Taipei Halts Trading, Shuts Offices as Typhoon Khanun Nears
- Several northern cities close schools, government offices
- Typhoon comes a week after another storm closed parts of south
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Taiwan shut its financial markets Thursday with Typhoon Khanun forecast to bring torrential rain to much of the northern coast as it sweeps past the island.
Offices and schools were closed across much of northern Taiwan with local governments bracing for the periphery of the typhoon to dump heavy rain on Taipei, Keelung and Yilan County. There were no reports of major damage as of 10:30pm Wednesday, according to a statement from Taiwan’s Central Emergency Operation Center.