TAIPEI: Taiwan cancelled more than 100 flights and shut schools and offices on Thursday as the island braced for a direct hit from Super Typhoon Nepartak, the first major tropical storm of the season.
The typhoon was packing gusts of up to 245 kilometers an hour (152 miles an hour) as it rumbled towards the eastern counties of Hualien and Taitung, where it is expected to make landfall early Friday, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau.
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