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Taiwan: Typhoon disaster and call for volunteers

Sunday, August 9th, 2009 @ 04:32 UTC

by David Reid

Countries:: Taiwan (ROC)
Topics:: Disaster, Relief & Rescue
Languages:: Chinese

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Español:	Taiwan: Tifón causa desastre...
繁體中文:	台灣：颱風釀災，志工進場...
简体中文:	台湾：台风酿灾，志工进场...

Southern Taiwan has been severely affected by floods associated with Typhoon Morakot (颱風莫拉克). Billy Pan posted (zh) a link to a Google Map showing the sites of the disaster (zh) and places where volunteers and assistance are required. On Twitter taiwanfloods is regularly tweeting the latest news about the situation in the south. The hashtag #taiwanfloods is also being used.

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