Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/24
By: Pan Tzi-yu and Ko Lin 

Taipei, Aug. 24 (CNA) Torrential rain over the past 24 hours has caused NT$53.48 million (US$1.74 million) in agricultural losses and damage to 157 schools around Taiwan worth an estimated NT$18.06 million as Friday, according to statistics from the Council of Agriculture (COA) and the Ministry of Education.

Chiayi County accounted for an estimated 74 percent of the agricultural losses, followed by Kaohsiung (11 percent) and Yunlin County (6 percent), according to the COA.

The figure is expected to rise as water was still receding in many places in southern Taiwan, the COA indicated.

Kaohsiung, which has been heavily battered by the heavy rains brought by a tropical depression, had the most schools damaged in the storm at 51 and the greatest amount of damage at NT$8.86 million.    [FULL  STORY]