President Tsai toured flood-ravaged Chiayi County Saturday
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/25
By: Matthew Strong,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Just because extreme rain caused massive flooding in Southern
President Tsai (in dark coat, right) talked to victims of flooding in Chiayi County Saturday. (By Central News Agency)
Taiwan did not mean that past water management efforts were useless, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Saturday during a tour of the ravaged areas.
A tropical depression passed over Southern Taiwan Thursday and Friday with results drawing comparisons to some of the worst typhoons in the country’s history. At least one person was reported dead, with hundreds of houses flooded and thousands of people evacuated from their homes. Premier William Lai (賴清德), who served as mayor of Tainan City until last year, was criticized by the opposition.
However, President Tsai noted in a statement on her Facebook page that the extreme precipitation of the past few days should not give the impression that years of anti-flooding and water management efforts had been for nothing.
Tsai visited some of the worst-afflicted regions Saturday, including Chiayi County, the Central News Agency reported. [FULL STORY]
