Affecting a country already inundated by summer rains, Typhoon Nelson brought additional flooding and significant damage to much of Southern China.
CAI RANG, VIETNAM -- For centuries, as monsoon rains, typhoons and wars have swept over them and disappeared into the sunshine, the farmers and fishermen of the Mekong Delta have drawn life from the water and fertile fields where the great river ends its 3,000-mile 3,000-mile the sea.
Photograph: Kirk Aeder/Barcroft Media 10.25am BST Back in China, a worker drains water out of boats on the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province following heavy rain from Typhoon Fitow.
In recent decades, Taiwan has suffered from severe bouts of torrential rain, and typhoon induced floods have become the major natural threat to Taiwan.
Even before the rain and typhoon this summer, the country's dysfunctional food distribution system, very high inflation and foreign sanctions imposed because of Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programmes had contributed to what appears to be severe hunger in the North.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Searchers in Taiwan found mangled vehicle parts thought to be from a bus carrying 19 mainland Chinese tourists that disappeared when rains from Typhoon Megi caused huge mudslides on a mountainside highway, the transport minister said Saturday.
In the summer time, electric power outages and vibrator stoppages occur frequently due to unstable weather conditions, including heavy rain and typhoons with lightning.
This is unlikely to be the cause of tree mortality in these stands because the high amounts of precipitation are usually the result of a few days rain from typhoons and most of this moisture becomes runoff on these steep slopes.
In addition to the rains, the typhoon produced winds of up to 160 km/h (100 mph), with gusts of 130 km/h (80 mph) recorded in Tokyo; however, wind damage was minor.
Heavy rains from Typhoon Haitang on July 16, 2005, caused mudslides and flooding in central and southern Taiwan.
