China Evacuates Thousands as Typhoon Skirts Coast
Date: 10-Jul-06
Country: CHINA
Evacuations were also under way in other cities of Zhejiang province, including Taizhou, Zhoushan and Wenzhou, Xinhua news agency said.
More than 8,000 ships had returned to harbour in Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and Zhoushan.
Typhoon Ewiniar was heading almost due north and was expected to make landfall on the Korean peninsula on Monday, the Hong Kong Observatory said on Saturday night.