Taiwan confirms 543 dead, 117 missing after typhoon

ေအအက္ဖ္ပီ ထိုင္ေပ သတင္းတပုဒ္ရဲ႕ ေဖၚျပခ်က္အရ ၾကာသပေတးေန႕က ထိုင္ဝမ္မွာ တိုင္ဖြန္းမုန္တိုင္း Morakot ေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုးသူဦးေရဟာ ၅၄၃ ေယာက္အထိရွိသြားၿပီျဖစ္ၿပီး ၁၁၇ ေယာက္ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနဆဲျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

ထိုင္ဝမ္ကၽြန္းရဲ႕သမိုင္းမွာ အဆိုးရြားဆံုး ေရႀကီးမႈေတြျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတဲ့အေၾကာင္း၊ ကၽြန္းေတာင္ဘက္ပိုင္းမွာရွိတဲ့ Hsiaolin တစ္ခုထဲမွာဘဲ ၃၉၇ ေယာက္ေသဆံုးခဲ့ၾကရၿပီး ၅၃ ေယာက္ကေတာ့ အခုထိ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနဆဲျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

Morakot တိုင္ဖြန္းမုန္တိုင္းတိုက္ခတ္ခဲ့စဥ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၈ ရက္ေန႕ တစ္ရက္ထဲမွာဘဲ မိုးေရခ်ိန္ ၃ မီတာ (၁၁၈ လက္မ) ရြာသြန္းခဲ့တာေၾကာင့္အိမ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ၊ တံတားႀကီး ဒါဇင္နဲ႕ခ်ိန္ၿပီး ပ်က္စီးခဲ့ရသလို လမ္းမႀကီးေတြလဲ ရာနဲ႕ခ်ီၿပီး ပ်က္စီးခဲ့ရေၾကာင္းသိရပါတယ္။

ထိုင္ဝမ္သမၼတ Ma Ying-jeou က ၊ တိုင္ဖြန္းမုန္တိုင္း Morakot ဟာ ၁၉၅၉ ခုႏွစ္က တိုက္ခတ္ခဲ့ၿပီး လူေပါင္း ၆၆၇ ေယာက္အသက္ဆံုးရႈံးခဲ့ရကာ ၁ဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနဆဲျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ တိုင္ဖြန္းမုန္တိုင္း ထက္ ပိုမိုႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ခန္႕မွန္းေျပာၾကာခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ထိုင္ဝမ္ကၽြန္းရဲ႕ သဘာဝေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ေတြထဲမွာ ၁၉၉၉ ခုႏွစ္က ရစ္ခ်္တာစေကး ၇.၆ ျပင္းအားရွိတဲ့ ငလွ်င္ႀကီးေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္း ၂၄ဝဝ ေက်ာ္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရဘူးပါတယ္။ အခုတိုင္ဖြန္း morakot ေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္စီးဆံုးရႈံးသြားခဲ့ရတာေတြကို ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြမွာ သံုးစြဲဘို႕ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၃.၆၅ ဘီလီယံ ခန္႕(ထိုင္ဝမ္ေဒၚလာ – ၁၂ဝ ဘီလီယံ) ကုန္က်ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္းအတည္ျပဳခဲ့တယ္လို႕ ၾကားသိရေၾကာင္း တင္ျပလိုက္ရပါတယ္။

Typhoon disrupts Asia Internet, telephone service

ထိုင္ဝမ္တယ္လီဖုန္းကုမၸဏီတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ Chunghwa Telecom ရဲ႕ သတင္းတစ္ပုဒ္မွာ တိုင္ဖြန္းမုန္တိုင္း Morakot ေၾကာင့္ Bashi ေရလက္ၾကားမွာရွိတဲ့ ပင္လယ္ ေရေအာက္ ေကဘယ္ ၇ ႀကိဳးျပတ္ေတာက္သြားတာေၾကာင့္ အင္တာနက္/တယ္လီဖုန္းအဆက္အသြယ္ေတြ ေႏွးေကြးသြားရေၾကာင္း ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႕က ေၾကျငာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ Voice calls and Internet data traffic ေတြကိုေတာ့ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ေသာၾကာေန႕ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႕က ျပန္ရ ၿပီလို႕ ေျပာပါတယ္။

တစ္ခ်ိန္ထဲမွာဘဲ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ငံက Tele-communication ကုမၸဏီႀကီး ၂ ခု Long Distance Telephone Co. and Globe Telecom Inc. ကလည္း အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ တယ္လီဖုန္းေခၚဆိုမႈမ်ားနဲ႕ Broadband services ေတြ တခ်ဳိ႕တဝက္ ရပ္ဆိုင္းသြားေၾကာင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႕ကတည္းက စၿပီး တရုတ္ျပည္၊ ေဟာင္ေကာင္၊ ဂ်ပန္၊ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား၊ ထိုင္ဝမ္၊ မေလးရွား၊ စကၤာပူနဲ႕ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ငံေတြကို ဆက္သြယ္ထားတဲ့ ပင္လယ္ေရေအာက္ ေကဘယ္ေတြ မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ျပတ္ေတာက္သြားခဲ့တာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အတည္ျပဳေျပာဆိုခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Chen Hui-yen ဆိုသူ Chunghwa Telecom ရဲ႕ အရာရွိတစ္ဦးက မျပတ္ေတာက္ပဲ က်န္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေကဘယ္အခ်ိဳ႕နဲ႕ ေျပာင္းလဲ အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္ခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္ အင္တာနက္သံုးစြဲမႈနဲ႕ voice call ေတြကို ေကဘယ္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းေျပာင္းအသံုးျပဳႏိုင္ေအာင္စီစဥ္ေပးခဲ့တဲ့အေၾကာင္း အခုလိုရွင္းျပခဲ့ပါတယ္ … Chen Hui-yen, an official at Chungwa, said the disruption to communications had been contained as Internet traffic and voice calls were rerouted to other cable networks. Most international Internet data and telephone calls are transmitted as pulses of light via undersea fiber-optic cables that crisscross the globe. Many cables have “redundancy” — a technical term that means having a backup cable that takes over if the main cable is damaged or completely fails….

စကၤာပူႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွက အႀကီးဆံုး Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. ကုမၸဏီကေတာ့ အျခား ေကဘယ္ စံနစ္ေတြနဲ႕ေျပာင္းလဲ အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္မႈေၾကာင့္ သူ႕ရဲ႕ တယ္လီဖုန္းဆက္သြယ္မႈစံနစ္ ၉၅% ကို ျပန္လည္အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္ၿပီလို႕ ဆိုပါတယ္။

Undersea Internet Cables Undergoing Repairs After Typhoon Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
Aug 14, 2009 3:20 pm

Some undersea fiber-optic cables that carry Internet and communications traffic to parts of Southeast Asia and China have already been repaired while officials continue to assess damage to others, a spokesperson for Chunghwa Telecom said Friday.

Six of the important fiber-optic cables were damaged by undersea landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot as it passed Taiwan. One was knocked out on Aug. 9 as Morakot hit the east coast of the island and the others were damaged after the typhoon passed to the other side.

The damaged cables disrupted Internet and telecommunications between Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and parts of Southeast Asia, including Singapore and the Philippines. However, Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan restored service quickly by using backup systems and rerouting traffic to other cables.

The APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network, number two) was damaged in at least two places, said Chen Hui-yen, a deputy director at Chunghwa’s network management division. One part, which runs between Singapore and Malaysia, was fixed Friday morning, she said, while a portion of the cable near Taiwan has not been repaired yet, although a team has been dispatched to the location.

She did not know the cause of the problem with the cable section between Singapore and Malaysia. She said some voice traffic and Internet traffic has been affected by the outages but rerouting has alleviated most problems.

The five other undersea cables damaged near Taiwan by Morakot were the SWM-3 (Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 3), the APCN (Asia Pacific Cable Network), C2C Cable Network East Asia Crossing (EAC), C2C Cable Network (C2C) and FLAG (Fiber Optic Link Around The Globe) North Asia Loop (FNAL).

One factor complicating repairs of the undersea cables has been trying to coordinate the various groups invested in the cables, she said. She was unable to offer a time frame for when cable repairs might be completed.

Undersea fiber optic cables carry the bulk of the world’s Internet and communications traffic. Natural disasters such as earthquakes and deep sea landslides can disrupt the cables.

Typhoon Morakot was originally welcomed by people in Taiwan as a potential savior for a drought that had been affecting much of the tropical island. Some cities, including the old southern capital of Tainan and the norther port city of Keelung, had already imposed water restrictions. But Morakot brought far more rain than expected, causing massive floods and landslides on the island.

The presidential office said the rains from Morakot were the heaviest in 50 years.

Typhoon Morakot has been blamed for the deaths of 116 people in Taiwan, according to government figures, and officials expect the toll to continue rising. Rescue workers believe over 300 people in one village, Hsiaolin, may have been buried alive in a massive landslide of mud and debris.

Rescue workers saved 2,200 people stranded by landslides and washed out roads and bridges in mountain villages near the southern city of Kaohsiung on Thursday. Thousands remain stranded in disaster areas and rescue work continues.

Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture estimates the typhoon destroyed NT$10.67 billion (US$324.3 million) of crops and other goods, including tens of thousands of livestock such as pigs, chickens and ducks.

Undersea Internet Cables Undergoing Repairs After Typhoon
Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
Aug 14, 2009 3:20 pm