Kaohsiung retail workers raised safety concerns after major department stores remained open during the city’s second consecutive heavy-rain closure.

Kaohsiung is discussing a roughly NT$1 billion floodgate and pumping station for Cieding after heavy rain and high tide blocked local drainage.

Southern Taiwan entered a fifth day of recurring heavy rain Monday, with coastal flooding in Kaohsiung, reduced transport services and continued landslide warnings.

Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung will suspend work and classes on Monday, Aug. 24, as heavy rain continues across southern Taiwan.

A telecom fault sent a Jiasian landslide warning beyond its intended area as heavy rain closed mountain roads in Kaohsiung.

Muddy flooding returned to Gushan 3rd Road as residents and politicians questioned years of flood-control spending in the area.

Ko Chih-en toured pumping stations and flooded neighborhoods as prolonged rainfall strained drainage systems across Kaohsiung.

Major semiconductor and technology projects are expanding employment in Kaohsiung, but demographic losses and a smaller startup ecosystem complicate the city’s transformation.

Heavy rain flooded roads across Kaohsiung, caused five reported motorcycle crashes in Nanzih and prompted the closure of a section of Provincial Highway 27.

Construction of Gangshan’s planned second National Freeway 1 interchange could begin in September, with the NT$4.38 billion project intended to relieve traffic serving northern Kaohsiung’s industrial areas.