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/ 4 September 2006
Taipei 101, the world’s tallest skyscraper, stands as the pride of the modern Taiwanese capital, but it is around the lowlier blue-roofed Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall that hundreds of mainland Chinese tourists buzz daily. The tourists are all eager to get a glimpse of an island about which they could only read in censored textbooks during the Cold War period.
At least one person was killed and 34 injured on Monday as Typhoon Haitang pounded Taiwan, forcing airports and financial markets to shut, while south-east China evacuated more than half a million people as it braced for the storm. Haitang’s gusting winds of up to 227kph wreaked havoc across Taiwan.