Typhoon Dolphin Triggers Mass Evacuations and Travel Disruptions Across East Asia
4 sources across 4 countries · Argentina · India · Singapore · Taiwan · 1 of them is linked to a state
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- The Indian Express
- The Straits Times
- Taipei Times
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Typhoon Dolphin is expected to make landfall in eastern China between late August 9 and early August 10, prompting high level alerts and mass evacuations. Chinese authorities have issued warnings for the provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, as well as the city of Shanghai. In Fujian, nearly 99,000 people were relocated, while officials in Shanghai planned to evacuate approximately 103,000 residents. The storm is expected to bring extremely torrential rains, with some areas of Zhejiang potentially receiving between 250 and 500 millimeters of precipitation.
Travel across the region has been severely disrupted. Shanghai has seen hundreds of flights suspended, including eight Singapore Airlines flights between Singapore and Shanghai that were cancelled for August 9 and 10. In Japan, the typhoon lashed the southern Okinawa prefecture on August 8, where it injured six people and left more than 50,000 buildings without power. In Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration reported that the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds, resulting in 75 typhoon related incidents in Taipei, including fallen trees and collapsed construction fencing.
There is a discrepancy in how the severity of the Chinese response is framed. A center right source describes the situation as being on maximum alert with a red alert issued, the highest level. Conversely, center and center left sources describe the storm as an orange category typhoon, which they identify as the second highest level.
How each side framed it
- Centre-left
- Focused on the localized impacts in Taiwan and Japan while categorizing the Chinese response as second highest level.
- Centre
- Presented the typhoon as one of several global updates, focusing on the number of flights grounded and people evacuated.
- Centre-right
- Framed the event as a maximum emergency by emphasizing the red alert and the scale of evacuations.
Sources
- Centre-right Infobae: Eastern China is on maximum alert before the arrival of typhoon Dolphin
- Centre-left Taipei Times: Typhoon Dolphin to be closest to Taiwan today
- Centre The Indian Express: World latest updates: Shanghai grounds 1,300 flights, 300,000 evacuated ahead of Typhoon Dolphin
- Centre-right The Straits Times: SIA flights between Singapore and Shanghai disrupted due to Typhoon Dolphin
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