2006_12_26
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/asia.quake.ap/index.html
Victor G. Hernandez wrote:
>How recent are these news and why hasn't CNN aired any programs?
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>From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Seymour
>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:25 AM
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>Subject: [TN] Friday - Article Taiwan Earthquake Paralyzes Asian
>Communication
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>Catapult has an office in China that is having trouble with
>email. See article below. Interesting Reading.
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>Taiwan Earthquake Paralyzes Asian Communication
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>Taiwan Earthquake Brings Bank Operations to a Halt
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>An earthquake in southern Taiwan on Tuesday night damaged
>an undersea optic cable, causing serious disruptions to
>international phone lines and Internet connections in
>Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
>The earthquake estimated at 7.1 magnitude by the U.S.
>Geological Survey shook the ocean floor 23 km southwest of
>Hengchun, southern Taiwan at 9:26 p.m. on Tuesday. At
>least six undersea optic cables connecting Korea, China
>and Japan, Hong Kong and Macau, and mainland China, Hong
>Kong, the U.S. and Europe were cut off, causing
>communications interruptions on Wednesday.
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>Taipei residents walks in front of Chunghua Telecom's
>headquarters on Wednesday in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan's
>telephone communications with neighboring Asian countries
>were cut off Wednesday, hours after a powerful earthquake
>struck the southern part of the island, killing two.
>Chunghwa Telecom said an undersea cable off the southern
>coast had been damaged, interrupting communications with
>Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong.
>Communications with China were also cut off, because calls
>to the mainland from Taiwan are routed through Hong
>Kong./AP
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>Taiwan was the worst affected. Chunghwa Telecom said 60
>percent of the phone lines to the U.S. were cut off and 98
>percent of communication linking Taiwan with Malaysia and
>Singapore suffered disruptions. The company forecast it
>will take two to three weeks for the nation to completely
>repair the damaged cables. The earthquake also disrupted
>1,400 phone lines and 84 international phone lines of
>Japanese telecom firm NTT, making it impossible to call
>Southeast Asia from Japan.
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>A customer at HSBC's branch in Apgujeong, Seoul reads a
>notice on the bank's out-of-service ATM on Wednesday
>afternoon after a powerful earthquake hit Taiwan and
>disrupted the bank's overseas servers./Yonhap
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>In China, the earthquake temporarily blocked access to
>major foreign websites and caused partial disruptions to
>phone calls to Taiwan and Hong Kong. Korea Telecom said a
>total of 9,985 communications lines were damaged including
>9,871 ordinary call lines, 92 dedicated lines and 33
>Internet lines as six undersea cables connecting Korea and
>Taiwan were damaged. Citibank Korea and domestic offices
>of HSBC and Bank of America, whose servers are located
>overseas, had to stop ATM and online banking services.
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