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9 fishermen missing in SE China as typhoon Morakot nears

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-08 05:48

Members of the Fujian border police hand over the supplies to crew members of a ship from Taiwan at Shacheng port in Ningde of southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 7, 2009. Led by a ship sent by the Fujian border police, two ships from Taiwan arrived at a port in Ningde safely on Friday as typhoon Morakot nears. [Xinhua]

Workers building the world's highest power transmission tower on Damaoshan Island in east China's Zhejiang province stopped working Friday, and took shelter.

"The company has prepared food and water enough for four days," said Peng Lixin, the project manager.

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He said that the building of the 370-meter tower had entered the final stage. Typhoon Morakot would test the construction.

The island has no fresh water supply.

Other Chinese regions, including Shanghai and Anhui, will have more rainfall because of the impact of the typhoon. In Shanghai, the municipal weather service forecast Friday that the city would be hit by stormy weather from Saturday to Tuesday, and the average rainfall would be 90 mm.

Anhui Provincial Land and Resource Department has warned areas around Mount. Dabie in the province's southwestern part against potential landslides, rock and mud flows inflicted by excessive rains.

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