 inches) of rain across the south over a ...

Southern Taiwan lashed by torrential rain, 4 dead

Typhoon Danas lashed southern Taiwan with record winds in July in a rare hit to the island’s densely populated west coast, which knocked down more than 3,000 electric poles in the worst damage to the island’s power grid in decades.