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A large swathe of southern and eastern Taiwan shut down on Wednesday (Aug 13) and hundreds of flights were cancelled ahead of the arrival later in the day of Typhoon Podul, with thousands of people evacuated.

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00:00A large swathe of southern and eastern Taiwan shut down on Wednesday, and hundreds of flights
00:07were cancelled ahead of the arrival, later in the day of Typhoon Podul, with thousands
00:11of people evacuated. The mid-strength Typhoon Podul was heading for the southeastern city
00:17of Taitung, as it intensifies and was expected to make landfall nearby on Wednesday afternoon.
00:23Nine cities and counties announced the suspension of work and school, including the southern
00:28metropolises of Kaohsiung and Tainan. In the capital Taipei, home to Taiwan's financial
00:34markets, there was no impact. Authorities are also working to evacuate those whose homes
00:40were damaged by a July typhoon that brought record winds and damaged the electricity grid
00:45in a rare direct hit to Taiwan's west coast. The government said more than 5,500 people
00:51had been evacuated ahead of the typhoon's arrival. All domestic flights were cancelled, 252 in
00:57total, while 129 international ones were axed too. After making landfall, the storm is expected
01:04to hit Taiwan's much more densely populated western coast before heading for China's southern
01:09province of Fujian later this week.
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