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* North of Taiwan should be confronted with Maria's strength
* Scores of canceled flights, premature closure of companies
* Meteorological Bureau prevents landslides, sudden floods (Add Cathay Pacific flights canceled , paragraph 6) [19659002TAIPEI10Julary(Reuters)-Taiwans'ispreparedforMariamardbytheMariamardwhichaircraftsareawantedflightsandthatthesummarybureauwasdeferredonthefrainingglobalandinhumaninfluencesontheIndustrializedIsland
The northern region of Taiwan is the most affected, as it moves west-northwest 30 km / yr. h, from 490 km to the east of Yilan County.
Troops have been deployed in some areas, with heavy rains and winds expected in early Wednesday. Fishermen in Keelung City tied up boats during the storm
The government ordered the early closure of schools and businesses, although it has not yet decided to close the financial markets, businesses and schools Wednesday. ] China Airlines and Eva Airways, the two largest carriers in Taiwan, canceled dozens of flights and warned that more than a dozen flights had been canceled.
Taiwan is frequently struck by typhoons during the summer, but it has stepped up its preparations to guard against them since Typhoon Morakot devastated the island in 2009.
Morakot was the Taiwan's most deadly typhoon people, most of them in landslides. (Report by Jess Macy Yu in Taipei, Additional Report by Trista Shi and Maggie Liu in HONG KONG, edited by Anne Marie Roantree, edited by Clarence Fernandez)
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