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Taiwan Maintains Sea Warning as Typhoon Tembin Returns

By Tim Culpan
August 26, 2012

Taiwan maintained a sea warning as Typhoon Tembin reapproached after already passing through, the Central Weather Bureau said on its website today.

Tembin was centered 430 kilometers west-southwest of Taiwan’s southern tip at 11:00 p.m. local time today, heading east and shifting to east-northeast at 6 kilometers to 12 kilometers per hour, it said.

Meteorology officials lifted a land warning yesterday. Agricultural damage in Taiwan from Tembin exceeded NT$168 million as of 10 a.m. today, the Council of Agriculture said on its website.

To contact the reporter on this story: Tim Culpan in Taipei at tculpan1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dick Schumacher at dschumacher@bloomberg.net

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