Taiwan military rescues some 300 typhoon victims CISHAN, Taiwan - Taiwan's military rescued about 300 people Tuesday after a mudslide touched off by Typhoon Morakot consumed a village, but scores remained missing. A helicopter on a relief operation in the area crashed into a mountain with three crew aboard. 1 million evacuated as powerful typhoon hits China BEIJING - A powerful typhoon toppled houses, flooded villages and forced nearly 1 million people to flee to safety on China's eastern coast before weakening into a tropical storm Monday. Taiwan mulling building bridge linking with China TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan is considering building a bridge to mainland China in the latest sign of warming ties between the cross-Strait rivals, an official said Thursday.
Renowned Chinese author Su Hsueh-lin dies at 103 TAIPEI - Renowned Chinese essayist and literary expert Su Hsueh-lin, who was involved in the 1919 May Fourth student movement for a modern China, died of heart failure at a hospital in southern Taiwan on Wednesday, Kyodo News reported.