Storm drenches China with heavy rains A storm drenched China's southeast on Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, officials said. In Vietnam, the death toll from a separate storm rose to 55. Taiwan zoo to reapply for Chinese pandas A Taiwan theme park will reapply this spring to bring over from China a pair of giant pandas that the island government rejected last year amid political tensions, a park manager said on Sunday. Taiwan high-speed rail steams toward Xmas launch A super-fast rail line, the world's second to use ground-breaking Japanese bullet train technology, is steering toward a year-end service launch in Taiwan after years of delays.
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