ASIA: Vulnerable Taiwan facing new trade challenges*

Typhoon Morakot, which lashed Taiwan in early August, illustrates just how vulnerable this small island is to natural disasters, quite apart from its challenging political environment.Typhoon Morakot’s toll came to over 600 killed and missing, Taiwan’s deadliest natural disaster since the 1999 earthquake, in which more than 2,000 people perished. Morakot dumped a year’s worth of rain – over 2,500 millimetres – in just three days. In Siaolin village alone, in southern Taiwan, over 400 residents -…

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