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That photo was taken 20 mins before the quake. Rescue team also found a shoe near there.

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The clothes and colors matched with that seen on the bus video. So confirmed 遇难了

(09-04-2024, 07:21 PM)WhatDoYouThink! Wrote: [ -> ]The clothes and colors matched with that seen on the bus video. So confirmed 遇难了

'遇难' 的英语Translation | 柯林斯汉语- 英语词典
1. (意外死亡) be killed in an accident. 2. (遭难) meet with misfortune pt, pp met. Copyright © by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

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(10-04-2024, 08:17 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]'遇难' 的英语Translation | 柯林斯汉语- 英语词典
1. (意外死亡) be killed in an accident. 2. (遭难) meet with misfortune pt, pp met. Copyright © by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

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遇难了 = (it means) in distress... Thinking

(09-04-2024, 06:18 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: [ -> ]

Kaohsiung, April 9 (CNA) A Labrador retriever named Roger has captured the hearts of people in Taiwan after it recently helped locate the body of an individual killed while hiking the Shakadang Trail following a magnitude 7.2 temblor that struck off Taiwan's eastern coast on April 3.

The 8-year-old canine is a ranking officer who has served with the Kaohsiung Fire Bureau for the past five years, search and rescue team leader Chen Chih-san (陳志三) said Tuesday.
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404090022

Taiwan earthquake death toll rises to 16, as rescuers still searching for two missing Singaporeans

Two Singaporeans Sim Hwee Kok and Neo Siew Choo were reported missing after the Taiwan quake.

They were said to be on their way to Tianxiang in Hualian County when the quake struck on Apr 3, 2024

(09-04-2024, 06:19 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: [ -> ]That photo was taken 20 mins before the quake. Rescue team also found a shoe near there.

Authorities discovered the three victims on Wednesday (today) as they worked to retrieve two other crying

bodies buried under the rocks along the Shakadang Trail in eastern Taiwan's Hualien county, the quake's epicentre.

3 more people remain missing along the Shakadang Trail including 2 S,poreans, National Fire Agency reported.

Singaporeans Sim Hwee Kok and Neo Siew Choo were last seen at a bus station in Hualien, heading to Taroko National Park. Taiwan’s. They the rescuers is narrowed the search perimeter.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/tai...ng-4255831

(10-04-2024, 08:44 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Taiwan earthquake death toll rises to 16, as rescuers still searching for two missing Singaporeans

Two Singaporeans Sim Hwee Kok and Neo Siew Choo were reported missing after the Taiwan quake.

They were said to be on their way to Tianxiang in Hualian County when the quake struck on Apr 3, 2024

A reckoning....After 25 years on, Taiwan has learned from its past on Earthquakes.

How Taiwan learned from the past to reduce the risk from earthquakes. Improvements to buildings and emergency response helped limit the impact when a 7.2 magnitude quake struck eastern Taiwan a week ago.

A Taiwan rescue team prepares to go into the Taroko Gorge following the quake
A rescue team prepares to head into the Taroko Gorge following the quake (10 Apr 2024)

Hualien, Taiwan – When Wen Zong Hao felt the 7.2 magnitude earthquake strike Taiwan’s east coast a week ago, he was immediately worried.
“The shaking was so violent and went on for so long,” he said. He is on shift as a deputy captain in the Hualien County fire station, his instincts quickly kicked in. “I immediately brought my team over to start the rescue effort,” he said. “We had the sense that this earthquake was likely to cause serious damage.”

But a week since the largest earthquake in 25 years, much of the island is unscathed. Even in the eastern county of Hualien, which lies just kilometres from the epicentre, life has largely returned to normal. Restaurants are open for business, children play on the street and the city’s night market is once again bustling.

Despite the county having a population of more than 300,000, the death toll from the earthquake currently stands at 13, with more than 1,160 injured. The numbers are a sharp contrast with the last time the island was hit by such a severe tremor.

In 1999, more than 2,400 people were killed and more than 11,000 injured when the island was shaken by an earthquake of a similar magnitude, known as the Chi-Chi quake.

A collapsed building in Hualien being taken down by an excavator. People in yellow high-vis jackets are watching from a distance as authorities are carefully taking down the buildings that collapsed in the quake. Building codes have been tightened in recent yrs to reduce risk from such tremors

Just 22 years old at the time, Wen worked alongside other firefighters, dragging people from the wreckage of the more than 50,000 collapsed homes across Taiwan. “They just kept shouting, ‘Help me’, ‘Save me’. You could only do your best to listen to where the sound was coming from and try to pull people out. We didn’t have anything else,” he recalled.

The Chi-Chi quake was a reckoning for island’s earthquake mitigation strategy, explained assistant professor Wang Yu of National Taiwan University’s (NTU) geology dept.

“There were lots of lessons we learned, including the improvement of building codes, understanding earthquake warning signs, the development and implementation of earthquake early warning (EEW) systems and earthquake education,” Wang said.

A series of new sensors and 200 monitoring stations across the island now allow authorities to generate “shakemaps”, providing almost real-time assessments of seismological movements.

Another day go by....missing with no news. crying

Another clip recorded by a German tourist and shared with the Guardian showed the couple wearing shorts and T-shirt and walking on the trail about 500m down the path just 25 minutes before the earthquake.

(10-04-2024, 08:17 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]'遇难' 的英语Translation | 柯林斯汉语- 英语词典
1. (意外死亡) be killed in an accident. 2. (遭难) meet with misfortune pt, pp met. Copyright © by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

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Special search and rescue team leader Chen Yifeng said the part of the trail was buried under huge rocks and debris after it collapsed during the temblor.

This screen grab from a video taken on April 6, 2024 and released by Hualien County Fire Dept shows a rescuer locating body of an earthquake victim with the help of Roger, an eight-year-old labrador

This screen grab from a video released by Hualien County Fire Dept shows a rescuer locating body of an earthquake victim with the help of Roger, an eight-year-old labrador (Hualien County Fire Dept “As for 4-foreigners, two of them are Australian-S"porean dual nationals, 1 Indian and one Canadian,” Hualien mayor Chen-Wei said.

3 bodies of other people who were missing in the national park have been recovered.

The family of the two S'porean passport holders has given the pair’s clothing items to rescuers in Taiwan to aid search with sniffer dogs, according to the Hualien County Fire Dept.

Anyday, another day pass by... crying

(10-04-2024, 08:56 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Authorities discovered the three victims on Wednesday (today) as they worked to retrieve two other bodies buried under the rocks along the Shakadang Trail in eastern Taiwan's Hualien county, the quake's epicentre.

3 more people remain missing along the Shakadang Trail including 2 S,poreans, National Fire Agency reported.

Singaporeans Sim Hwee Kok and Neo Siew Choo were last seen at a bus station in Hualien, heading to Taroko National Park. Taiwan’s. They the rescuers is narrowed the search perimeter.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/tai...ng-4255831

3 more people remain missing along the Shakadang Trail including 2 S,poreans, National Fire Agency reported.
https://youtu.be/7DtuvA0hpic?si=wHtlVnTKtgtcBbZu

(11-04-2024, 09:27 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Special search and rescue team leader Chen Yifeng said the part of the trail was buried under huge rocks and debris after it collapsed during the temblor.

This screen grab from a video taken on April 6, 2024 and released by Hualien County Fire Dept shows a rescuer locating body of an earthquake victim with the help of Roger, an eight-year-old labrador

This screen grab from a video released by Hualien County Fire Dept shows a rescuer locating body of an earthquake victim with the help of Roger, an eight-year-old labrador (Hualien County Fire Dept “As for 4-foreigners, two of them are Australian-S"porean dual nationals, 1 Indian and one Canadian,” Hualien mayor Chen-Wei said.

3 bodies of other people who were missing in the national park have been recovered.

The family of the two S'porean passport holders has given the pair’s clothing items to rescuers in Taiwan to aid search with sniffer dogs, according to the Hualien County Fire Dept.

Anyday, another day pass by...

Days 9th earthquake. Another day pass by, it is missing the two S'porean Aus passport couple.
https://youtu.be/lLTSJ2dAtpY?si=q5Nn5JdSbZ592sXs

(11-04-2024, 10:50 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Days 9th earthquake. Another day pass by, it is missing the two S'porean Aus passport couple.
https://youtu.be/lLTSJ2dAtpY?si=q5Nn5JdSbZ592sXs

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(09-04-2024, 06:19 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: [ -> ]That photo was taken 20 mins before the quake. Rescue team also found a shoe near there.

https://news.ttv.com.tw/

https://youtu.be/uAlB7LnNXAk?si=9xzPGCBeInqaqxWD

(10-04-2024, 08:37 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Kaohsiung, April 9 (CNA) A Labrador retriever named Roger has captured the hearts of people in Taiwan after it recently helped locate the body of an individual killed while hiking the Shakadang Trail following a magnitude 7.2 temblor that struck off Taiwan's eastern coast on April 3.

The 8-year-old canine is a ranking officer who has served with the Kaohsiung Fire Bureau for the past five years, search and rescue team leader Chen Chih-san (陳志三) said Tuesday.
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404090022

SINGAPORE: When Ms Namrata Kohli heard that a Singaporean couple was missing at Taroko National Park amid a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan, her first thought was that it could have easily been her and her husband.

“It could have been us, I don’t know how it wasn’t us,” said the 39-year-old Employment Pass holder who has worked in Singapore for over six years at tech firm Meta

'We lived to tell a story': Couple trapped in tunnel for 24 hours after Taiwan earthquake
Ms Namrata Kohli and her husband were walking along a trail at Taroko National Park in Hualien when they felt the ground shake.

'We lived to tell a story': Couple trapped in tunnel for 24 hours after Taiwan earthquake
Left: Ms Namrata Kohli and her husband on a hike at Taroko National Park before the earthquake struck. Right: Survivors walking to safety in the aftermath of the earthquake. (Photos: Namrata Kohli)

11 Apr 2024...SINGAPORE: When Ms Namrata Kohli heard that a Singaporean couple was missing at Taroko National Park amid a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan, her first thought was that it could have easily been her and her husband.

“It could have been us, I don’t know how it wasn’t us,” said the 39-year-old Employment Pass holder who has worked in Singapore for over six years at tech firm Meta.

“I still hope and pray that they are brought out safely.” The news of the missing couple shook Ms Namrata as she and her husband were stuck in a tunnel at the same national park for 24 hours, caught in the middle of Taiwan’s worst earthquake in 25 years last Wednesday (Apr 3).

The couple had travelled to Taiwan on Mar 29 for what was supposed to be a 12-day trip. They visited the Shakadang Trail at the national park the day before the earthquake, which was where the Singaporean couple was last seen. On the day of the quake, Ms Namrata and her husband had driven from Hualien City to the Tunnel of Nine Turns at the park, to hike another trail there.

They parked the car at the tunnel and set off on the short trail through the mountainous terrain. It was on the way back from the trail, at about 8am, that the ground started to shake. “As the vibration started to gain momentum both of us just ran,” she said. “We both started to run as fast as we could, but then the rocks started to fall as well.”

One of the rocks hit her husband in the face, injuring his ear and cheek. They sought shelter in a small cave-like structure as rocks fell around them, and she could feel small rocks pelt her ankles and knees.

When the tremors subsided, they saw they were almost at the end of the trail, and so walked about 100m to their car parked in the tunnel.

Shaken but safely in the car, they assumed the next step would be to drive out of the national park and back to Hualien City, but they could not have been more wrong.

Left: Debris and rockfall at the mouth of the tunnel in the aftermath of the earthquake. Right: Ms Namrata Kohli's husband was injured on the cheek and ear during the earthquake. (Photos: Namrata Kohli)

TRAPPED IN A TUNNEL FOR 24 HOURS
Ms Namrata and her husband soon realised they were trapped in the tunnel. One end of the tunnel was still being pelted by a “drizzle” of rocks falling off the adjacent cliffs. On the other side was pitch darkness, with air dense with dust and particles stirred up from the quake. “We obviously realised we couldn't drive anywhere from here (so) we just sort of waited … I thought it was (just) the two of us,” she said.

But a few minutes later, some people walked towards them, who turned out to be staff at a hotel down the road. While they did not speak each other’s language, they managed to communicate sufficiently.

“I think locals there are taught from a young age what to do when an earthquake strikes. (They said) the tunnel is the safest place to be,” she said. “So they told us don't go anywhere … most likely, we were going to be there for some time.”

As the hours passed, more stranded hikers began to walk into the tunnel to seek refuge from the aftershocks and continued rockfall.😯🈶🈸😲 All in all, there were 18 people in the tunnel as day turned into night.

🇸🇬Soon, hunger and thirst began to set in — most of them only brought enough food for a hike, and these included snacks like granola bars and a bottle of water.

Taipei, April 10 (CNA) Bodies of two individuals were recovered & three additional bodies were discovered on Shakadang Trail in Taroko National Park, 1-wk after devastating earthquake in Hualien County, search & rescue personnel said, rescuers reported retrieved bodies, man & a girl, suspected to be father & daughter fm Yu (游) family, 0.5 k/m from entrance of the trail earlier on Wednesday.The rescue team added despite discovery of two bodies on April 5, they had been unable to retrieve them until Wednesday due to heavy equipment needed to lift the rocks.

Meanwhile, team said it discovered two more bodies around 3 p.m. at a depth of 3-5 meters, also located 0.5 kilometers from the trail entrance. It added that the two people had been hugging each other when they were killed. Rescuers said another body had been discovered nearby 5 p.m.The rescue team added that Dr two bodies retrieved & three bodies discovered on Wednesday were all believed to be members of the Yu family.Rescuers said the bodies would be sent to the Hualien funeral parlor.

Currently, a Singaporean couple are still missing in the area. Search and rescue personnel confirmed they were last seen near a large water pipe about 1.8 k/m from the trail entrance.

On Wednesday afternoon, six rescue workers and three dogs were dispatched to search the area, but no trace of the pair was discovered. As of Wednesday 6 p.m., earthquake has resulted in 16 deaths and left three people missing (two on the Shakadang Trail and one in the Chonghe mining area), as well as 1,155 individuals with injuries, according to the Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC).

The Ministry of Agriculture said as of Tuesday there had been 779 landslides covering a total area of 433.93 hectares since quake struck. However, there has been no significant movement in the large-scale landslide-prone areas surveillance since quake, the ministry said, adding that monitoring will continue....
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404100021

Please change your title to Singaporean couple with dual citizenship

This Sunday by early noon will find.

(12-04-2024, 05:41 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Taipei, April 10 (CNA) Bodies of two individuals were recovered & three additional bodies were discovered on Shakadang Trail in Taroko National Park, 1-wk after devastating earthquake in Hualien County, search & rescue personnel said, rescuers reported retrieved bodies, man & a girl, suspected to be father & daughter fm Yu (游) family, 0.5 k/m from entrance of the trail earlier on Wednesday.The rescue team added despite discovery of two bodies on April 5, they had been unable to retrieve them until Wednesday due to heavy equipment needed to lift the rocks.

Meanwhile, team said it discovered two more bodies around 3 p.m. at a depth of 3-5 meters, also located 0.5 kilometers from the trail entrance. It added that the two people had been hugging each other when they were killed. Rescuers said another body had been discovered nearby 5 p.m.The rescue team added that Dr two bodies retrieved & three bodies discovered on Wednesday were all believed to be members of the Yu family.Rescuers said the bodies would be sent to the Hualien funeral parlor.

Currently, a Singaporean couple are still missing in the area. Search and rescue personnel confirmed they were last seen near a large water pipe about 1.8 k/m from the trail entrance.

On Wednesday afternoon, six rescue workers and three dogs were dispatched to search the area, but no trace of the pair was discovered. As of Wednesday 6 p.m., earthquake has resulted in 16 deaths and left three people missing (two on the Shakadang Trail and one in the Chonghe mining area), as well as 1,155 individuals with injuries, according to the Central Emergency Operation Center (CEOC).

The Ministry of Agriculture said as of Tuesday there had been 779 landslides covering a total area of 433.93 hectares since quake struck. However, there has been no significant movement in the large-scale landslide-prone areas surveillance since quake, the ministry said, adding that monitoring will continue....
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404100021

Body of truck driver recovered, another day passed up...2 still missing after Hualien quake.

Body of truck driver recovered, 2 still missing after Hualien quake. An excavator removes the rocks that are piled on top of the body of a truck driver who went missing after the April 3 temblor. Hualien County Fire Dept (04/13/2024)

Taipei, April 13. On the 11th day after the eastern county of Hualien was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, search rescue workers recovered the body of a truck driver Saturday morning, with two other people still listed as missing.

The body of the truck driver was found in a quarry in the Ho Jen mining area of Hsiulin Township in Hualien at 11:45 a.m. Saturday.

After days of effort using heavy machinery to clear blocked routes, a search and rescue team reached the area where the body was recovered on Friday, an officer from Hualien County Fire Department said.

On Saturday, the team used the machinery to dig five meters down and found sandbags and the front of a white pickup truck, which was later identified by the employer as the vehicle driven by the missing driver, according to the officer.

The driver's body was recovered after the search and rescue team dug further, the officer added.

Meanwhile, a Singaporean couple believed to have been hiking Shakadang Trail when the earthquake struck remain unaccounted for.

The search is ongoing, with a search team entering the Shakadang waterfall area 2.4 kilometers from the start of the trail on Saturday morning.

With the confirmation of the driver's death, the official death toll from the Hualien earthquake on April 3 has risen to 17.
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202404130009

KMT-backed candidates win 5 of 6 by-elections.
Taipei, April 14 (CNA) Candidates belonging to or supported by the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) won five of six by-elections held across Taiwan on Saturday, in what the party touted as a pre-inauguration rebuke of President-elect Lai Ching-te (賴清德).

The special elections were held to fill vacant political offices across the country, including the mayorship of Miaoli City, township chief positions in Taitung's Dawu Township, as well as Yunlin's Huwei and Mailiao townships, the 4th district seat in Yilan's county council and the 15th district seat on Taichung's city council.

Of those, KMT candidates scored victories in Miaoli, Taitung and Taichung, while independent candidates supported by the KMT won in Yilan and Yunlin's Huwei Township.

In the remaining race, in Yunlin's Mailiao Township, DPP member Hsu Chung-fu (許忠富) sailed to an easy victory running as an independent.

Hsu Yu-chen (許宇甄), chair of the KMT's Organizational Development Committee, said the results served as a reminder to Lai ahead of his May 20 inauguration that "the public's dissatisfaction with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is ongoing."

Specifically, Hsu slammed Lai for "disappointing" Cabinet selections that suggest a lack of interest in working across the aisle, and warned that the president-elect must "change course" and modestly "face up to the new public opinion."

Meanwhile, DPP spokesman Wu Cheng (吳崢) said a variety of factors, including low turnout, were behind the party's losses on Saturday.

Wu said that moving forward, the DPP remains committed to developing talent and deepening its connections at the local level, as it works to regain the public's trust ahead of Taiwan's 2026 local elections.
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202404140003

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They're gone.

Rest in peace 🕊️ 🕊️.

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