After wreaking havoc across the Philippines, Typhoon Fung-Wong is due to make landfall in Taiwan. Photo: EPA PHOTO

Taiwan has evacuated more than 3000 people, issuing a land warning for the arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong, which is expected to dump large volumes of rain on its mountainous east coast, recently lashed by another typhoon.

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The weakening Fung-wong is forecast to hit land on Wednesday on the island's southwestern coast around the major port of Kaohsiung, after it killed 18 people while powering through the Philippines as a much stronger system.

"Fung-wong may have been down

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